Digital Campus, the podcast I do with Dan Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt, is officially one year-old this week. Our 23rd episode is up and available for your listening pleasure and all three of us are pretty happy to have made it through a whole year of podcasting. Given how busy we all are, I’m particularly…
Tag: Student Work
To Read or Not to Read?
Episode 21 of our Digital Campus podcast is now up and ready for download. In this episode, Dan, Tom, and I take on the question of the future of reading in a digital world. Actually, Dan, Tom, Sunil Iyengar of the National Endowment for the Arts and Matt Kirschenbaum of the University of Maryland take…
AHA Talks January 2008
I recorded two of my talks at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington, D.C., January 2008. The first one is the presentation I gave at the pre-conference workshop on the intersection of teaching, research, and new media. The second one was a presentation about the 1989 project that we are working…
When Google Gets it Wrong
One of my colleagues, Mark Stoneman, recently wrote an interesting post in his blog Clio and Me on what happens when Google gets it wrong–or, more correctly, when Google users don’t think carefully about the results they get from their search query. The example that Mark cites is depressingly familiar. Someone with a historical question…