Liberal Arts Digital Research

Anyone have a Smart Cover on their iPad 2?

Ties in with Cori Wong's discussion at #LASTS11

I thought you would be interested in seeing this. There are a variety of different camps focused on the use of technology in the humanities. They are organized as unconferences, meaning that topics are often spontaneous and the events are very cheap. Look at the list - there is one on pedagogy, one on games, etc...

Among educators, Eric Sheninger is something of a social networking hero. The principal of New Milford (N.J.) High School has nearly 12,300 Twitter followers (his handle: @NMHS_Principal). He and his teachers use Facebook to communicate with students and parents, and students use it to plan events.

Description and evaluation of latex apps for ipad.

I use latex to typeset all my academic work, rather than using Word. One big advantage of using latex is it's handling of math. In political science a large number of people (including at least 6 faculty in our department and half our grad students) use it as their word processing app of choice. You create a tex file and "tex" it our process it. There are a handful of latex editing apps for the ipad (tex files are just ascii so code be produced using other apps). There is no way to process it on the ipad. However, there are some websites that will handle the processing (scribtex.com) or presumably you can do this with some app that gives you remote control of your mac and run it after putting it in dropbox. I'll be investigating this further.

An open journal in the humanities. Perhaps this is a venue in which we might consider submitting material in the spirit of Stuart Selber's questions about publication.

Nice blog entry about Sente by @targuman, including sync between multiple users. Highly recommended! http://t.co/mxQkNiK