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A biweekly discussion of how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities, libraries, and museums.
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Item Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 01 – Wikipedia: Friend or Foe?(2007-03-06T21:36:44Z) Center for History and New MediaIn our inaugural podcast our feature story covers the controversy over whether Wikipedia is a useful or problematic resource for students. In the news roundup, we wonder if the launch of Windows Vista has any significance, ponder the rise of Google Docs as an alternative to Word, and cover recent stories about Blackboard‘s patents and [...]Item Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 02 – The Old and the YouTube(2007-03-21T21:22:03Z) Center for History and New MediaIn our second podcast, we revisit the debate over Wikipedia, including hearing from Mills about how Cambodians are using it (and whether you can find a WiFi signal in the jungle of Cambodia). Our feature story explores whether and how YouTube is useful in the classroom. Links for this week include a podcast on Byzantine [...]Item Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 03 – CI: Cyberinfrastructure(2007-04-04T19:38:40Z) Center for History and New MediaOur third podcast begins with some discussion of April Fools’ pranks, including a great one about Google acquiring the OCLC, and how blogs and the internet can foster hoaxes. This week’s feature takes a look at the hot topic of cyberinfrastructure. We also take a look at Turnitin, and the larger issue of plagiarism. Links [...]Item Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 04 – Welcome to the Social(2007-04-17T19:16:34Z) Center for History and New MediaCan social networking sites like Facebook play a productive role in the humanities? In this episode Dan plays the old fogey, while Tom and Mills talk about how to use these sites in an advantageous way. We also report on recent meetings on the digital humanities and digital museums, and discuss Google’s My Maps and [...]Item Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 05 – Tragedy and Technology(2007-05-02T20:54:05Z) Center for History and New MediaWe take a break from our normal format to spend the entirety of this episode thinking about the role of technology—its great power to forge social bonds and enable a new kind of memorialization, as well as its unfortunate ability to underscore the separation of those who remain outside social circles—in the terrible tragedy at [...]Item Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 06 – Designed to Make You Think(2007-05-16T14:03:07Z) Center for History and New MediaWeb design guru Jeremy Boggs joins Dan, Tom, and Mills to discuss the past, present, and future of designing websites for academia, museums, and libraries. In the news roundup, we cover a number of situations where information and images have shown up at inopportune times and in inopportune places, including the case of the MySpace [...]Item Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 07 – History Appliances(2007-05-30T21:36:42Z) Center for History and New MediaBill Turkel joins us on the podcast to discuss his fascinating work on “history appliances,” or the possibility of making history more real by creating physical environments and interfaces that truly immerse us in the past. In the news roundup we ponder whether the opening of Facebook to outside developers means possibly better integration with [...]Item Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 08 – Basic Training(2007-06-13T21:48:34Z) Center for History and New MediaHow can you learn technical skills such as web design, programming, and related methods and technologies for work in the digital humanities? We tackle that difficult question on this week’s show, while also covering the top IT issues that universities face (according to CIOs), transcribing books the new fashioned way, and analog and digital news [...]Item Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 09 – Too Much Information(2007-07-03T20:58:43Z) Center for History and New MediaWhat are students, researchers, and librarians supposed to do with the tremendous volume of digitized scholarly materials now available to them? We discuss the problem of information overload in this week’s feature segment. The news roundup turns into an iPhone-fest–or is it an iPhone-bashing? Dan tries not to go near an iPhone for fear of [...]Item Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 10 – Risky Business? Blogs on Campus, Part I(2007-07-18T15:54:17Z) Center for History and New MediaDan, Mills, and Tom celebrate the tenth edition of Digital Campus with part one in a new series on blogs and blogging. In this episode, we take a look back at how we became bloggers, examine questions of subject matter, voice, and style, and debate the risks and rewards of blogging in a scholarly context. [...]Item Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 11 – Risky Business? Blogs on Campus, Part II (fixed)(2007-08-26T00:09:47Z) Center for History and New MediaWe continue our discussion of blogging, this time with a closer look at the challenges and difficulties of starting and maintaining a blog, attracting and keeping an audience, and making sure it doesn’t get in the way of other academic pursuits. In the news roundup, we compare the iPhone and Facebook platforms, examine two software [...]Item Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 12 – Productivity and Connectivity(2007-09-10T15:51:24Z) Center for History and New MediaWe begin the news roundup this week with a bit of embarrassing news from Dan, then dig into several stories about big media companies entering the online learning market and Google Books becoming more useful for scholarship. In our feature segment, Tom and Mills explain how they try to stay productive in a world of [...]Item Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 13 – Everything in Moderation?(2007-09-21T18:33:03Z) Center for History and New MediaIs the moderated environment of email discussion lists still the best way for scholars to communicate with others in their field? Or is the time ripe to move those conversations onto blogs and less mediated and more open formats? That’s this week’s debate in the feature segment. In the roundup we cover news about greater [...]Item Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 14 – Where is the Art?(2007-10-10T20:24:34Z) Center for History and New MediaThe second most frequently asked question at museums after “Where are the restrooms?” is “Where is the art?” In this episode we ask whether those artifacts belong on a museum’s website, and if so, how, as we debate the proper relationship between a museum’s virtual and physical manifestations. Our news roundup covers the opening up [...]Item Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 15 – Exposing Yourself(2007-11-05T17:18:23Z) Center for History and New MediaThink Google is scary with all of the information it gathers about you through your web searches? Wait until Facebook starts its advertising platform based on all of the likes and dislikes you’ve given it, and combines that with the power of Microsoft, which just bought a stake in the biggest social network on campus. [...]Item Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 16 – Steal This E-Book(2007-12-04T18:01:04Z) Center for History and New MediaAmazon.com‘s release of its new e-book reader the Kindle has set off a frenzy of speculation about the future of books, reading, and publishing. The Digital Campus team debates the promise and problems of the Kindle and e-book readers in general. In the news roundup we express outrage at a possible new U.S. bill that [...]Item Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 17 – Can You Hear Me Now?(2007-12-14T17:25:09Z) Center for History and New MediaOn this podcast we finally put to rest the Great Facebook Controversy of 2007. We tell listeners how to turn off Facebook’s intrusive Beacon advertising system, and note LinkedIn’s attempt to capitalize on Facebook’s stumble. We also assess the importance of privacy for search engines given Ask.com‘s move to make it easier to search anonymously, [...]Item Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 18 – Top Ten of 2007(2007-12-24T20:50:41Z) Center for History and New MediaThe regulars close out the first calendar year of Digital Campus with a countdown of the top stories of 2007. In a year when lines formed for the iPhone, social networking went mainstream, Vista battled with Leopard (and XP), and virtual worlds beckoned, find out which stories made Mills, Tom, and Dan’s top ten list. [...]Item Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 19 – Big Things in Small Packages(2008-01-16T18:05:16Z) Center for History and New MediaOn our first podcast of the new year, we look at the rise of the small, cheap laptop and its significance for education and cultural sites. In addition to a full rundown of the latest news about the One Laptop Per Child project and its $188 XO laptop, we cover the wildly popular Asus Eee [...]Item Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 20 – Open to Change(2008-01-30T18:43:06Z) Center for History and New MediaAre open educational resources such as iTunes U and thought-provoking dot-coms such as BigThink.com a distraction from the mission of professors and universities, or the wave of the future? Tom, Mills, and Dan debate the merits of “open access” intellectual content in the feature story. We also follow up on Dan’s experience with buying a [...]