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How To Make Students Better Online Researchers

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I recently came across an article in Wired Magazine called "Why Kids Can't Search".
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In a Rush to Modernize, MySpace Destroyed More History

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By Ian Milligan In 1963, despite community opposition, New York City's Pennsylvania Station was torn down. It was an age of modernism, old being wiped away for new. Afterwards, some of the sails we...
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Stephen King's Green Frog: 5 Things I Learned from On Writing

Stephen King's Green Frog: 5 Things I Learned from On Writing | Digital  Humanities Tool Box | Scoop.it
I drove by Stephen King’s house today to take a picture of his frog.  It’s about three feet tall and a blue-green color.  The sculpture, in the corner of King’s front lawn near a cluster of small s...
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Geography of tweets

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Academic Clean Sweep

Academic Clean Sweep | Digital  Humanities Tool Box | Scoop.it
Over the course of the semester I acquire tons of paper. I have stacks on the kitchen table, on my nightstand, even in my car.  The stacks live at home with me. I dust the stacks on Saturday mornin...
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Challenges of Blended Learning in the Humanities: Ancient Greek

Earlier this week, I received a query about available resources for teaching Ancient Greek online that would enable a hybrid or blended approach to teaching beginning Greek.  My experience tracking...
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Cambios imprescindibles en el modelo de aprendizaje, por la emergencia de un nuevo paradigma social  resultado de cambios tecnológicos

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A quarter century of satellite imagery

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What if people told European history like they told Native American history?

The first immigrants to Europe arrived thousands of years ago from central Asia. Most pre-contact Europeans lived together in small villages. Because the continent was very crowded, their lives wer...
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Geography of hate against gays, races, and the disabled

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How long is the average dissertation?

How long is the average dissertation? | Digital  Humanities Tool Box | Scoop.it
The best part about writing a dissertation is finding clever ways to procrastinate. The motivation for this blog comes from one of the more creative ways I've found to keep myself from writing. I'v...
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Eat Your Primary Sources! Or, Teaching the Taste of History

Eat Your Primary Sources! Or, Teaching the Taste of History | Digital  Humanities Tool Box | Scoop.it
By Ian Mosby History has a distinct taste. Actually, it also has a distinct smell, feel, sound, and look to it but – as a historian of food and nutrition – I always find myself coming back to the t...
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A Stop-Motion History of Typography | Design on GOOD

A Stop-Motion History of Typography | Design on GOOD | Digital  Humanities Tool Box | Scoop.it
Nice way to learn about the history of typography. The animation was made from 261 handcut letters and 2,454 photographs.
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Teaching Composition with Interactive Fiction - TECHStyle

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Oh the Places You'll Go: 38,000 Historical Maps to Explore at New Online Library

Oh the Places You'll Go: 38,000 Historical Maps to Explore at New Online Library | Digital  Humanities Tool Box | Scoop.it
The Digital Public Library of America announces the addition of a vast treasure trove of maps.
Leoncio Lopez-Ocon's curator insight, May 3, 8:21 AM

la magnífica colección de 38 mil mapas digitalizados de David Rumsey accesible en la Digital Public Libray of America

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The Unlikely Evolution Of The @ Symbol

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For a moment, let’s not think about the @ symbol in the way we usually think of it, as the fulcrum of an email address, the navel connecting us to our Twitter handles, or even just the weird a hanging out above the 2 key.Let’s imagine it instead...
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Sapping Attention: Some long term perspective on the "crisis" in humanities enrollment

Sapping Attention: Some long term perspective on the "crisis" in humanities enrollment | Digital  Humanities Tool Box | Scoop.it
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What does Canadian History look like? A Peek Inside the Canadian Historical Association

What does Canadian History look like? A Peek Inside the Canadian Historical Association | Digital  Humanities Tool Box | Scoop.it
Tom Peace puts this year's CHA program to the test, comparing this year's annual meeting with those held over the past decade.
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Mapping the world’s writing systems. Also see this...

Mapping the world’s writing systems. Also see this... | Digital  Humanities Tool Box | Scoop.it
Mapping the world’s writing systems. Also see this visual history of how sounds became shapes and this short animation on who invented writing.
Will Gourley's curator insight, May 26, 8:22 PM

I feel like a kid in the candy store when I get to visit websites like this. I do not have a problem. I can quit anytime. I just don't want to. That'sall.

Worth bookmarking and sharing with students.

Intriguing Networks's curator insight, May 27, 7:02 AM

nice resource

Leoncio Lopez-Ocon's curator insight, May 27, 2:09 PM

Recurso para visualizar los sistemas de escritura de la población mundial

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Books That Shaped America | National Book Festival - Library of Congress

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Open Thread: The Digital Humanities as a Historical "Refuge" from Race/Class/Gender/Sexuality/Disability?

Open Thread: The Digital Humanities as a Historical "Refuge" from Race/Class/Gender/Sexuality/Disability? | Digital  Humanities Tool Box | Scoop.it
Read David Golumbia's post on the "Dark Side of the Digital" conference yesterday? Consider this: In 2007, Martha Nell Smith observed: When I first started attending humanities computing conference...
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7 Habits Of Highly-Effective Teachers Who Effectively Use Technology

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7 Habits Of Highly-Effective Teachers Who Effectively Use Technology
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Fifty Digital Preservation Activities You Can Do | The Signal: Digital Preservation

Fifty Digital Preservation Activities You Can Do | The Signal: Digital Preservation | Digital  Humanities Tool Box | Scoop.it
Fifty Digital Preservation Activities You Can Do. A blog post at "The Signal: Digital Preservation" on 2013-05-09.
Leoncio Lopez-Ocon's curator insight, May 12, 8:25 AM

El entusiasmo de los bibliotecarios y archiveros norteamericanos de la Library of Congress en la gestión digital del patrimonio cultural

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The Jeffers Petroglyphs: Historical Treasure in an Unexpected Place

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by Jack El-Hai, Wonders & Marvels contributor The Upper Midwest of the U.S. is not well known for its archaeological treasures, and it’s easy to see why.
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How to Use Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool: Adrianne Wadewitz | DMLcentral

How to Use Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool: Adrianne Wadewitz | DMLcentral | Digital  Humanities Tool Box | Scoop.it
  Wikipedia is often not thought of as a platform for pedagogy, since so many teachers explicitly tell their students to steer clear of the site as a source of information.  However, as a site for learner-driven inquiry and informal education, it ...
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Online Ojibwe Dictionary Launched - University of Minnesota - NativeNewsNetwork

Online Ojibwe Dictionary Launched - University of Minnesota - NativeNewsNetwork | Digital  Humanities Tool Box | Scoop.it
MINNEAPOLIS ST. PAUL access to an online Ojibwe-English dictionary. The University of Minnesota Department of American Indian Studies launched a groundbreaking online Ojibwe dictionary
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How historical figures would have looked today - Telegraph

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A team of digital artists spent three months updating a series of classic portraits for a new TV Series Secret Life on Yesterday.
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