Category Archives: Session Proposals

Proposals for unconference sessions from THATCamp participants.

dork shorts proposal: icebreaker survey results!

Posted on May 11, 2016 by William Kane

One or two minute rundown of survey results (wherein we’ll decide who’s on the right side of history (with respect to the duck-sized horse versus horse-sized duck question (and perhaps others))). –wpk

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Lightweight Tools for Digitally Inflected Assignments

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Chelcie Rowell

What lightweight digital tools can be incorporated into digitally inflected assignments in humanities courses? How can assignments ask students both to create using these tools and critique the affordances & constraints of these tools? Let’s roll up our sleeves and … Continue reading →

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50 Shades of Icebreakers

Posted on May 10, 2016 by William Kane

Let’s do this survey thing:  goo.gl/forms/AGMQ6DAzPJ. –wpk

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Publishing Makerspace

Posted on May 9, 2016 by phillidp

Publishing Makerspace is a publishing environment that is reconfigured as a place where all the components of a scholarly project — books and e-books, virtual and physical exhibits, visualizations, live performance and film — can be integrated using a collaborative … Continue reading →

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Building a Public Humanities Website: The 18th-Century Common

Posted on May 9, 2016 by Jessica Richard

How can we communicate our scholarly work to a broader public?  In 2012 I co-founded a public humanities website — with the support of the Wake Forest Humanities Institute — that aims to do just that.  What are the payoffs … Continue reading →

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Interplay Between Archival Materials and (Digital) Humanities

Posted on May 9, 2016 by Stephanie Bennett

As an archivist, I approach the digital humanities specifically with an eye towards how to position my work and outputs so that they can be used by researchers, scholars, students, and other interested communities. But there’s a lot to unravel … Continue reading →

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Copyright: Confusion? Concern? Comprehension!

Posted on May 9, 2016 by Molly Keener

Confused about copyright, either generally or specifically with your project? Do you have concerns about fair use or author rights? Do you think you comprehend the basics (or, better yet, the nuances), but aren’t 100%? Join a conversation about copyright, … Continue reading →

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Publishing THATCamp Piedmont 2016 Proceedings

Posted on May 9, 2016 by William Kane

Talk proposal: I would like to, well, talk (see what I did there?) about publishing the results of this very THATCamp. Then again, I always want to talk about  publishing, so there’s that. Still, methinks we should thinking about properly … Continue reading →

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Institutional Support for Digital Scholarship (Including Digital Humanities)

Posted on May 9, 2016 by mgwust

Link to session notes: docs.google.com/document/d/1kxulS1sSEaXIaIqeGt5Ei1w3qj62vFPkdh7ZgRXpJTI/edit?usp=sharing I’d like to hear from you about institutional support models for Digital Scholarship, particularly—but not exclusively—in the Humanities. Questions would include: Is there a unit at your institution that supports digital scholarship? Where is it based: library, digital … Continue reading →

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OMEKA Workshops

Posted on February 1, 2016 by Aimee Mepham

Sharon Leon, Director of Public Projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason, has agreed to teach Omeka workshops at THATCamp Piedmont 2016! Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for … Continue reading →

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