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In this article Brian Croxall introduces the three digital workshops that will be on display at the 2013 MLA. Coxwell gives the importance of each workshop and he explains how they can be helpful while using MLA formating in the classroom. The first workshop entitled Digital Pedagogy Unconference is popularized in academia and is targeted for people who have never used technology in the classroom. The second workshop welcomes scholars who wish to pursue or join digital scholarly projects but do not have the institutional infrastruce to support them. The last workshop entitled ThatCamp is an open, inexspensive meeting where humanists and technoligies of skill levels learn and build together in sessions proposede on the spot.

In this article, William Pannapacker discusses his personal "come to DH moment," his interactions with the field, his concerns about Digital Humanities, and some of the projects appearing that are interesting and address his concerns. One major project highlighted by Pannapacker is the DH Commons project, described "as the match.com for digital humanists." The article ends with a call for uninvolved scholars at institutions, particularly those that do not have DH centers, to utilize these various projects to collaborate and join the digital humanities.

This brief article highlights a major change in the Digital Humanities that occurred in 2012, an MLA release containing standardized guidelines for evaluating work in the Digital Humanities. Those who stand the most to gain from this release are the DH professors themselves, as the guidelines lay some basic ground rules for evaluating this material for the purposes of promotion or gaining tenure. Although the guidelines are non-enforceable, being that they are from the MLA they are likely to be given some weight.

This brief article highlights one of the preconvention workshops that was available for MLA 2012. This workshop was hosted by DHCommons, a digital humanist project intended to facilitate the collaboration of either people in the field of digital humanities or people looking to break into the field. The article contains the full announcement for the workshop, highlighting its purpose, its guests, and those sponsoring the project. Including Texas A&M.

This article by Roger Whitson is a response to calls from groups such as #transformDH to work harder to incorporate marginalized groups. The core of the argument being made is that the Digital Humanities are, by their nature, collaborative and that this will be the means by which the digital humanities is opened fully to marginalized groups. The argument is not that it doesn't need to happen, but that the systems are already in place which will bring it about.

This opportunity is offered electronically to gather information on different games that can be used in teaching literature, languages, and writing. Some of the games are not done digitally but others focus around teaching with video games or social networks. Virtual worlds and spatial games (foursquare, geocaching, ect) will also be used as a teaching method. Selection of people who will be asked to present their findings will be based on different styles of classrooms, student experiences, successes, and failures.

This is an opportunity for people who want to learn more about digital humanities and how to research and teach it. Digital expertises will show their digital projects and form small groups that shows technologies and skills to get started on their digital project. At the end of this event, participants will have a plan how to start their digital humanities project and have resources that can help them in their field.

The core purpose of this article is the promotion of the digital humanities in academia by informing digital humanists how they might be able to better communicate the value of digital humanities. The four main points are: educate the general audience about the subject matter, the need for reviewers to understand the diverse nature of the field, documentating ones role in collaborative projects for the sake of promotion, and explaining the changing nature of peer review in the field. It also briefly addresses the need for institutions to accept new forms of media.

In this Digital Humanities field, collaboration is seen often. The basic idea that two heads are better than one even in projects where there is one official reseracher rings true in this. However, there seems to be an issue to where credit will be given. The MLA "task force" encourages this and states that suspicion should never occur.

With a book about Academia and its issues being faced today, Kathleen Fitzpatrick (director of Scholarly Communications for MLA) brings to question the adaptation education has to take in order to thrive including that of technology. Her blog orientated around her book gives specific to general Digital Humanities example in a theoretical aspect.