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I’m really pleased to be one of this year’s HASTAC (Humanities, Art, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) Scholars<\/a> at the University of Iowa, working in conjunction with UI’s Digital Studio for Public Humanities<\/a> and the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies<\/a>. HASTAC is a digital initiative, an online community of scholars working together at “the intersection of technology and the arts, humanities and sciences.”<\/p>\n

I’ll be the first to admit that most of what I know about computers and technology has been picked up by osmosis\u2014things I’ve read online or that I’ve heard from friends who studied the sciences at university\u2014and so I’m not a proficient coder or deeply knowledgeable in the ways of Linux. What I am, however, is really interested in how people\u2014scholars, students, the general public\u2014can use technology to improve and share their understandings of history (while still sometimes being a devil’s advocate for plain old pencil and paper!). I’m really intrigued, for example, by the possibilities of digital modelling\u2014the Premonstratensian sisters whom I study may not have left any documentation behind them, but we have the chance to get some sense of what the world that they saw looked like through, say, a combination of a careful reading of charters and a program like Google Sketchup<\/a><\/p>\n

You can check out the bios of the other University of Iowa HASTAC scholars<\/a> at the Obermann Center website, and see my profile page on the HASTAC site.<\/a> I will be blogging there throughout the year about my experiences working with the DSPH and learning my way around the field of digital humanities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m really pleased to be one of this year’s HASTAC (Humanities, Art, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) Scholars at the University of Iowa, working in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-humanities","category-hastac"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":65,"url":"https:\/\/yvonneseale.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/24\/rewiring-the-classroom\/","url_meta":{"origin":74,"position":0},"title":"Rewiring the Classroom","author":"Yvonne Seale","date":"January 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Next month, the University of Iowa will host \"Rewiring the Classroom\", a forum on digital pedagogy for the college classroom. 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