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How to earn your Cyber Stripes is a short write up on the five ways in which students can earn their stripes. Like the Show your Badge article students can go online and show how much they have retained within a given semester. This gesture helps students develop credibility in their specific subject areas which will eventually help them find jobs with their career field. The five subject areas being testing on this particular website is mostly pertaining to science and math. This is very useful for people who are looking to hire students who are qualified in those areas.

This article is one of my favorites! Ms. Knowles chose to ask a question that could not be aswered....until they found a way by means of digital humanities. The questions was simply this, "What could General Grant see in his view at Gettysburg?" This question sparked a menas to find an answer by digitally mapping the terrain at the time on the battle in coordination with Grant's height/ location. This success led to a Project wtih Knowles and Paul Jaskot concerning the concentration camp, Auschwitz, and another similar project done about the Salem Witch Trials by Benjamin Ray. Such great research and visual representations.

Anne Kelly Knowles, a geographer at Middlebury College in Vermont, posed a simple question that could not be accurately answered before: What could the confederate general Robert E. Lee actually see during the battle of Gettysburrg. In order to answer this question Ms. Knowles team began by creating a digital map of the areas topography at the time of the battle. Then, the group as whole began to replicate the view Lee would have had by generating what is known as a viewshed from a point 75feeet above the terrain the distance from the ground to the cupid floor plus Lee's eye level standing in his.

The study examines the relationship between use of facebook, a popular online social network site, and the formation and maintenace of social capital. A dimensipon of socail capitalis explored that accesses one's ability to stay connected with memebers of a previously inhabited community. A survey of undergraduate students suggest a strong association between use of facebook and the three types of social capital, with the strongest being to bridging social capital.

This artical poses the question of "Why do people join virtual communities?" Across 27 communities in 5 different broad types, 569 different from 399 people indicatged that most sought either friendship or exchange of information, and a markedly lower percent sought social support lower or recreation. In all the communities types information exchange was the most popular reasoning for joining.

Comment Press is an experiment into the organization of digital ext with a desire to promote social interaction within and around it. Comment Press offers us the oppurtunity to resituate the problem of electronic publishing in a potential producttive way.

Todays youth are spending a great deal of time using social ntworks such as Facebook, Myspace, and Bebo. These networks access public life which are things we do on an everyday bases. This article seeks to explore the social dynamics of mediated public life in order to help educators understand their role in socialising in today's youth.

In this article a group of researchers are asked to describe the function that their blogs will serve to them and researchers that are going to viewing their blogs. These researchers blogs are motivated by the possibility to share knowledge, aid creativity and provide a feeling of being connected in their research. Ultimately the analysis brings out the blog's combination of function and possibility it offers to each multiple audience.

James J. O'Donnel wrote this insert in the Chronicle Review in order to see how people respond to reading on Kindle. O'Donnel discovered that in contemporary America more and more readers are purchasing kindles because they are very accessible and very affordable. This insert explores the various opinions from different professors and students who find kindle affective. These reviews helps O'Donnel come to the conclusion that kindles should be used for replacement of Text books.

The Digital Public lIbrary of America (DPLA) is an ambitious project intedned to make the cultural and scientific heritage of humanity available free or charge to all. With the Hubs Pilot, the DPLA will undertake the first efforts to establish a national network out of these and other promising intitives bringing together digitaized content from across the country into a singlr access for end users.

It is in this article that the authors Shao Jufang and Shew Huiyan try to find out the outflow of excellent papers and then take measures to stem this flow. They illuminate the academic reward structure in place in China and its most interesting details. While Shao and Shen do not report the salary ranges of Chinese scientists they do describe how the payments work as incentives for publishing. The Shao and Shen article helps Phil Davis the author of Does the Chinese model make sense build his counter argument. This is why this article can also be referenced throughout Davis article.

This study highlights the need for raising teacher's awareness of ER-based reading comprehension questions. This study was conducted to determine how frequently critical thinking is used in EFL reading comprehension contexts at the tertiary level in an Iranian University. To collect the data, the researchers observed all reading comprehension courses in one of the universities in Isfan Province. They recorded 30 percent of the total number of sessions using two mini-size MP4 wireless recorders during the spring semester. The findings suggested that the teachers focus on each CRQ type strongly influences student attention when reading different passages.

The author of this sort insert critiques Steven Marinos article entitled Literature is Not Data: Against Digital Humanites. In a sarcastic way the author argues against what Marino is saying he believes that Literature can be used is as Data ans suggest that everyone who is apart of the Humanites has encounter the same obstacles with people who love to read books. Reading books online does not take away the credibility of the work and Marino overlooks this issue.

In the article Literature Is Not Data: Against Digital Humanities Marche explains how literature will at some point become data and how we will soon be able to read anything, anywhere, at anytime. Marche argues that literature is not data, and that it cannot be meaningfully treated as data. Instead, he believes that literature is the opposite of data and that data precedes written literature. Marche develops this "idea" that literature is terminally incomplete, and that you can not record even most of literature, even English literature. He assumes, that huge swath of the tradition are absent or in ruins.

Peter Gatkouth an immigration specialist working with the work relief in high point North Carolina helps legal immigrants stay connected with their families. This particular project was sponsored by the Wake Forest University and funded in part by the Humanities council. The Humanities council uses digital material to encourage a new approach to understanding of immigration, with a renewed focus on the lives and experiences of those who are already here. The site includes an interactive world map, which gives a geographic lens to the issue of immigration. It also incorporates a crowd sourcing component where users can upload their own content, their own stories of movement and migration.

This short statement at the beginning of San Marinos article Literature is not Data: Against Digital Humanities establishes the argument that BIG DATA IS INDEED COMING FOR OUR BOOKS. Marino believes that all Human endeavors have generated its own Monadic mass of data, and through these vast accumulations of ciphers the robots now endlessly scour for significance. He also believes that a smart book with a stupid title offers a fascinatingly general look at the new algorithmic culture. This culture is generated by a step by a step procedure for calculation and of times displayed through technological advancements. Marino ultimately argument is that literature is currently being took over by this "new" culture.

This short description is an overview of how race can be incorporated into the digital Humanities. This description gives input on the seminar in which our very own professor Amy Earhart is currently partaking in! This seminar will give a brief survey of the emerging field of race and the Digital Humanities, introduce the audience to a variety of digital projects informed by race, and provide links to resources for people interested in working in this field. Topics covered will include: the genealogy of these debates the theortical assumptions that inform them, and issues to consider while constructing a race and digital humanities project.

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.

Beginning in 1971, Project Gutenberg is the first online catalog of electronic books. Claiming to be the largest collection online, Project Gutenberg aims to digitize all books and allow them to be organized and searched through their site. The website can be viewed in multiple languages and allows people to volunteer and donate for the continuation of this project. The site only uses books whose copyright has expired, which makes them free in the United States, and they are allowed to be downloaded and redistributed.

This bibliography of Lynn H. Nelson was written by virtual and close friends who felt the need to write about his life and his contributions to the World Wide Web. In 1998, the web was very young and it was still possible to imagine that a history network could have been monitored by a team of volunteers that coordinated. Lynn had also developed and organized hyperlinks structure of Bernies Lee's World Wide Web virtual library built in 1991. Lynn was a mentor in the field of transitional digital history and humanities computing in 1998 he wrote an essay for a mono graphic issue of the Italian contemporary history journal Memorie De Ricerca. Lynn created one of the first open Access Digital Library worldwide in Kansas and elsewhere.

Alan Lu and William G thomass III are humanities chairs with a long involvement in digital issues who have experienced budget cuts in regards to digital technologies, which are driving changes in higher education. They believe humanities faculty members, chairs, and adminstrators right now have a choice. This choice consist of taking no systematic action on the digital humanites front, and to let the long term digital future build for them. The other option is for humanities faculty, chairs, and adminstrators to plan how to intergrate the digital humanities systematically throughout the different departments.