On January 16 the American Historical Association and the Center for History and New Media announced the Roy Rosenzweig Prize in History and New Media. The prize will be awarded annually for an innovative and freely available new media project that reflects thoughtful, critical, and rigorous engagement with technology and the practice of history. I…
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Size Matters
The rise of the small and very inexpensive laptop is the subject of the most recent edition of the Digital Campus podcast that went up online today. Tom, Dan, and I discussed the One Laptop Per Child project and what its small and cheap laptops–as well as other small and cheap laptops–might mean for higher…
At the AHA (Friday afternoon)
My Friday afternoon session at the AHA annual meeting was much more productive, largely because it was more focused on things Russian and East European. That meant the audience was there to learn about content resources rather than about “tech tools” as in my morning session. Steve Barnes presented his Gulag project, which is now close to done. There was a…
At the AHA (Friday morning)
My Friday morning session at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association started badly and ended well. The six of us who were to present had a bit of a misunderstanding about the format, not realizing that it was to be a “digital poster session.” Once we figured that out (and the hotel managed to get a router in…