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6 Things to Consider when Building a Dataset from Scratch

admin 07/07/2013

This post is about my experiences at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) held at the University of Victoria, June 5-10 2013.   Last month I attended my first DHSI on UVic’s idyllic campus. In just five days I became proficient in the notoriously difficult ArcGIS; moved my research several, big steps forward; and met some wonderful folks working on amazing projects. The course I was enrolled in, “Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in the Digital… 6 Things to Consider when Building a Dataset from Scratch

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“Learning from Nature”

admin 17/01/2013

I attended a recent MLA roundtable on Sustainability and Pedagogy that had me thinking (again) about the relationship between the environmental/ecocritical content some of us teach and the ways in which we teach that content. As eco-conscious teachers, it’s often difficult to help students find a place between the paralysis caused by feelings of helplessness about environmental degradation and the glorification of “Nature” as something pure and, therefore, worthy of preservation. My larger research project… “Learning from Nature”

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