TheLen

This blog started as a requirement for a requirement for my digital history tool of research (TOR).  Using it to post responses to the weekly reading assignments and comment on other students’ posts, I started to appreciate the role of an academic blog as a sort of middle ground between researching/thinking and a final, written product.  Mark Grimsley’s “Custer and the Art of the Blog” series of posts at his blog, Blog Them Out of the Stone Age, really helped change my mind about blogging and academia.

After the class ended, I found myself thinking of new blog posts — most for myself than for an audience — and decided to continue using this blog to explore some of the ideas and issues tied to my TOR.  So, the tags to the right of the screen link to different aspects of either the digital history class (weekly writing, web review, final project), as well as other parts of the TOR including wikis, blogs, teaching, Scribe, research, and how I see the internet and digital technology changing academia.

The odds and ends category covers things that I found interesting and tangentially relevant, but that didn’t fit into any of the other categories — from a picture of my car accident to a Washington Post article about Wikipedia.