Endless Hybrids

Endless Hybrids: work as a journey of creativity

  • Remarks to VICULA on DH

    The following is a draft of remarks I gave to a meeting of VICULA (Virginia Independent College and University Library Association) today at its meeting at Washington and Lee. I don’t read my talks directly from a script, so what I actually said varies but this represents the heart of it. I’m going to give […]

  • Digital history course project

    In the second class of the digital history course. We focused on working with data, which is the largest part of the course project. We started by reviewing two readings involving our case study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership. Appendices 1 & 2 of the book about that project provide insights into prosopography and database development. […]

  • Creativity and Code

    The third class of multimedia storytelling design is focused on what I call creativity and code. Continuing the focus on Snow Fall, the class reading for today is How We Made Snow Fall. That last link is a really good article, worth reading closely. Creative thoughts from the how Snow Fall is made article: Making a […]

  • The simplicity of the web

    The second class of multimedia storytelling design is focused on what I call the simplicity of the web. My advancing age, almost 50, gives me the advantage of having witnessed the evolution of the web from a text-based browser to the apparent complexity of modern web sites. I encourage those learning the web to break […]

  • A new course: multimedia storytelling design

    This morning starts the first class of a new course on multimedia storytelling design that I’m co-teaching with Professor Toni Locy of our journalism department.  The subtitle of the course is “How’d They Do that?” The benefit of co-teaching with a journalist is that the copywriting is great! Here’s the course description: Have you ever wondered […]

  • Prepping for the digital history class

    This afternoon I’m teaching the first class on Digital History taught at Washington and Lee University. This is a one-credit class that is part of our DH Studio series, which is a set of one-credit lab courses for the humanities. I’m not a historian. I’m a librarian. I’m a technologist. And I’m fairly confident in […]

  • Digital storytelling: past and present

    For the last 15 years I’ve been on this path: exploring the intersection of databases and narrative. Stories have always attracted me as the ideal form for understanding life, both present and the past. Perhaps more importantly, I have envisioned my future as a series of stories that I’ve told myself. I’m fascinated with how […]

  • Models of digital humanities/digital scholarship

    These are my notes for my brief talk at Iliads 2015 panel on models of digital humanities/digital scholarship. Over the last three years a group of faculty, librarians, and IT staff at Washington and Lee have met regularly to explore what model for DH would work at our institution. The group is chaired by Paul Youngman, […]

  • Wrapping up the DH 101 course

    Okay, so I completely failed at my attempts to blog daily about our DH 101 course. I want to blame the fast pace of the mini-Spring Term that meets daily for 4 weeks, but that would be just an excuse. So, here’s a recap: Day 4: Visit to the Scholars’ Lab at UVA:  this really […]

  • DH 101: Day 3

    This day was divided into two parts. The morning was a talk by Charlotte Roueché of King’s College London, who is visiting campus. Her talk was titled, “Mapping, or Rediscovering? What does the ‘Digital Turn’ mean for the humanities?” In the afternoon session we talked about the students’ first assignment, a blog post where they […]