Author: Diane Jakacki
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Crowdsourcing Tarlton’s Jests
I’ve been considering best ways to develop practices that assist in collaborative digital edition production. Over on the Tarlton Project site I’ve started the ball rolling with some thoughts about crowdsourcing Tarlton’s Jests that might lead somewhere. Or not. Feedback requested.
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Review of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan My rating: 3 of 5 stars A gentle and sweet book about books and knowledge and secrets and computers (and computers!) and codes and … bookstores. I really enjoyed it as I read it, but unfortunately it was in fits and starts so I never really engaged with…
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Student Digital Edition: Observations & Reflections
I’ve written before about the final project I assigned to my students for this term’s ENGL1102: Shakespeare’s English Histories course. The assignment was an ambitious experiment to see how students would collaborate on a digital edition of the Queen’s Men play The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth. I haven’t yet assessed the students’ final artifacts,…
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A Thanksgiving Lego Battle for Middle Earth
One of the highlights of my Thanksgiving was playing through the Lego Lord of the Rings video game with my nine year-old nephew. I’ve been considering using the game as part of a module on interaction design for my spring course, and so tricked him into helping me field test it. It took us two…