Monthly Archives: March 2012

Seamless Presentations

I’ve used PowerPoint, Prezi, and Keynote and I’m still dreaming of an ideal presentation medium for teaching. My wishlist includes: Being able to navigate gracefully to any point in the presentation (skip slides forward or back) Include media clips seamlessly … Continue reading

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Facebook Group for Informal Learning and Stuff

Hello friends, I hope that I am doing this correctly- I’ve read the email instructions twice to double check but there’s no guarantee that I’m doing this right (until someone says- hey, you’re doing this wrong). So this will be … Continue reading

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Perl regex for Unicode

I work in the main library at BYU doing data manipulation. I recently finished a project where I went through the authority database and searched for every foreign (non-Latin), vernacular script. In other words, if the Cyrillic alphabet was used, … Continue reading

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How to Teach DH?

How would you introduce the field of DH to undergraduates?  What history would you think essential for foundational thinking?  What examples of DH would best demonstrate the evolution from Humanities Computing?  What basic texts describe the fundamentals? What tools should … Continue reading

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