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Those machines are only upgraded, you know, once a month on Patch Tuesday, Microsoft might send out some patches or they're done by the IT department. They get a full upgrade, let's say once a summer to put new applications on it. And they might not be, the applications, not the OS, might be patched once a year. And so... |
And one of the things I've been thinking about is taking something like the Wii remote controller, which allows the game player to control the action on the screen using a handheld remote. Using something like that to set up virtual historical experimental reconstructions of iconic experiments like Boyle's air pump exp... |
It's free. It's free and open source. And I really encourage people to take a look at it. It's a Mac-only product, but I also probably should mention, this is sort of more of a tip than a pick. In general, Photoshop is something that the new Photoshop CS3 I was just looking on Amazon costs about 650 bucks. And, you kno... |
From the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. This is Digital Campus, featuring Tom, for February the 19th, 2010. What's the buzz? Well, welcome back to the podcast. This is the snowpocalypse edition of Digital Campus. If you've followed the news at all about the greater Washington metropolitan ... |
And, you know, it didn't really work. You know, I think I've been trying to put my finger on why I've become increasingly annoyed with Google. And I don't want it to be just a black and white thing where they're a giant tech company and we have to be mad at them, just like we were mad at Microsoft in the 1990s and IBM ... |
So Google is, it seems to me like, if you think of Google as a person, as a character, it's kind of transitioning from being, they used to have a kind of an academic personality, you know. They were run by Larry and Sergey, who were engineering PhD students, and they had all these kind of idealistic things that they wo... |
The principal, the administration of the school is there to serve the students, not the other way around, whereas in a corporation, I mean, the employees are there to serve the owner, the shareholders, whoever it is, and they serve at the pleasure of those people. School is, I think, a little different in that way. I h... |
But it is true that e-books are becoming more and more important and of interest to all kinds of people. But it seems to me from the standpoint of the library business, the main attraction is storage of books and the preservation of books, that it could potentially significantly reduce those overhead costs if we move i... |
And I pity the library directors who have to kind of make purchasing decisions on, you know, what digital environment they're going to subscribe to. Or, you know, at least a book, it sits on the shelf. You can always access it. That's my rant. Speaking as a university administrator, I have to say this whole discussion ... |
From the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, this is Digital Campus, a bi-weekly discussion of how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities, libraries, and museums. Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for ... |
Really a comprehensive, and of course this works on an iPod Touch as well, a whole suite that lets you know what's going on on campus, includes a campus map. I think there's some location-based services. There's the whole university course catalog. So I got to believe that there's going to be a lot of universities with... |
But let's move on and see what we have to say about that topic. Well, as we all unfortunately know by this point, the Dow is way, way down, 60% as we speak from its all-time high. And down also are campus endowments, often many cases 20, 30, 40%. And state budgets are down, of course, and in crisis, hurting universitie... |
But it does seem to me that having a technology angle to something like a history major or a art major, let's say in digital, who understands how to use Photoshop extremely well, or any other major that sort of takes advantage of digital technology, it at least gives those undergraduates another possible outlet for emp... |
It uses their moderator web service, which is a web service to help you organize group discussions and conference discussions and other things. But they've used that technology to build something called Tip Jar. We'll post the link in the show notes. It's a little bit of a ponderous link. But it's a place where you can... |
From the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. This is Digital Campus, featuring Tom the 8th of December 2009. The Twubble with Twucklers. And we're here with the 49th edition of the Digital Campus Podcast, quickly approaching the celebratory 50th special. What is that, the gold platinum annivers... |
I occasionally find it information overload. You know, I occasionally have to shut it down because I just can't watch the speaker and think and watch the Twitter stream and all of this at once. And that seems to me a separate issue. But in general, I love the idea of someone who's up there giving a paper and there's ju... |
So that, I do worry about this a little bit. My biggest concern on this issue has everything to do with the job market. Because, okay, faculty members who have tenure are completely insulated in many ways from the consequences of people snarking about them. Okay, people want to snark about my conference stuff. I'm fine... |
And they also came out with a new, interestingly, not a scripting language, but a real kind of root hardcore coding language that would compete with something like C or C++ called Google Go. And also Eric Schmidt talked a little bit about their obsession with speed in a Wall Street Journal op-ed this week, which was a ... |
I mean, they're trying to say on Chrome OS, sort of the browser becomes your entire desktop. And it's just got a bunch of tabs. And so you could imagine very easily a bunch of cheap Chrome OS devices, I don't want to call them laptops because I assume they'll come in all shapes and sizes, but you know that you could us... |
And in this case, I think for deep reading, this really helps. Often your eye is distracted. I mean, the other great thing about readability, and I use it almost daily, is it gives you a print style sheet as well. So if you want to print out the article, it has a great print style sheet. I didn't realize that. Huh, eve... |
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Fear itself. Fear itself. Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. This is Digital Campus, episode 57, for June 10th, 2010. Fight Club Soap. Well, welcome to another edition of Digital Campus from the Center for History and New Media. It's the show with... |
I think that this, really the big story for me is that this phone has a screen that is to older phones what the laser printer was to dot matrix printing, if you remember that from the 80s. When that first laser printer came out, which cost $10,000 from Apple, but when you looked at it, you were astonished that you coul... |
Well, to some extent, snickering. But also, one of the things, I mean, and this is not something that Steve Jobs would admit directly, I don't think, but this new phone is, in some respects, a response to the challenge of Android, though. I mean, there are features, certainly in the operating system, which, I mean, mul... |
One is that lots of people seem to hate not only their calendaring systems, but their room scheduling systems. And that the notion that this could somehow replace whatever third party or proprietary software people are using, or in some cases, no system at all for scheduling the rooms, is I think, incredibly, it speaks... |
People are thinking about Google Docs can just get like a taste of what real office is like on their live series seven XP, whatever, online live version. But I think there's something to these applications. I've just my shorthand for them is, you know, fog applications. They're sort of like, you know, sort of in the cl... |
How much are we spending on online journals now? I think we're going to look back at this and see this is one of sort of those crucial moments in a trend away from paying these just obscene journal subscription fees, especially because more and more, even though, as Amanda says, it was a reputation-based economy on thi... |
From the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, this is Digital Campus, a bi-weekly discussion of how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities, libraries, and museums. Ask not what your country can do, 2008. Making it count, I'm here ... |
And so those books are in the public domain. And really what this means for us in the digital world is those books can be put online and made full text available for free. And so it's, I think, really critical to kind of look at this gray period. But the problem was that we didn't really have good records, and they cer... |
But I just – basically I couldn't take it anymore. And so I decided I would write a series of posts in which I speculated a little bit about this business of counting and what it meant for historians doing digital work. And so – and I tried to be a little more deliberative or thoughtful maybe than I have in some of my ... |
And so in that way, the tool was a kind of bridge that got me to scholarship that would not have been possible without the tool. So in that case, you know, and I've talked about this with a lot of people, or some of the software projects that we have at the center, that I try to tell scholars who are in the tenure trac... |
And the Creative Commons case studies wiki, it's basically a database of case studies of people who have used Creative Commons on their projects. That can help you make this decision. So basically, this is a place where people who have used Creative Commons and released things under Creative Commons licenses have gone ... |
From the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, this is Digital Campus, a bi-weekly discussion of how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities, libraries, and museums. Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for ... |
So I think libraries have learned from that and are saying we desperately don't want to get into that situation with Google, where Google is in a position to dictate the price to us. So I don't know whether, however, that I'm sure that is a concern that they're discussing among themselves. I don't know whether the judg... |
And so you'll see on a lot of sites kind of wavy, squished-up words that come out of books that are being scanned as part of the Google Books project and other projects. Internet Archive actually was part of the reCAPTCHA system as well. And by solving those words, transcribing them by hand, you are effectively digitiz... |
This seems to say to me, well, you know, a nice, slick, good operating system for Microsoft still matters. Yeah, I think you can't count them out. I just, I think it's too easy. And frankly, historically speaking, this is their pattern, right? I mean, you have 98, and then you had me, and then you had XP, and then you ... |
I mean, if the library is sort of a knowledge center for the institution or for a community, librarians continue to have a role in helping people navigate through, even if everything's online, even if everything's searchable through Google or something else, there's still a need for human assistance in directing us tow... |
This is a good place to look for some models. There's about 99 today. The database contains 99. There's about 100 different policies here and you can just surf through those to get an idea of what other organizations are doing in terms of managing this online communication that I think scares a lot of people and in som... |
From the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, this is Digital Campus, a bi-weekly discussion of how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities, libraries, and museums. Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for ... |
I wonder, though, are we talking about apples and oranges here? I mean, isn't, you know, I guess the IBM Symphony story, there is a direct competitor, i mean that's downloaded applications it's really a direct replacement for your um you know for your installation that runs on your computer that you can take on an airp... |
In particular, I get this from my students. They just aren't going to pay for content online. They've come through this system for the last five or six years where there is a tremendous amount of free content that is perfectly good. And so since what they found is perfectly good, why would they pay for premium service?... |
So posts that were really off topic were kept off the list. It acted as a filter. We have filters all throughout academia and journal editors and peer review. What is the problem there? I mean, what has changed and what are your concerns? Well, I have kind of two concerns about it that I raised in the blog post. One is... |
I mean, I think whenever any new technology comes along, especially communications technologies, I think the history of technology is rife with these examples. Everybody says, oh, well, you know, TV is going to be the death of radio. Well, we see that radio is still around. It may not be quite as prominent as it was be... |
China is black in this map. They have all sorts of different takes on cartography that not only the creator of the blog has put in, but other people have pointed him to. It's an academic's take or a more precise take on this cartography. It's not just, hey, look at this funny map. But here's a map. Here's the context w... |
From the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, this is Digital Campus, a bi-weekly discussion of how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities, libraries, and museums. Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for ... |
But they're now actually cutting off wireless and wired access in their classrooms at the University of Chicago Law School. Good idea? Bad idea? Boy, students, you know, they're bringing their laptops. They're clicking away. I assume they're not taking notes all the time from a professor's perspective. Surely there's o... |
So it's not like that. Anderson proposes in this article a whole series of different models for a new free economy. So, for instance, the one I think has the most relevance for higher education is what he calls the cross-subsidy model, where essentially what I'm proposing is that we ought to just go ahead and give away... |
And if you like it,, you give money and we'll have to have some kind of membership drive. So it is a very difficult problem to solve and I don't think anybody's come up with any real good solutions yet. Yeah, you know, I think there was a great post and I'll link to to this from digitalcampus.tv, a great post on the Op... |
All right. Thanks, Tom. Well, I'd like to do my part to, this was this past week, included RSS Day, which was a day organized decentrally around the Internet to try to get more people to understand what the heck RSS is and to use it more. And I think the three of us were used to seeing things pop up in Google Reader or... |
From the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, this is Digital Campus, a bi-weekly discussion of how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities, libraries, and museums. Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for ... |
Collective intelligence and social operating systems. So here we've got, you know, collective intelligence. They mentioned Wikipedia, community tagging also seems a lot Web 2.0-y, and social operating systems. Maybe I didn't quite get this one, but, you know, it seems like, again, the impact of kind of the social graph... |
So in the wake of that, a major concern for our agency and for a lot of our partners and people in the community, in the arts organizations, but of course those in education, has been how is this trend of reading less? Is it seen extensively throughout various other types of studies, as well as what are some of the imp... |
And I don't think it's easy or self-evident. This is where I think a historical perspective becomes helpful. Because once you start to delve into the history of the book and the history of reading and you take that long view, in some ways, the conversation that we're having today, it's the kind of conversation that's h... |
But when you control for various factors such as those, you see that invariably those who read also engage more intensely in their communities. So what I would do is I think what we would like to say is that it's really, it starts with the parents. It starts with the family to, you know, read in front of your kids, rea... |
Very well done. Very traditional site. Nothing terribly revolutionary in terms of the technology, but clear, well done, and I recommend it. Great. And, of course, we will have that link along with the other links that we mentioned on this podcast on our website, digitalcampus.tv. And feel free to surf over there to lea... |
From the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, this is Digital Campus, featuring Tom Sheinfeld, Mills Kelly, Amanda French, and Dan Cohen. You ask what you can do for your country. Here it goes. This is Digital Campus number 62, recorded on November the 8th, 2010. PDA in the library? Well, welcom... |
Yeah, I will say that the only problem I've had with this assignment that I came up all these years ago is that I used to say to my students, okay, find an entry on the subject that we're working on that either needs to be elaborated on or there is no entry and so you need to write one. And as Wikipedia is getting buil... |
It'll probably be a little bit, but I think it will begin to emerge. But I wonder the degree to which whatever emerges is then direct competition to the mission and purpose of the Library of Congress. And at what point then that's going to be coming up with a national plan for preserving digital infrastructure. It's go... |
If two or three users select the same book and spend some time browsing it or printing out parts of it, that can be a trigger event. You can set a number of different options for what demonstrates enough interest on the part of your users. But a lot of librarians are trying this and with fairly good results. They can b... |
You know, I assume we'll get a lot of that. You know, I kind of wonder what will happen to libraries of the size we have here at Mason, you know, the one to two million volume, you know, pretty much recent, you know, past 100 years, you know, doesn't have a deep catalog of rare books. You know, past 100 years, you know... |
So I thought that it would be like this rare case where somebody would want the huger than huge plan. And this actually relates to something that we didn't put in the lineup, but that I'll just mention. It's similar to a university going to Google Apps or Google Email, which I noticed a couple of universities did this ... |
From the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, this is Digital Campus, featuring Tom Sheinfth of December, 2010. The Year in Review 2010. And it is time for the fourth annual Big Stories of the Year Roundup here on the Digital Campus Podcast, something we love to do every December. I'm Dan Cohen,... |
Oh, man, that's such a good point. Particularly Flickr Commons, which I love so much. And as I was scanning through the stories over the past year that we covered on Digital Campus, I got reminded of a lot of things. One of which was that Flickr Commons a while ago had decided not to accept new partners until 2011. Aga... |
Yeah, they probably did, didn't they, in their new messaging? Right, their new messaging system where they're going to kind of bring all that stuff together. But what they're going to do is they're going to do it in a way that's kind of accessible and that's going to be easy for everybody to grok, not just the Uber gee... |
And that's actually been really interesting to me too, particularly because Kindle, I think, did it exactly right where they had a Kindle app, which you can get, I think, for Android as well as for iPhone. And it's kind of amazing that those don't compete, right? You can use your phone as an e-reader and or still get a... |
So I think there's a lot going on with the device that was pretty important. And I think the price was important, too, to really mainstream it. Yeah, well, I think its effect on libraries, archives, museums, and universities is yet to be determined. There's a couple of pilot programs with the iPad at a couple of univer... |
That in itself is news, but I think in 2011, I want to see what comes of that. I'm interested to see what exactly they're going to fund. Because $20 million in this space is a lot of money. I mean, it puts them very near the top of the table with the Department of Ed and with Hewlett and with MacArthur and with Mellon ... |
From the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, this is Digital Campus, a bi-weekly discussion of how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities, libraries, and museums. Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for ... |
I mean, it looks more like a peer-to-peer network. Am I right about that? Some way for teachers to sort of share, let's say, lesson plans or curricula. It's a little unclear, but it's at teachers.yahoo.com. Has anyone taken a look at this? Yeah, I looked at this because as soon as I heard about it, because this is actu... |
I think that's going to be a real challenge. Oh, it's going to be a tremendous challenge. It speaks to the issue we're about to discuss after the break of information overload. I mean, just the example I gave, you know, what do you do to a student, or what do you tell a student that's, you know, looking at a thousand V... |
Our jobs are to do whatever it is we're doing, teaching or researching or writing or managing humanities projects. And so I do find it really useful. I've developed some tricks to kind of stay away from my email at times. I mean, one of the good things is to just say to yourself when you wake up in the morning, I'm not... |
I'm not ready to declare email bankruptcy yet, and I think I've kind of gotten it under control because one of the things I've done is just every email that I read now, I ask myself, do I really have to respond to this? I mean are they really looking for a response? And I never send email anymore that says thanks for t... |
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From the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, this is Digital Campus, a bi biweekly discussion of how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities, libraries, and museums. Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do fo... |
So I think probably a lot of that content will remain on YouTube. Well, we also saw in the past couple of weeks, speaking of lawsuits, and we'll try not to turn this podcast into all the all lawsuit edition, although inevitably some of these things come up. I think there's actually a very interesting lawsuit going on r... |
No, and can't legally sign a legal document. Exactly. They're minors. So it seems really bizarre. And my understanding of the copyright law is anything they produce, it's theirs. I mean, they don't even have to put a copyright notice on it. So I think they've got a very, very good case. Although I assume that, you know... |
So I think the way you can think about it is, I think it's much like the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web, the protocols, the servers, the web browser itself, all these tools gel together to create, I think, something larger than all of its individual pieces. And of course, the individual pieces were around before th... |
You know, the ACLS report points out, you know, one of their eight points is to encourage digital scholarship. And, you know, I think part of the big problem right now is there's not a lot of professors out there who kind of know about cyber infrastructure, care about cyber infrastructure, know what it would do for the... |
And that integration, I mean, I think what's really interesting about the next five years is the integration of that incredibly well-vetted professional expert knowledge with the kind of wild web and how you bridge those two areas. I think, Mills, I'm glad you raised this question. I think, you know, it is kind of a cl... |
From the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, this is Digital Campus, a bi biweekly discussion of how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities, libraries, and museums. Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do fo... |
We try not to be snooty about it. On the other hand, we know that there are situations where it can come in handy just from a reputational point of view even though we might not know as much as, let's say, a very committed amateur. Tom, you've written about this on your blog, but there are professors who study the Civi... |
Well, I think choice of materials and courses is, in fact, part of our featured story that's coming up. So why don't we move to that right now? Well, one of the resources that is making its way into the classroom, I suppose whether faculty like it or not, is YouTube. And I think there's been a lot of news recently that... |
So I stopped the video and said, well, let's talk about that for a minute. Why do you think that's funny? And one of them said, well, that's just ridiculous music to put in something so serious. You should change that. And I said, what do you mean? And he said, you should strip out that sound and put in something more ... |
You can also probably just go to iTunes and search for Byzantine, and it'll probably be the only thing. I don't think there are a lot of Byzantine ruler podcasts out there. Yeah, I don't know. But, you know, in fact, this one is actually pretty popular. You know, it's really popular. We can only hope to be so popular. ... |
From the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, this is Digital Campus, a bi-weekly discussion of how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities, libraries, and museums. Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for ... |
I mean, I don't know all of the details, so I can't pronounce whether he was guilty or innocent on this, but it's a case of, I think, a younger generation of students taking the platform, which they're very confident with and very comfortable with, and using it to do something that we want them to do, which is work col... |
But not bad considering all the vacations and intercessions and spring break, so to only miss a few is not too bad. And we wanted to sort of take this first year anniversary podcast as a time to kind of do a little self-assessment, self-criticism, and also to encourage our audience to help us out and think about ways t... |
Yeah, the sound is an interesting question because I think what we realized early on is that sound quality in a podcast is like design on a website. And there's this sort of unconscious aspect to it where people say, oh, this is something professional. You know, in the first split second, when you look at a website, yo... |
These are all kind of mystery questions for me as well. Well, let's see. So I guess we're going to ask for everyone's help this week. And we do hope that we get 30 or 40 or 50 responses on this. And just I guess we all want to say thanks again for tuning in. We're looking forward to another year here at the podcast. An... |
From the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, this is Digital Campus, a bi biweekly discussion of how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities, libraries, and museums. Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do fo... |
Yeah, and I think the overall conclusion of the meeting was that the important thing about these centers is that they do have a kind of expertise that's been cultivated over the years that I think other faculty and students and others in the humanities can really benefit from, and they're not benefiting from right now.... |
I suppose that's the use case for it. Also this week, we saw the launch of Google My Maps, and we've been doing a lot of these Google Maps mashups, and we've discussed it, I believe, on an earlier podcast. But I think what's exciting here is, for those who haven't seen it yet, it's become suddenly much easier for peopl... |
I get the sense that email is something that they use with grown-ups, and Facebook is something that they use with their peers. And so being in that space I think really helps put you more – tie you more closely to the rest of their lives, which I think is always a good thing for education. Another thing I've noticed i... |
I think they ignore me entirely. Oh, really? Okay, well, that's pretty interesting. Yeah, I don't think that my presence changes their behavior at all. Because I think that behavior is so firmly ingrained, I think they just pretend that I'm not there. Yeah, me too. And I just, well, I hope they haven't changed their be... |
And it's just digitalhumanities, all one word, .pbwiki.com. And we're going to be slowly building out that site. People who attended the conference, and actually the general public as well, will be building out the site with information about the digital humanities centers where it's being practiced, tools we use and t... |
From the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, this is Digital Campus, a bi-weekly discussion of how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities, libraries, and museums. Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for ... |
You know, they actually have Chris DeBono, sort of a very famous open source developer who kind of leads their efforts toward openness. And at the same time, they're sort of closed-fisted with some of their materials, particularly the kinds of materials that we're talking about right now. You know, before we get on to ... |
We're recording this, our audience should know, as the stock market tank. So, yes, everything you have will be worth the paper it's printed on, but we'll know a lot more about the digital world, won't we, when this is over. Fortunately, the stock of Digital Campus hasn't budged. Right, yeah. We haven't gone IPO yet, so... |
And in fact, there are even specialist users, race car drivers and truck drivers, who are even better just plain users of the technology than your average driver. And so I think in many ways, it's a little much for us to expect that this technology would be any different from an earlier technology. I think probably we'... |
Well, and it really suggests for, I mean, beyond, you know, us professors, I mean, I think think really suggests a role for librarians and information specialists to have the kinds of training opportunities. And I know these are out there, but, you know, I realize I don't spend a week at the library with an information... |
And good luck with all those natives in your classes, and we'll talk to you again in a couple of weeks on another episode of Digital Campus. Fear itself! Fear itself! Fear itself! Ask what you can do for your country. Share it, though! |
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