Comments on: Episode 56 – Past Play

By: an R&D agenda for embodied interaction in DH? | THATCamp Virginia 2010

an R&D agenda for embodied interaction in DH? | THATCamp Virginia 2010 — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 18:29:59 +0000

[…] on hacking wearables and e-textiles at THATCamp Great Lakes, we had fun with this stuff at the #pastplay symposium, and I gave away freebies at the last THATCamp […]

By: weblog.histnet.ch » Blog Archive » Playing With History

weblog.histnet.ch » Blog Archive » Playing With History — Thu, 13 May 2010 20:26:13 +0000

[…] Perhaps the most interesting paper draft delivered at the conference came not from a historian, but from a professor English–Steve Ramsey of the University of Nebraska. Ramsey’s paper, “What do you do with a million books?” proposes: “There are so many books. There is so little time. Your ethical obligation is neither to read them all nor to pretend that you have read them all, but to understand each path through the vast archive as an important moment in the world’s duration—as an invitation to community, relationship, and play.” Focusing on the path rather than the destination is certainly a challenge for those of us trained in more traditional research methods, but given the swelling flood of humanities content online, we may well have to heed Ramsey’s argument. All the drafts of the papers, which one day soon will appear in a book tentatively titled Past Play, are available on the conference website. A discussion with the conference organizers can be heard on the Digital Campus podcast. […]

By: Where’s the Beef? Does Digital Humanities Have to Answer Questions? : Found History

Wed, 12 May 2010 17:12:39 +0000

[…] but only in the back of its mind and only for later. We need time to experiment and even—as we discussed recently with Bill Turkel and Kevin Kee on Digital Campus—time to […]

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 11 May 2010 20:28:07 +0000

The rhetoric on game based learning might indeed be overblown… but how many *real* examples of game based learning at the university level – examples of actual students, in actual classes, for actual grades & whatever other incentives – actually exist? Something I meant to ask on the day… 🙂

Shawn

By: Derek Bruff

Derek Bruff — Mon, 10 May 2010 17:36:45 +0000

Thanks for sharing your #pastplay experiences. I particularly liked hearing about the mobile app developed for exploring the War of 1812. I'm teaching a first-year writing seminar on the history and math of cryptography this fall, and I've been thinking about using smart phones as part of an end-of-semester cryptography hunt around campus, perhaps using scvngr or BlockChalk. After hearing about Kevin's app, I'm even more enthusiastic about doing something along these lines!