Mara Scanlon recently attended a Google Docs workshop with DTLT’s own Martha Burtis and came away with a pretty impressive idea. One of the projects the Digital Whitman students at UMW (and elsewhere in the Looking for Whitman project) is a video about where they found Whitman. They are making these videos themselves, and they [...]
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Whitman Video Locator
Published by November 18th, 2009 in Looking for Whitman, maps, mashup and video. 6 CommentsLooking for Whitman, or “Shut the Front Door!”
Published by October 28th, 2009 in Looking for Whitman. 4 CommentsWell, if I am gonna be honest with myself I have to admit that I have been a total “beauty school dropout” this semester, I have been trying hard to keep up with my various duties, but the tidal wave that is my life right now has washed away all my good intentions. In fact, [...]
Mara Scanlon, who is quickly becoming a blogger extraordinaire, just blogged about a podcast by Nate DiMeo that discusses Guglielmo Marconi vision of sound waves as a crazy idea of eternal recurrence. To quote Mara:
According to Nate DiMeo, late in his life, Marconi came to believe that sound waves never disappeared, but rather went [...]
Ya never know what you’re gonna get when you do an experiment like Looking for Whitman, but as this thing heats up I have to say I a getting more and more excited. Joe D who is either from Camden or CUNY is an absolute nut, and I love it. He immediately introduces the playful [...]
Whitman the Barbarian: Poetry on Steroids
Published by September 10th, 2009 in Looking for Whitman. 2 CommentsSam Kreig, a student from the Digital Whitman course at UMW, took a Flip cam after class Tuesday evening, and what he did with that little camera is as bava-worthy as a video can be. This is my kind of Looking for Whitman project, a mashup of Conan the Barbarian and Walt Whitman. It’s nothing [...]
We played with the Flip video cameras we got at UMW for the Digital Whitman class this past Tuesday, and we all had some fun both reading selections from “Song of Myself” and recording one another from all kinds of angles. What’s more is that the very digital Mara Scanlon got the class three Whitman [...]
Looking for Whitman: A Grand, Aggregated Experiment
Published by September 1st, 2009 in Looking for Whitman. 3 CommentsLast Tuesday marked the kick-off of the Digital Whitman course at UMW. This course is part of a larger NEH grant that is focused on an inter-campus approach to pedagogy that is designed around a rich and distributed infrastructure of social media. The project is titled Looking for Whitman, and it brings together five geographically [...]
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