As indicated by this post’s title – and likely obvious in the lack of content and somewhat slapdash organization – this is a newly-created website. Rapidly prototyped and constructed, it will hereafter serve as my digital workshop and a place to share thoughts and ideas; and will be gradually tightened up and filled out as I find time.
This website/blog will be home to my writings, and hopefully other’s comments, focusing primarily on education (K-12, where my initial training lies; and post-secondary, in which I am currently involved), history (methods, research, and the profession), the digital humanities, and miscellaneous projects and creations. I will be starting graduate school, in history, at the University of Oregon in fall 2010 and intend to use this website as a means to explore ideas, research, teaching, and the graduate school experience. The (mostly empty) topic categories provide a nice framework for what I hope to discuss and share on this website.
Through this website I look forward to exploring questions about the role of digital technologies and tools in research, teaching, and the profession (i.e., academia and public communication), and to sharing my work and projects through my graduate career.
My interest in technology and the digital domain goes back to my undergraduate work at the University of Mary Washington, and has been particularly influenced by my past three years at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. I will go into more detail in the soon-to-be-written about page and my bio. In the mean time, check out my first piece on, “Hacking the Disciplinary Divide,” written for the Hacking the Academy project – a very exciting experiment in digital publishing and community writing: “A Book Crowdsourced in One Week, May 21-28, 2010″ [and the impetus for my finally getting this website up].
