This week I commented on the following classmates’ blogs: Megan Richard
As I’ve read the book and watched the video for this week’s assignment (scroll to February 13), I’ve been dividing my attention: I’ve succumbed to the temptation of continually modifying my portfolio site, based on the inspiration and new skills that the
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Is live. You can see it at: https://davidmckenzie.info/portfolio (link updated 2-7-12). Here is the assignment. It’s still very preliminary, so any suggestions are most appreciated. I’m sure it will change through the semester as I learn more about, you know, how to
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As I began to read for this week’s assignment, a book I had ordered arrived from Amazon. It’s the third edition of John Trimble‘s Writing with Style. If you haven’t used this book, it’s a great one. I had the first version
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A Museum Studies classmate turned exhibition design firm colleague once remarked that she pursued design as a career because it combined her interest in art with an appreciation for engineering inherited from her engineer father. This is the best definition I’ve heard
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It makes me sad to say that this is my last blog post for Clio Wired I. I have learned a great deal, and really enjoyed learning both the bigger picture of digital history, and some hands-on skills with it. So, we
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This week’s readings (Week 13) focused on the interrelated, sometimes opposed, issues of copyright and open access in scholarly (and other) communication. I greatly enjoyed all of the readings, but the one that resonated with me most was Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture.
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This week’s readings (Week 12) focused on what can broadly be called “citizen history” or “crowdsourcing”–inviting public participation in the process of creating knowledge, not just waiting to receive the end product. The four articles, Roy Rosenzweig on Wikipedia, Jeff Howe’s Wired
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Of this week’s readings, I found Martyn Jessop’s “Digital Visualization as a Scholarly Activity” [PDF] particularly interesting, as it got me thinking about other class discussions we’ve had about the nature of scholarship, and particularly what counts as scholarship. This article discusses
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This week’s readings (scroll to Week 10) concerned using digital technology to “read” texts in different ways. I use the term “read” in quotation marks to draw attention to it, as this is not what many of us colloquially call reading–that is,
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