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Brian Croxall wrote a new post, Jekyll (AKA static-site generators), on the site THAT CAMP New England 2017

Fri, 24 Mar 2017 14:01:28 +0000

This afternoon (Friday, 24 March) I’m going to be working through the tutorial on Jekyll from The Programming Historian. I’d be interested in a session at tomorrow’s camp to talk about Jekyll and other static-site […]

Brian Croxall wrote a new post, Workshops that I can teach at the drop of a hat, on the site THAT CAMP New England 2017

Fri, 24 Mar 2017 13:58:05 +0000

I know that THATCamps are participatory and informal, with “no lengthy proposals, papers, presentations, or product demos.” That said, I know from my experience attending Camps that people are often interested in […]

Brian Croxall and Meghan Frazer are now friends

Thu, 29 May 2014 22:04:30 +0000

Brian Croxall wrote a new post, Multi-campus teaching projects, on the site THATCamp New England 2014

Thu, 29 May 2014 22:01:18 +0000

The last two times I’ve taught my Intro to Digital Humanities course, in 2011 and in 2014, I included an assignment that responded to Mark Sample’s 2011 blog post, “The digital humanities is not about building, […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Serendip-o-matic (almost) one year later, on the site THATCamp New England 2014

Thu, 29 May 2014 21:43:45 +0000

We could also talk about the different tools that we used to make the different parts happen. That can get down in the weeds or remain at a high level.

And I think that we could probably talk a lot about […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, From anecdote to data: alternative academics and career preparation, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2012

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:20:49 +0000

Katina, will you be looking to this session to help develop survey questions as well or is that work already done?

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Mapping/Spatial tech idea session, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2012

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:18:59 +0000

Abby, you might look at the Mapping the Republic of Letters project from Stanford as well for an idea of what would be possible given world enough and time.

Brian Croxall commented on the post, A Better Blogging Assignment, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2012

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:12:35 +0000

I love this session idea and it sounds like something we could actually accomplish in 90 minutes.

To answer Roger’s question, one of the ways I developed an audience for my students’ blog posts last year was […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, not quite a session proposal, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2012

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:02:10 +0000

There’s also the Zotero group that Lisa Spiro has put together–https://www.zotero.org/groups/digital_humanities_education–and the collection of syllabi assembled by people at […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, How the Sausage is Made: Transparency in Scholarly Research Online, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2012

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:49:39 +0000

I’d suggest that if we want to cultivate an audience then we can’t go about worrying if UPs will decide we’ve already put too much information online. The mechanisms of the university and the public are fairly […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, WordPress at the University, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2012

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:41:58 +0000

This sounds really useful, especially as we at DiSC have finally got Emory to agree to a better WordPress installation and are negotiating about the different plugins that we will want to have available to everyone.

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Just Playing Around, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2012

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:40:18 +0000

7 Wonders would be a great choice!

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Twitter/Meta "Session" -- THATCamp/DH Jargon, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2012

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:38:15 +0000

An intro to Twitter almost sounds more like a workshop than a session; but I’d be happy to help with something like that, and I’d be interested to watch for #jargon.

Perhaps what you’re seeing here, Patrick, […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, little bit'a coding, little bit'a conversation, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2012

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:00:41 +0000

While I don’t know that I have much to contribute to the conversation, it sounds like something fascinating to listen to. I’m curious about the coding, however. What was the advantage of moving to static sites and […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Designing the Ultimate Tool[Kit] for Studying Videogames, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2012

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:55:29 +0000

This looks like a fabulous session, Mark, and I love the ideas being floated here. Amanda’s idea of a cultural history of people’s first exposure to videogames has me thinking about an assignment I could throw at […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Just Playing Around, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2012

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:41:10 +0000

And…I just threw The Resistance into my bag. Were it not for these games, I’d have everything in my backpack for this trip.

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Just Playing Around, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2012

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:11:37 +0000

@Jana: Apples to Apples is a lot of fun, but my set is also way too big and heavy to bring in the carry on.

@Kimon: Food and beverage might be an appropriate accompaniment…if we can keep Tom from flipping the […]

Brian Croxall wrote a new post, Just Playing Around, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2012

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:49:38 +0000

One of the great things about an unconference is that we can make them what we want them to be. It’s true that the theme of a THATCamp is an emphasis on the combination of The Humanities And Technology, something […]

Brian Croxall wrote a new post, THATCamp Junior Session Outcomes, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:32:57 +0000

It’s taken me a week to recover from the hotness that was #thatcamp and the inanity that was #thatcamproadtrip. But I’ve finally had a chance to write up my thoughts about the THATCamp Junior session that I […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Meaningful Play in Cultural Heritage, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 04:08:32 +0000

I’m into it. And I think that Andrew’s idea about using mobile devices for data collection could play well too.

I’m also interested in thinking broadly about building a framework for easy geolocative data. How […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Archaeology, Games, & Initiatives - Ethan's Mixed Bag of Crazy Topic Ideas, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 03:54:18 +0000

I’m also into the third option!

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Writing Centers, data mining, assessment, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 03:43:30 +0000

Love it. I’m there.

Brian Croxall wrote a new post, THATCamp Junior, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 03:40:56 +0000

At various times over the last year, there have been conversations about holding a THATCamp that was aimed at parents and kids. I know that we aren’t all parents, but for those of us who are, I’d be interested in […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, #alt-ac with a research agenda: what that means, what we want, how to get it, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:54:01 +0000

Something that I learned at the Off the Tracks workshop is that different institutions can have very different rules for the names / classifications of positions and that these classifications can often be set by […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Proposal: #alt-ac Support Group, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:46:51 +0000

And…if I had just gone on to read Miriam’s session proposal, I would have seen that she already said much the same thing that I had said. As is the way with Miriam and I, however, I have said it far less […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Proposal: #alt-ac Support Group, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:44:42 +0000

I love me some #alt-ac. Without trying to undermine the direction that this session might take, I’m going to advocate for coming up with something concrete by the end of it, perhaps akin to the Collaborators’ Bill […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Proposal: THATCamp UnPress, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:38:25 +0000

I love this idea and it’s something similar to something Shana Kimball and I talked about when she visited Emory a month ago: flash publishing. How do we publish more or a record of events that happen. This could […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, The Politics of Data, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Tue, 31 May 2011 20:59:38 +0000

In some ways, I wonder if the risk is that humanities people end up subsuming data to their particular “ism.” By this I mean that since humanists aren’t used to working with big data sets or to interpreting from […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Humanities books online and off, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Tue, 31 May 2011 20:50:48 +0000

Just this morning I was in a meeting with the leader of our campus’s Author Development Office, talking about the way in which marketing of academic titles is shifting increasingly onto the authors. In brief, here […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Session Proposal: Critical Code Studies, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Tue, 31 May 2011 20:42:02 +0000

I’d like the opportunity to get an overview to Critical Code Studies.

I agree with Trevor that reading code must necessarily be ambiguous…but that’s just shows that it is indeed a linguistic act(ion) (and a […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, "Unsession" proposal: grad-school games, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Tue, 31 May 2011 20:31:16 +0000

I am, of course, curious, having been in the session that led to this. Especially the morbid version.

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Where are the mini-yous? , on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Tue, 31 May 2011 20:29:18 +0000

This seems related to last year’s session on teaching DH in undergrad classrooms: see, among others, my session post. Unfortunately, we need to concede that if many people can’t agree on the definition of DH, then […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Humanities Coding/Hacking, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Tue, 31 May 2011 20:19:11 +0000

I’m going to vote for the “Thinking Like a Hacker” session (as I think I was one of the people begging for its reprise). It’s something that I’m trying to learn more about. Working on something concrete like a GM […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Match make/ paper prototype nifty visual interfaces for particular kinds of digital objects and collections, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Tue, 31 May 2011 20:09:13 +0000

At the risk of not adding much to the conversation, I’ll just chime in to say that it’s a great idea and recommend that we think about the Periodic Table of Visualization, Alan Levine’s 50+ Ways to Tell a Story, […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Session Proposal: Building a Better Backchannel, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Tue, 31 May 2011 20:00:20 +0000

Like Matt, I love this idea. And like Amanda, my first thought is that we need a better way to archive this backchannel. Personal servers running Twapperkeeper are one thing, but they aren’t enough, I […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Readings on "The Future of Librarianship: IT and DH PhDs" , on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Tue, 31 May 2011 19:47:41 +0000

As a fellow CLIR fellow, I too have followed this incident with interest. And I think it’s telling that from my own anecdotal experience, most of my DH people on Twitter weren’t talking about the talk. Instead, it […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Archives, Encoding, and Students, Oh My!, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Tue, 31 May 2011 19:39:29 +0000

I love the idea of this class project: getting people to be researchers, builders, and curators all at once. I’d be interested to know what specific hurdles you encountered in the version of the assignment that […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Making the Digital Humanities Accessible: A Session Idea + A Survey, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Tue, 31 May 2011 19:32:35 +0000

This is an issue that I’m interested in simply because I know that I know so little about it, apart from alt tags. I’m curious to know what sorts of tools you’re envisioning that go beyond the ones that you’ve […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, An honest and open discussion regarding diversity in the digital humanities? , on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Tue, 31 May 2011 19:25:39 +0000

I can sympathize with Amanda’s POV here. I’ve often felt like DH is a great way to do an end-run around theory. Not that I don’t like getting my Derrida on at times, but DH has often felt refreshingly like the […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, THATCamp CHNM details, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Sat, 14 May 2011 01:13:28 +0000

Seriously. I think this is a plot to get software and bragging rights to DC-area DHers.

Brian Croxall wrote a new post, Get Your Very Own TCSE Shirt! (Really?? Yes, Really!), on the site THATCamp Southeast 2011

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:00:44 +0000

Did you thrill to the weekend of TCSE tweets that just passed you by? Did you wish you could have been a part of the action? Did you salivate when we posted a sneak preview of our shirts and name tags?

Did you […]

Brian Croxall wrote a new post, THATCamp Meetups, on the site THATCamp Southeast 2011

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:03:04 +0000

THATCamp is almost here, and BootCamp starts tomorrow. We know that you’re all coming to work, learn, and get your hands dirty working on your projects. But a THATCamp isn’t all just blood, sweat, and tears: […]

Brian Croxall wrote a new post, Just whetting your appetites, on the site THATCamp Southeast 2011

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:02:21 +0000

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Dialogue for producers and users of Digital Collections, on the site THATCamp Southeast 2011

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:34:59 +0000

I wonder if NINES would be an interesting model for thinking about how new forms of scholarship can be fostered by innovative collections.

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Subject guides, on the site THATCamp Southeast 2011

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:26:51 +0000

In my short time working on Emory’s LibGuides, I feel like we could really do more to create a uniformity in our guides. (If it were up to me, I would limit us to using just two columns of boxes per page.) But […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, From digitization to digital collection, on the site THATCamp Southeast 2011

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:20:04 +0000

It sounds like this session could pair well with the one that Katie McCormick is wanting to run: http://southeast2011.thatcamp.org/session-idea-collaborating-on-digital-content-creation-etc.

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Session Idea - Kindles in the writing classroom / library, on the site THATCamp Southeast 2011

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:17:11 +0000

I’m certainly interested to hear what you’re learning from this experiment. I had students using Kindles in my classes last year, and it was difficult. In large part it was because there was generally only one per […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Teaching the Psycho-Spiritual Impacts of Technology, on the site THATCamp Southeast 2011

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:14:56 +0000

So we’re having TCSE on the same weekend as the National Day of Unplugging? Apologies, all.

I like this idea, and I’d be interested to hear how people decide when and when not to integrate technology into the […]

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Teaching the Environmental Impacts of Technology, on the site THATCamp Southeast 2011

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:10:11 +0000

I like this idea as well. It’s something that’s so easy to forget about and abstract.

Brian Croxall commented on the post, Session Idea -- Collaborating on Digital Content Creation, etc., on the site THATCamp Southeast 2011

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:06:30 +0000

I think that this could prove a fruitful discussion and is similar to one that I know an Emory librarian is thinking about proposing to help brainstorm the sort of tools and interfaces that would be necessary for […]