Mark Corbett Wilson

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Hollywood Well, I just got into town about an hour ago Took a look around, see which way the wind blow…

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Digital Pedagogy redux

After hundreds of hours of research (online and otherwise), travelling to the University of Victoria, British Columbia, for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (twice!), taking the “Digital Pedagogy and Praxis” class, and talking with several of the presenters mentioned in this story at #DHSI last month: today I discovered the Digital Pedagogy Network. I must not be asking the right questions!

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What is Digital Humanities?

What is Digital Humanities?

Storify says it allows 1000 ‘elements’ but my top 3 aren’t included and I can’t find a way to edit them in.

Without them the ‘story’ has no context. This is Digital Humanities!

This!

https://storify.com/faberglas/digital-humanities

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On M. Macron video

On M. Macron video

http://markcorbettwilson.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/On_M_Macron.mp4

Digital Story made from blog post “On M. Macron, Macarons, Macaroons, Macaroni, Maccaroni, the Macaronies, and Drumpf” using Lumen5.

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President Trump on Iran

President Trump on Iran

Beware of weps.

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Around the World 2017: Digital Media in a Post-Truth Era

Around the World 2017: Digital Media in a Post-Truth Era

I recently spent an entire day at this wonderfully international digital conference. I can highly recommend the Kule Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Alberta, Canada, annual Around the World conference. I found this years’ theme irresistible: Digital Media in a Post-Truth Era.

“The unfolding of recent political events in the US has sparked much debate around ‘fake news,’…

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On Macron, Macarons, Macaroons, Macaroni, Maccaroni, the Macaronis, and Drumpf

On Macron, Macarons, Macaroons, Macaroni, Maccaroni, the Macaronis, and Drumpf

French Economy minister Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Trogneux arrive at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, to attend a dinner in honour of Spain’s King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia 2 June 2016 (Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)

After Emmanuel Macron won the French election by a margin of two to one over Marine Le Pen, I wondered what the French word macron could mean. A macron is the diacritical…

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The House of Representatives passed a bill! The US House of Representatives finally passed AHCA 2017. Now it has to be scored by the Congressional Budget Office (usually done before the vote), be passed by the US Senate, go through a Reconciliation Committee, return to the House to be passed again and then returned to the Senate for final passage. Then the Republicans can honestly celebrate.

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Feeling the Bern. #birdiesanders #bernie2016

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Devitrification turned 3 today!

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Victorian-era portraits of African-Americans, 1899 or 1900; from a collection assembled by W.E.B. Du Bois for the Exposition Nègres d’Amerique of the1900 Exposition Universelle. 

Library of Congress

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Lino Tagliapietra. Fenice, 2012. Glass, 44 1/2 X 14 3/4 X 5 1/4 in. (113.03 X 37.47 X 13.34 cm).

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Inconsistency in student leadership in the California Community College system is not a new conundrum; it is an age-old problem which has not been solved since the system’s inception. Pockets of quality leadership have sprung up, but inevitably both local and statewide student organizations rise...

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for Destiny

Judy Garland sings the ironic “Happy New Year” from her 1957 album Alone