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GVargas wrote a new post, DIY Subtitling & Machine Translation, on the site THATCamp Caribbean 2012 right now

The title says it all!

GVargas wrote a new post, Making a Scene: blending community-building and academic program development in film studies, on the site THATCamp Caribbean 2012 right now

Ten years ago, the English Department at UPRM had one fledgling film studies course supplemented by film-related course content here and there and the inevitable film content in modern language courses. Ten years […]

GVargas wrote a new post, Foundational Theories in the Digital Humanities – the 'Name Drop' Session, on the site THATCamp Caribbean 2012 right now

In this session, which I’m proposing, but in which I do not intend to be the only one talking by any means, I thought we could have an all-around discussion amongst participants to share the following:

a) How […]

GVargas wrote a new post, Digitally Retracing the History and the Culture of the Caribbean, on the site THATCamp Caribbean 2012 right now

Should one of the main concerns of digital humanists in Latin American and Caribbean studies be the curation of a pan-Caribbean cultural establishment or tradition? Does such a thing exist, and if so, how can its […]

GVargas wrote a new post, Do Digital Critics Dream of Electric Texts? (- or – Genres, Media, Culture, & Technology, Respectively), on the site THATCamp Caribbean 2012 right now

“How can it not know what it is?”
Deckard, the protagonist of the film Blade Runner, after interviewing an android that did not know it was an android and therefore behaved as if she were a human being.

With […]

GVargas wrote a new post, Easy Technologies for the Language Classroom, on the site THATCamp Caribbean 2012 right now

Implementing technology in the classroom can be an exciting and daunting prospect at the same time. Still, with a little ingenuity and without too much complication, technology can help motivate and engage […]