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Mark Sample wrote a new post, Notes for Games & the Humanities session, on the site THATCamp Piedmont 2016

Wed, 11 May 2016 17:30:38 +0000

Here are the collaborative notes for the games and humanities session.

Mark Sample wrote a new post, Notes for GIS & Humanities session, on the site THATCamp Piedmont 2016

Wed, 11 May 2016 15:41:50 +0000

Here are the shared, collective notes for the GIS in the Humanities classroom session.

Mark Sample wrote a new post, Notes for Medium-Sized Data session, on the site THATCamp Piedmont 2016

Wed, 11 May 2016 14:31:54 +0000

Notes from the Medium-Sized Data session are in a Google Doc: follow/share/contribute!

Mark Sample wrote a new post, THATCamp Piedmont 2014 Workshops, on the site THATCamp Piedmont 2014

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 13:36:53 +0000

We’ve got a few excellent workshops lined up for October 18:

Digital Mapping using Neatline (led by Anelise Shrout, the Mellon Post-Doc in Digital Studies at Davidson)
3D Printing (led by several Davidson […]

Mark Sample started the topic Registrants not showing up under Campers in the forum Technical issues

Fri, 03 Oct 2014 15:48:19 +0000

After we’ve accepted new registrants they don’t show up under the Campers tab. Our site is http://piedmont2014.thatcamp.org/ . In the past I think the Campers page would be populated automatically. Has that changed?

Also, heads-up: even after the Friends plugin has been disabled, the site is running frustratingly slow.

Mark Sample started the topic Registrants not showing up under Campers in the forum Technical issues

Fri, 03 Oct 2014 15:48:19 +0000

After we’ve accepted new registrants they don’t show up under the Campers tab. Our site is http://piedmont2014.thatcamp.org/. In the past I think the Campers page would be populated automatically. Has that changed?

Also, heads-up: even after the Friends plugin has been disabled, the site is running frustratingly slow.

Mark Sample started the topic Registrants not showing up under Campers in the forum Technical issues

Fri, 03 Oct 2014 15:48:19 +0000

After we’ve accepted new registrants they don’t show up under the Campers tab. Our site is http://piedmont2014.thatcamp.org/. In the past I think the Campers page would be populated automatically. Has that changed?

Also, heads-up: even after the Friends plugin has been disabled, the site is running frustratingly slow.

Mark Sample started the topic Registrants not showing up under Campers in the forum Technical issues

Fri, 03 Oct 2014 15:48:19 +0000

After we’ve accepted new registrants they don’t show up under the Campers tab. Our site is http://piedmont2014.thatcamp.org/. In the past I think the Campers page would be populated automatically. Has that changed?

Also, heads-up: even after the Friends plugin has been disabled, the site is running frustratingly slow.

Mark Sample edited a notepad "Carpentry" as a way of knowing on the site THATCamp Leadership 2013

Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:18:51 +0000

Mark Sample edited a notepad "Carpentry" as a way of knowing on the site THATCamp Leadership 2013

Thu, 10 Oct 2013 15:08:29 +0000

Mark Sample wrote a new post, Build a Bot, on the site THATCamp Leadership 2013

Wed, 09 Oct 2013 02:27:11 +0000

Just a few minutes ago I posted a “talk” session called Carpentry as a Way of Knowing. As an alternative to that session I want to propose actually doing the thing we’d be talking about in that other session: […]

Mark Sample wrote a new post, “Carpentry” as a Way of Knowing, on the site THATCamp Leadership 2013

Wed, 09 Oct 2013 01:54:04 +0000

First of all, I should explain what I mean by “carpentry” in this context. I’m borrowing the idea from Ian Bogost, who describes carpentry as the practice of making philosophical and scholarly inquiries by […]

Mark Sample wrote a new post, Maker Challenge: Introducing Moby Schtick, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2013

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:41:19 +0000

Introducing my entry into the THATCamp Maker Challege: Moby Schtick, a Twitter bot that randomly mashes up tweets from comedian Rob Delaney (“the funniest person on Twitter”) with passages from his favorite […]

Mark Sample edited a notepad 3D Modeling and Printing on the site THATCamp Center for History and New Media 2013 (aka THATCamp Prime)

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:47:47 +0000

Mark Sample edited a notepad 3D Modeling and Printing on the site THATCamp Center for History and New Media 2013 (aka THATCamp Prime)

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:45:55 +0000

Mark Sample edited a notepad Changing the Scale of Things on the site THATCamp Center for History and New Media 2013 (aka THATCamp Prime)

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:03:25 +0000

Mark Sample wrote a new post, Distant, Close, Big, Small: Rethinking the Scale of Things, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2013

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 02:37:32 +0000

In the digital humanities we often talk about distant reading and big data. In the more traditional humanities we often talk about close reading and the importance of small details. But it seems to me that both […]

Mark Sample commented on the post, Post links to session notes here, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2012

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:43:22 +0000

I’ve added links to the collaborative notes directly from the initial session proposal pages, but here they are again: Betting a Better Blogging Assignment and the Ultimate Took[Kit] for Studying Videogames.

Mark Sample wrote a new post, Designing the Ultimate Tool[Kit] for Studying Videogames, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2012

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 03:14:54 +0000

Scholarly disciplines usually have a consensually recognizable array of tools they use to study the primary materials of that discipline. Most often in the humanities it’s simply books and other documents, along […]

Mark Sample wrote a new post, A Better Blogging Assignment, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2012

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:06:45 +0000

I’ve got a pedagogical problem and I want you to help me.

I’m sick of student blogging.

This confession probably sounds strange coming from me, a vocal advocate for using blogs in the classroom, and for […]

Mark Sample wrote a new post, Hacking Campus Space, on the site THATCamp Piedmont 2012

Thu, 03 May 2012 04:45:04 +0000

There are many aspects of academic life that we have little control over. One of the most significant of these aspects is also one of the most invisible, because it comes with a kind of take-it-for-grantedness: […]

Mark Sample commented on the post, Meaningful Play in Cultural Heritage, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:05:54 +0000

I really like this idea (not surprisingly!). I’m eager to hear more about your experiences with SCVNGR. I have this dream that the hype over geolocation apps like Foursquare and Gowalla dies down (perhaps it […]

Mark Sample commented on the post, Speaking (digital) truth to (analog) power, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Thu, 26 May 2011 20:38:16 +0000

It would be totally antithetical to my idea of tactical collaboration to “grace” you with my “presence”—but I’d love to be there as a fellow DH guerrilla!

It’s worth mentioning that I came up with my original […]

Mark Sample wrote a new post, Session Proposal: Critical Code Studies, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Tue, 24 May 2011 14:59:50 +0000

This session proposal overlaps with Patrick’s idea for a humanities coding session, but it’s different enough that I thought it might warrant its own session. Whereas Patrick would like to draw together people who […]

Mark Sample commented on the post, Humanities Coding/Hacking, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Tue, 24 May 2011 13:47:48 +0000

I really like these session ideas. The first one in particular comes close to a Critical Code Studies session I was going to propose. I may still propose the idea, because it would approach the idea of code from a […]

Mark Sample wrote a new post, Session Proposal: Building a Better Backchannel, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Fri, 20 May 2011 18:21:29 +0000

It’s come to be expected at digital humanities-oriented conferences that there will be a vibrant backchannel—commentary, questions, dissent, and amplification, usually taking place in real-time (but not always

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

Fri, 20 May 2011 16:13:09 +0000

James, this is a great session idea, and I’m glad my tweet might serve as a kind of impetus for the discussion. I should explain the context of that particular statement (“even people who want diversity don’t see […]

Mark Sample wrote a new post, THATCamp Prime Collaborative Documents, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010

Mon, 24 May 2010 18:23:34 +0000

A number of THATCamp sessions generated collaboratively written notes, syllabi, and brainstorming documents, most frequently using Google Documents. Here’s a list of these collaborative, shared documents. Let […]

Mark Sample wrote a new post, Zen Scavenger Hunt, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010

Fri, 21 May 2010 18:39:46 +0000

This is a more playful session idea, but no less serious than anything else proposed: I’d like to hold a Zen Scavenger Hunt at some point during THATCamp.

I got the idea of a Zen Scavenger Hunt from ARG designer […]

Mark Sample commented on the post, ARGs, Archives, and Digital Scholarship, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010

Fri, 21 May 2010 18:10:53 +0000

I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me earlier, but Omeka as an ARGHive platform is worth investigating. It’d be possible to collect all sorts of items and documents, and then every student/scholar could curate […]

Mark Sample commented on the post, ARGs, Archives, and Digital Scholarship, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010

Fri, 21 May 2010 00:06:28 +0000

@Zach Whalen – Oh, man, you’re right about “The 21 Steps”! I hope it’s broken only temporarily, because it’s such a great model for using maps as a narrative platform.

@tjowens – Indeed, there are some heavy […]

Mark Sample commented on the post, ARGs, Archives, and Digital Scholarship, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010

Thu, 20 May 2010 14:28:37 +0000

You’ve nailed the problem with talking about ARGs in a critical way: “ARGHives [in whatever form they currently take] aren’t good at conveying the text of an ARG to everyone else, and this is a problem for ARG […]

Mark Sample commented on the post, what have you done for us lately?, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010

Thu, 20 May 2010 03:36:31 +0000

I hadn’t even read your post until after I had written about underconferences. But many of my ideas there seem applicable. I’d love for an official conference to sanction and support a parallel underconference, […]

Mark Sample commented on the post, All Courseware Sucks, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010

Thu, 20 May 2010 03:16:31 +0000

Somewhere between Listproc and Blackboard Global Extreme Edition it seems we forgot to ask the question: what do we as teachers want courseware for?

At least on my own campus, Blackboard seems to be like that […]

Mark Sample commented on the post, Playing With the Past: Pick One of Three, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010

Thu, 20 May 2010 02:38:43 +0000

Great idea, Trevor! I’m up for any version of #2 or #3. I’m invested in games just for their own sake (i.e. game studies), but I’m also interested in gaming and simulations for the sake of teaching other fields. […]

Mark Sample commented on the post, THATCamp-in-a-Box, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010

Wed, 12 May 2010 15:12:58 +0000

This question of centralization/decentralization reminds me of a similar debate concerning class blogs: should there be a single class blog that every student subscribes and posts to, or should the class blog be a […]

Mark Sample commented on the post, Teaching Collaboration, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010

Fri, 07 May 2010 04:16:52 +0000

Collaboration among students is something the sciences teach and reward much more than the humanities. I’ve often dreamed of teaching my literature classes in one of the biology labs down the hall, with students […]

Mark Sample wrote a new post, Geolocation, Archives, and Emulators (not all at once), on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010

Wed, 05 May 2010 15:44:35 +0000

My involvement in the digital humanities is wide-ranging, but there are three areas that I would particularly want to focus on at THATCamp.

First, I have a pedagogical interest in geolocation and mobile […]

Mark Sample commented on the post, Hacking ethics for edupunks, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010

Wed, 05 May 2010 15:30:38 +0000

Hacking Ethics for Edupunks is a great session idea. But geek cred aside, I’d like to push us beyond just talking about the closed nature of the iPad. In fact, trying to avoid talking about Apple might make this […]