Peer review is notoriously challenging to facilitate, especially if some or all of your students attend virtually. While it would be nice to simply have students trade physical copies of their papers, it’s not always possible! For two semesters, I…
How (and why) to be on Academic Twitter
Many other people have written about how to be on Academic Twitter, but imo they make it sound way more serious and scary than it actually is. Using Twitter as part of your academic work doesn’t have to be high-pressure…
7 Great No-Code Digital Humanities Tools
I talked the other week about the things that learn-to-code resources don’t teach you. But spoilers, you don’t have to learn to code at all! You don’t need to know Python or R to do digital humanities work. There are…
Do I have to learn to code to do digital humanities? | The parts “teach yourself” resources skip
Trained coders like me are (accidentally?) keeping secrets about how we learned. Here’s what the “coding for digital humanities” resources skip.
5 Zoom Features You Might Have Missed
In the last two years, many of us have become more familiar than we’d like with the video conferencing software Zoom. If you, like me, have been using Zoom to teach in the last several years, you probably learned how…
What is XML, and should I learn it?
This post covers XML 101 and some of the most important standards to know (about) as a digital humanist.