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Tag: Academic Commons

Back to School at Digital Campus

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Mills

Digital Campus has gone back to school at last. Episode 31 of our podcast is now up and available for your listening enjoyment. Among the topics Dan, Tom, and I discussed in this episode are the launch of Google’s Chrome browser and what this might mean for higher education and, most importantly, what trends in…

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Flickr Commons Expands

Posted on September 7, 2008 by Mills

[NB: This post originally appeared on the blog hist.net.] The photosharing website Flickr has expanded its “Commons” project. I wrote about the first iteration several months ago describing the decision by the American Library of Congress to allow the public to start marking up images from their collection. Since that time, Flickr (owned by Yahoo!)…

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A Crisis of Diminishing Expectations (cont’d)

Posted on September 6, 2008September 6, 2008 by Mills

On Thursday I wrote about a comment I’ve received from many students over the years that spoke to their declining expectations from history classes and the need to rethink what we’re doing to make history courses more appealing, more fun, while remaining rigorous and true to our discipline. I set myself the task of thinking…

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Should Grants Count?

Posted on September 5, 2008 by Mills

Not long ago I wrote a series of posts about digital scholarship and whether or not digital work should “count” in the classic sense of counting on American college campuses, i.e., for promotion and tenure. Because digital scholarship is very difficult to pull off without external funding, it’s a reasonable question whether or not writing…

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