THATCamp | Boone Gorges | Activity https://thatcamp.org/people/boone-gorges/activity/ Activity feed for Boone Gorges. Wed, 19 Feb 2020 15:54:33 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=5.1.2 en 30 hourly 2 954bb3e15830494a639023683c08b0fc-en Boone Gorges wrote a new post, Maker Challenge: WordPress plugin for displaying related items from the DPLA, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2013 http://chnm2013.thatcamp.org/06/08/maker-challenge-wordpress-plugin-for-displaying-related-items-from-the-dpla/ Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:17:50 +0000 ThumbnailMy entry for the Maker Challenge is WP DPLA, a WordPress plugin for displaying related items from the Digital Public Library on your blog posts.

The DPLA has lots of cool content, and WP DPLA is a way to help […]

]]> 14848c088a9f1d12d4bc3c26e58ef2c4-en Boone Gorges edited a notepad Toolkit for THATCamp Newbies on the site THATCamp Center for History and New Media 2013 (aka THATCamp Prime) https://thatcamp.org/activity/p/8244/ Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:19:40 +0000 0 cdfa62672964534d4160295b4cb2347a-en Boone Gorges edited a notepad Notes and Resources for De-MOOCing the Past on the site THATCamp Center for History and New Media 2013 (aka THATCamp Prime) https://thatcamp.org/activity/p/7854/ Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:44:08 +0000 0 5e7029b3fdbbca73bd964c673a6e54d5-en Boone Gorges edited a notepad on the site THATCamp Lehigh Valley 2013 https://thatcamp.org/activity/p/6712/ Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:05:24 +0000 0 80ff6b005cdac4cce35c33cfe711c43a-en Boone Gorges wrote a new post, I propose an anti-session on Messing Around Or Maybe Building Something Kinda Neat, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2012 http://chnm2012.thatcamp.org/06/07/i-propose-an-anti-session-on-messing-around-or-maybe-building-something-kinda-neat/ Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:16:37 +0000 At past THATCamps, I’ve had the most fun when I’ve ditched the official sessions (as “official” as THATCamp sessions can be) to do some organized messing around. Last year, it took the form of sitting down with a […]

]]> 27a2a793c11c19dc97056b9d95172630-en Boone Gorges commented on the post, Things I'd love to discuss, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2012 http://chnm2012.thatcamp.org/06/07/things-id-love-to-discuss/#comment-259 Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:06:02 +0000 Cool ideas, Marta.

Did you see that one of the Friday workshops is on cool uses of Git? http://chnm2012.thatcamp.org/workshops/ Not that it would preclude a Saturday session.

What are the dangers of […]

]]> 8bb728fb98692fc7fe889032f05cec5a-en Boone Gorges commented on the post, All Courseware Sucks, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010 http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/05/19/all-courseware-sucks/#comment-231 Sun, 23 May 2010 22:33:39 +0000 Jana – This consideration was at the center of our discussion yesterday. I’m working on a blog post where our ideas will be revealed 🙂

]]> 04ec095a9c483ec45de6bc21c9d5aab8-en Boone Gorges commented on the post, All Courseware Sucks, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010 http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/05/19/all-courseware-sucks/#comment-227 Thu, 20 May 2010 13:24:09 +0000 On Jeremy’s last point – about moving toward individual infrastructures as opposed to institutional ones – we might think about guiding the conversation toward data standards rather than interface issues. The […]

]]> 12faa4da013f3ecf7f3d8c9960a32c07-en Boone Gorges commented on the post, Dude, I Just Colleagued My Dean, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010 http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/05/19/dude-i-just-colleagued-my-dean/#comment-202 Thu, 20 May 2010 13:21:38 +0000 Cool idea, Matt. I’ll be anxious to see what comes out of this conversation. I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment expressed in your penultimate paragraph: it’s highly likely that the “right” conventions, […]

]]> c689b06e3ceba52551ed017191d9d25a-en Boone Gorges commented on the post, All Courseware Sucks, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010 http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/05/19/all-courseware-sucks/#comment-217 Wed, 19 May 2010 19:29:40 +0000 I’m particularly interested in this topic as I’m mentoring a Google Summer of Code project wherein a student will be setting up a learning environment inside of BuddyPress. I have mixed feelings about it: while I […]

]]> 9b69e5bcc1fe255f25e1f3548a754416-en Boone Gorges commented on the post, HTML5, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010 http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/05/19/html5/#comment-206 Wed, 19 May 2010 17:11:18 +0000 Good idea. I went to a session at WordCamp Boston that focused its discussion of HTML5 around a test case (how the new WP TwentyTen theme could be HTML-ified). It ended up being a much more productive introduction […]

]]> bef8f63c4359b0698cd539515c99fa04-en Boone Gorges commented on the post, THATCamp-in-a-Box, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010 http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/05/10/thatcamp-in-a-box/#comment-111 Mon, 10 May 2010 15:54:25 +0000 My ears are burning.

One cool thing about central hosting for regional THATCamps is that it’d allow frequent attendees to develop something of a THATCamp portfolio, where all their blog posts and comments from […]

]]> e0eb8392287f60622b7ea836ef335ab7-en Boone Gorges wrote a new post, Applying open source methodology and economics to academia, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010 http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/27/applying-open-source-methodology-and-economics-to-academia/ Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:18:41 +0000 I’d like to explore the potential parallel between academic knowledge production and open-source software development. Here’s my thought: while things are economically dire for universities (the de facto centers […]

]]> 2c8d2bb417909fb2e4cc6b35ea8a3689-en Boone Gorges commented on the post, Hacking ethics for edupunks, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010 http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/22/hacking-ethics-for-edupunks/#comment-69 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:27:33 +0000 This is a great idea for a session. There’s a pretty good chance I’ll have an iPad by the time THATCamp rolls around, but If I don’t have it hacked by then, I probably won’t bring it – don’t want to diminish my geek cred 🙂

]]> 52e17a365172492183552a791fb15ebd-en Boone Gorges commented on the post, Digital Literacy Across the Curriculum: Is it desirable? Is it possible?, on the site THATCamp Columbus 2010 http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/12/11/digital-literacy-across-the-curriculum-is-it-desirable-is-it-possible/#comment-47 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:10:59 +0000 While I’m taking notes here in this comments section, here’s a brief but potentially helpful articulation of “21st century literacies” from NCTE: http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/21stcentdefinition

]]> 81f1da51caa1d3bb16e39fd07c7f4298-en Boone Gorges commented on the post, Treasures of Geocities/Big Brother in MY Kindle?, on the site THATCamp Columbus 2010 http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/12/21/treasures-of-geocitiesbig-brother-in-my-kindle/#comment-76 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:02:51 +0000 No problem. This piece just came through my reader, so I thought I’d post it here, as it’s directly relevant to the idea of ownership over digital items: http://techdirt.com/articles/20100110/2302157699.shtml

]]> 339ca4fd171f479aa8206e412591489d-en Boone Gorges commented on the post, Digital Literacy Across the Curriculum: Is it desirable? Is it possible?, on the site THATCamp Columbus 2010 http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/12/11/digital-literacy-across-the-curriculum-is-it-desirable-is-it-possible/#comment-46 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:00:24 +0000 Great link, Lewis.

Jim, it’d be great to walk away with something concrete that acted a sort of action plan. The conceptual problem, though, is that it takes years to get any real plan moving in a university […]

]]> 0d8d2b9d079436925913317c938b432b-en Boone Gorges commented on the post, Preserving Digital Humanities Projects, on the site THATCamp Columbus 2010 http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/12/11/preserving-digital-humanities-projects/#comment-33 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:54:43 +0000 This is a really important topic. Glad to see you’re taking it head on.

One complication I’d like to throw into the mix is this. As web use becomes more and more social as the years go by, the value of a given […]

]]> 36b58087e2c3e3a894d8d113d852672b-en Boone Gorges commented on the post, Taking collaboration to the online environment, on the site THATCamp Columbus 2010 http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/12/14/taking-collaboration-to-the-online-environment/#comment-51 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:48:39 +0000 Sounds like a great project. I’m the lead developer for an online collaboration project at the City University of New York, called the CUNY Academic Commons. The purpose of our site, much like yours, is to provide […]

]]> c271b2c3240ce702f9e99b1dc1ac4d20-en Boone Gorges commented on the post, Data mining as literary criticism, on the site THATCamp Columbus 2010 http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/12/18/data-mining-as-literary-criticism/#comment-58 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:45:15 +0000 Sounds like a cool idea for a session. Like some of the other commenters, I’m a fan of Wordle. I’m a bit skeptical about using it as a jumping off point for critical analysis of texts, as I think that word […]

]]> 919385ffec96422b51ef712807ed9582-en Boone Gorges commented on the post, Treasures of Geocities/Big Brother in MY Kindle?, on the site THATCamp Columbus 2010 http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/12/21/treasures-of-geocitiesbig-brother-in-my-kindle/#comment-74 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:40:17 +0000 All of these ideas sound cool to me. I’m particularly interested in your topic number 2, as I’m fascinated by the way that digital artifacts push the concept of ‘ownership’ to its logical limits. I wonder if we’re […]

]]> 95e9fd5f43fc9dccc44d359d567c8f25-en Boone Gorges commented on the post, Synchronicity: Merging Text with Audio/Video Components of Oral History Online, on the site THATCamp Columbus 2010 http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/01/01/synchronicity-merging-text-with-audiovideo-components-of-oral-history-online/#comment-103 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:32:20 +0000 I recently stumbled on http://www.snapstream.com/, which is a commercial company trying to make TV broadcasts searchable in a similar way that you are: with time-stamped transcripts. I’m curious to learn whether […]

]]> 7bb7603716fec7a4b590c994d49bbf6d-en Boone Gorges commented on the post, Social Media, Creativity and Promotion, on the site THATCamp Columbus 2010 http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/01/04/social-media-creativity-and-promotion/#comment-111 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:28:08 +0000 What a cool topic. I took a graduate course in philosophical aesthetics in which we discussed the idea that artistic merit is fundamentally linked to a particular community or “art world”, such that what it means […]

]]> 6a03da71b56e507eb0e30bfff91a526e-en Boone Gorges commented on the post, Digital Literacy Across the Curriculum: Is it desirable? Is it possible?, on the site THATCamp Columbus 2010 http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/12/11/digital-literacy-across-the-curriculum-is-it-desirable-is-it-possible/#comment-42 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:58:12 +0000 Ooh, and one more thing: A piece in the NYT yesterday made me think that maybe an idea like mine is picking up steam: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/computer-science-education-its-not-shop-class/. The […]

]]> b8b105926adb517f4046ba0eec0afcd2-en Boone Gorges commented on the post, Digital Literacy Across the Curriculum: Is it desirable? Is it possible?, on the site THATCamp Columbus 2010 http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/12/11/digital-literacy-across-the-curriculum-is-it-desirable-is-it-possible/#comment-41 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:55:28 +0000 Thanks so much for the feedback. My proposal is very much about brainstorming a provocative topic, so I’m very happy to hear your ideas about how to expand, correct, and hone the central idea.

A theme that I […]

]]> b0a087a5a9fc1fbc633811ee55d88cd5-en Boone Gorges wrote a new post, Digital Literacy Across the Curriculum: Is it desirable? Is it possible?, on the site THATCamp Columbus 2010 http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/12/11/digital-literacy-across-the-curriculum-is-it-desirable-is-it-possible/ Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:38:23 +0000 I spent a few years as a graduate fellow in a Writing Across the Curriculum program, and in my current full-time position as an instructional technologist I continue to collaborate frequently with WAC. In the time […]

]]> 4d90c8457246198b280db34acdc4cfd4-en Boone Gorges commented on the post, From History Student to Webmaster?, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2009 http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/10/from-history-student-to-webmaster/#comment-210 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:38:50 +0000 Count me in too! I’m trained as a philosopher but have fallen into the roles of web developer and instructional technologist. In a sense it’s not so surprising that someone with a background in formal logic would […]

]]> 5da506c1b3f61d4f4c0c0e268c38db00-en Boone Gorges commented on the post, Developing, but not overdeveloping, a collaborative space, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2009 http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/25/developing-but-not-overdeveloping-a-collaborative-space/#comment-410 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:23:27 +0000 @kfitz – Excellent, I’m really looking forward to talking about our respective projects!

@jouldi – Your response doesn’t sound unorthodox at all! I totally agree with the spirit behind your sentiment. In an ideal […]

]]> ebfc2b8e610abf2248166db013d28ec6-en Boone Gorges commented on the post, Who is working with Drupal? (I am -- here's why), on the site THATCamp CHNM 2009 http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/24/who-is-working-with-drupal-i-am-heres-why/#comment-377 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:12:03 +0000 Very interesting discussion, Zach. I’ve never used Drupal in an educational setting, though I’ve done some freelance e-commerce sites with it. To me, a relative novice with the software, Drupal feels a little like […]

]]> fdd19e5d6a6b4c2b089c35a5cd76c83f-en Boone Gorges wrote a new post, Developing, but not overdeveloping, a collaborative space, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2009 http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/25/developing-but-not-overdeveloping-a-collaborative-space/ Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:18:00 +0000 For the past few months, I’ve been involved in the development of the CUNY Academic Commons, a new project of the City University of New York whose stated mission is to “to support faculty initiatives and build […]

]]> 60e0d38cde30d9eef570373dcc4f006b-en Boone Gorges wrote a new post, Going solo, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2012 http://chnm2012.thatcamp.org/?p=650 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000