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Digital Humanities

Digital politics

Friday, May 12, 2006

Freakishly hectic days. And that’s my excuse for not posting anything in the last couple of days. For a while, each day has been freakishly hectic but it is easier to write on somedays than on others.
Since monday, I have been meaning to write on a couple of digital humanities themes. I also wanted to [...]

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Digital Native

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Here is a scary thought. My students are and will remain mostly digital natives, who fit into the following description:
Our children today are being socialized in a way that is vastly different from their parents. The numbers are overwhelming: over 10,000 hours playing videogames, over 200,000 emails and instant messages sent and received; over 10,000 [...]

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Assessing our learning

Sunday, April 2, 2006

Bloomington, Indiana. I attended a workshop this weekend on ‘Assessment’ organized by the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center.
The place is packed with instructors who teach Slavic, Inner Asian, East Asian (mostly Korean) and African Languages. Also present are coordinators of language programs, mostly from Indiana University, a species rarely seen in the South [...]

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New look

Monday, March 20, 2006

Finally the move to WordPress 2.0 has happened, thanks to Sepoy’s help this evening. For several weeks now, I have also been thinking about changing the WordPress theme. I really liked Zen Minimalism but Scott Wallick’s minimalist alternative veryplaintxt is something I have had my eyes on for many weeks now. I love the clean, [...]

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