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By: More on Digital Humanities Projects « Mechanick Exercises

More on Digital Humanities Projects « Mechanick Exercises — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:25:51 +0000

[...] or specialized technological abilities. Get some ideas and inspiration by following some of these links (again, posted by a grad student with first-hand experience). One of her last links is worth [...]

By: Ben Pauley

Ben Pauley — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:07:43 +0000

I wanted to post (belatedly, I fear) a link to a new round of video tutorials for using Eighteenth-Century Book Tracker, with a particular emphasis on a new feature: the Eighteenth-Century Book Tracker bookmarklet. Details Friday. In the meantime, the new video tutorials can be found here. If you'd like to try things out yourself, you can get the new bookmarklet at this location. I'm looking forward to a good set of conversations. See everyone in Albuquerque.

By: Molly Hardy

Molly Hardy — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:28:46 +0000

Here are some of the resources that will help others get started with Google Maps and Google Earth:

1. For beginners, Google offers a number of helpful videos to get you started:

<http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/maps/tour/>

2. The University of Texas at Austin's Digital Writing and Research Lab (DWRL) hosted a workshop to think through the relationship between mapping and writing instruction. Watch a video from the workshop:

<http://www.dwrl.utexas.edu/students/using-google-maps-writing-tool>

3. More recently, the DWRL hosted a workshop dedicated to exploring how Google Earth may be used in the classroom. The video from this workshop is not yet available, but there are a number of useful handouts created from the workshop. You can download them here:

<http://www.dwrl.utexas.edu/event/google-earth-workshop>

3. Here are a few sample lesson plans using Google Maps:

<http://instructors.cwrl.utexas.edu/hardy/node/322>

<http://www.dwrl.utexas.edu/students/your-food-story>

<http://www.dwrl.utexas.edu/students/google-mapping-lolita>

4. Here is a sample lesson plans using Google Earth:

<http://www.dwrl.utexas.edu/students/mytexas-google-earth-project>

5. And if you get hooked, check out these blogs on all things map related:

<http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/>

<http://www.googlelittrips.com/GoogleLit/Home.html>