June 2013 archive

Jun 24

Choosing #Hashtags

By Erin E. Templeton It’s no secret that ProfHackers are fond of Twitter. Ryan Cordell wrote a thorough and helpful post on “How to Start Tweeting (And Why You Might Want To.” Mark Sample has offered a pedagogical framework on teaching with Twitter as well as <a target=_blank href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/practical-advice-for-teaching-with-twitter/26416" …read more

Jun 21

Travel Mishaps: Name (Mis)Spelling Edition

By Erin E. Templeton Last week, I was fortunate enough to attend the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria. I had been looking forward to the trip for months. I was enrolled in a class on TEI and Primary Sources, I knew a few colleagues and friends would …read more

Jun 20

Ph.D. Placement Project

By Erin E. Templeton Regular readers of the Chronicle are surely familiar with the ongoing discussion about the merits of graduate education both generally and in the humanities more specifically. Whatever your position on the “Go! / Don’t Go!” debate (note: two different links), one thing is clear: more information about …read more