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Includes rubrics, reflections, and examples of blogging with students in practice.

Bernhard's Blog - Watch here for interesting twitter tools in the near future.

"students are directed to unpack their own selfies for signifiers of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and other identity markers, and to write a thesis-driven essay based on this analysis"

"Born-digital, open source, media-rich scholarly publishing that's as easy as blogging." Seems to have some interesting possibilities for innovative publications and visualisations.

"What we need is a tool that helps us discover, contextualize, and discuss scholarship, not just see how many times it has been cited or how influential a given journal may be. The need to contextualize and interrogate research is far more important than the ability to generate bibliographies or find the most popular articles" " This is where Bibliopedia comes in. Bibliopedia provides an infrastructure for advanced data-mining and cross-referencing of scholarly literature to create a humanities-centered collaboration and research discovery platform"

Open source tool for working with "cultural and historical texts"

MOOCs

A piece that explores the ability to 'fork the academy' using tools like github. What would make this kind of collaboration an academic reality?

"the Ransom Center has adopted an open access policy, removing the requirement for permission and use fees for a significant portion of its online collections believed to be in the public domain. In conjunction with the release of the policy, the Ransom Center launches Project REVEAL (Read and View English and American Literature), a year-long initiative to digitize and make available 25 of its manuscript collections of some of the best-known names from American and British literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."