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A Chief Ranger of a historical site and a digital media specialist collaborate together to create a class that discusses mobile media design and digital storytelling. The students also visit a historical site weekly and discuss the history of the village during the Fur Trade Era. Special guests are also included in the teachings such as archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians that know more about the history during this era. The students final project is to create an app that shows some aspect of this village during this era. This will help the students learn how to design a digital media that can be accessed mobile.

A Canadian school principle created a website for other principles about why social media is important in the teaching of modern students. The principles write blogs that discuss different types of social medias and how they can be incorporated into practical ways in schools. They want to impact the student's learning with the parents help and this can be done through social medias.

This article focuses on the internet users means for obtaining media via an online archive. The Internet Archive gave peer-to-peer file sharing a major boost by making an array of media immediately available as onBitTorrent for downloading content. By using this means of getting media and other data, users are offered a faster delivery regardless of internet connection.

Dene Grigar developed a way to allow digital media scholars to combine their work from different areas of studies. She found that it helped scholars work together and easily understand other's work. This program gives hands on experience for students that teach them that creating a website is more in depth and can potentially impact the modern society. They also need to understand that each students background is combined and implemented with different teaching methods to create a digital media course.

This site is designed to organize the writings and events that are done by Alan Liu. Alan Liu is an English Professor at the University of California is Santa Barbara. His new media projects have been centered around digital humanities and the progress that it is making in technology. Other projects have focused on the cultural implications of humanities computing and our society as an information technology society. Also, Alan Liu is the founder on the UC New Media Directory that handles text encoding and human computer technology.

This article discusses digital humanities through the works of Todd Carter and his Tagasauris data-curation platform. This program allows people to tag their pictures and other forms of media by the use of crowdsourcing and digital intelligence. He divides Tagasauris into three categories: Findability, Linkability, and Discoverability. With his creation, people such as Valerie Matteau have been able to digitize an art collection, which reveals eighty years of american history such as Correta Scott King's funeral.

This article highlights three large uncertainties of the Micha Cardenas about the digital humanities: is queer new media rare or is analysis of it rare, if there is something "conservative, even sellable" that is present in the digital humanities, and can queer theory, new media, or the digital humanities "disturb hegemonic systems." Although the article does not answer any of these questions, it discusses the history of Queer Theory as "hip, trendy," and its potential reflection in the digital humanities. These questions also arise out of a concern that discussions in digital humanities, particularly CCS, "can run down a road that is very conservative."

Digital Media is always asking for comments on the topics discussed and this article teaches the difference in people who express their opinion and those that are trying to engage in discussion. In a classroom setting he suggests to have students participate in online discussions that make them responsible for showing what they have learned and how to summarize and analyze is properly. Online discussion also allow students to read all the information before saying a comment so that they have listened and taken in everything that has been said. In a classroom she suggest to divide the class into three groups that consist of "first responders," "arguers," and "consensus builders." Also she wants to teach social citation that requires students to cite posts from other students which they support. Online learning also allows students who are afraid to speak up in class to discuss without feeling embarrassed.

In this short description, reCAPTCHA is described as a free service that aims to digitize media, such as books, radio shows, and newspapers. With the ability to determine if the user is actually human, the archive is attempting to archive basic human knowledge and make information more accessible.

With the use of digitizing media, NASA and Internet Archive are teaming up to scan films and photographs into an online database where their information can be stored and accessed with easy use. Making this kind of information available online, NASA believes, is important to catagorizing information and storing it for effiecient use. Internet Archive will be using a new system where the media catagorized by historical significance.

The two annoted biblographies present in this publication document sparks future discussions toward the activity of modeling the social edition. THis annotated biblography first explores reading devices, tools and social media issues and second, social networking tools for professional readers in the Humanities.

This is a post on the website AIMS, the Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies. The author of this posting is informing the website users of the symposium coming up hosted by the Miami University Libraries entitled "What is Digital Humanities?" Symposium, sponsored by the MU Humanities Center, on October 23rd from 3:00-6:30pm in King 320. The posting explains that "this symposium will be a chance for faculty, graduate students, and librarians to think about the implications, practices, and uses of Digital Humanities and digital collections."

Marche's article criticizes digital humanists for a perceived failure to adequately address the human and interpretive nature of literature by treating it as data. Two core issues identified by Marche is that literature, unlike statistics, is terminally incomplete - that parts frequently are missing or shifting - and that data mining efforts fail to account for context in literature. Marche argues that current data mining efforts are flawed because "algorithms are inherently fascistic" and that "meaning is mushy." Marche does not oppose digitization efforts and in fact welcomes the translation of texts into digital formats, rather Marche argues that literary meaning cannot be as readily quantified as numbers - that "insight remains handmade."

This short article for the 2012 American Studies Association Annual Meeting represents a call for digital humanists to collaborate and propose ways in which American Studies and Digital Humanities can be transformed to be better address concerns such a marginalization. Provided proof that this is possible, the article highlights such "digital collectives and social movements" such as Crunk Feminist Collective, "shit [people] say" and artists offering a "productive [exploration] of digital productions and methods." The article also highlights in particular the #transformDH movement, and provides links to some of the articles and websites utilized by the group.

GeaCron is a project for mapping the entire world with not just the geography, but the history of the locations as well. Its purpose is to provide a map where researchers and students can select a time period and see what historical events were occurring at that same time period all over the world in as many countries as possible. Currently, the maps cover political events starting at 3000 BC, and the newest events being archived for modern day will be available at the start of 2013. The maps allow for a variety of features including relief maps, zooming, navigating in time, and embedding digital media sites to further enrich the information on the geographical areas through time.

In a 21st Century Media class an instructor conducted an experiment that allowed the students and professor to live tweet their class session, which she deemed a success. The students had an assigned reading that they were to find a method and be able to prepare it to the class. She informed them what a meaningful tweet would be that would be able to add to the online discussion. The purpose of this assignment was to show how twitter can be used academically. Students in the class were able to multitask by discussing online with each other and also in the classroom setting.

Exquisite Corpora is a Tumblr page created by the Harvard metaLAB. The participants are to be in teams of three and craft a detailed abstract for a proposal to a scholarly press based on the genre, platform, and audience cards that they received at the metaLAB grad school. Each one Includes one piece of media (an image, audio file, video, interactive piece, etc.) that illustrates their concept. They have 45 minutes to research, discuss, and compose their proposals before they upload it to the Tumblr. These are similar to the lightning talks we discussed in class.

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.