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The Problem with the Call to Code
By Widner on Mar 9th, 2012
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As most of you no doubt know by now, Codecademy’s call to make 2012 the year you (yes, you!) learn to code has been heard throughout the...
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Code: Craft and Culture
By Widner on Mar 5th, 2012
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Learn to Code; Learn Code Culture
By Widner on Feb 16th, 2012
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Yes, make 2012 your year of code. Learn to code. Not only is it a critical skill for DH folks, but coding should also be considered a basic...
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Digital Tools, Digital Theory
By Widner on Nov 15th, 2011
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There has been a lot of discussion recently about if, how, and why the digital humanities needs to engage more with...
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JSTOR, the Semantic Web, and Bibliopedia
By Widner on Aug 9th, 2011
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JSTOR has been in the news recently thanks to the Aaron Swartz hacking case. While I do not wish to discuss...
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Building a Course Website with Drupal
By Widner on Mar 9th, 2011
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Catfish: Social Media Art
By Widner on Feb 16th, 2011
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Help Test "Technological & Pedagogical", My New Course Website
By Widner on Jan 14th, 2011
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In the past few years I've experimented with blogs, wikis, and other types of technology for my courses. The biggest problems were that students...
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Interplanetary Pedagogy
By Widner on Dec 21st, 2010
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Go Forth and Wikify
By Widner on Nov 7th, 2010
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I am a medievalist and digital humanities scholar working in the Department of English at The University of Texas at Austin. My dissertation "Genre Trouble: Embodied Cognition and Medieval Literature" establishes the importance of genre to interpretation and a theory for genre based in findings from cognitive science about how the human mind categorizes. My digital work focuses on pedagogy, assessment, and developing new research tools for the humanities.

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