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Caitlin Duffy started the topic Mini Challenge #6: Survey in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoHello, everyone!
The HC team and I would love some feedback from you regarding the HC Summer Camp. In fact, we’re raffling off two HC platypuses. To enter to win this coveted prize, you simply need to respond to the “Reflect and Plan” questions in our previous discussion thread and/or complete the (5-10 min) survey. Participating in both will…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy deposited Cartography of the Imperial Mind: The Dangerous Forms and Reforms of Dracula in the group
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThe late Victorian era was imbued with progressive scientific reform and palpable anxiety regarding the future of the British empire. These two topics may seem distinct, but they find mutual expression in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, in which the soulless Count travels from Transylvania (literally, “beyond the forest”) and invades Engla…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy deposited Cartography of the Imperial Mind: The Dangerous Forms and Reforms of Dracula in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThe late Victorian era was imbued with progressive scientific reform and palpable anxiety regarding the future of the British empire. These two topics may seem distinct, but they find mutual expression in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, in which the soulless Count travels from Transylvania (literally, “beyond the forest”) and invades Engla…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy deposited Cartography of the Imperial Mind: The Dangerous Forms and Reforms of Dracula in the group
Horror on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThe late Victorian era was imbued with progressive scientific reform and palpable anxiety regarding the future of the British empire. These two topics may seem distinct, but they find mutual expression in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, in which the soulless Count travels from Transylvania (literally, “beyond the forest”) and invades Engla…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy deposited Cartography of the Imperial Mind: The Dangerous Forms and Reforms of Dracula in the group
Gothicists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThe late Victorian era was imbued with progressive scientific reform and palpable anxiety regarding the future of the British empire. These two topics may seem distinct, but they find mutual expression in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, in which the soulless Count travels from Transylvania (literally, “beyond the forest”) and invades Engla…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic Challenge #6: Reflect and Plan (8/6-8/19) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoHello, campers!
It’s the time we all knew would come eventually: the end of summer camp. I can’t believe it myself, but we’ve arrived at the final challenge, which is centered around reflecting and planning. I hope that you use this time to make sure that you don’t loose track of all of the wonderful work you’ve done over the summer.
To complete…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic Challenge #4: Sites (7/9-22) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoHi, @ninalager.
To get a picture to go across your screen on the Radcliffe theme, you can choose to set a “featured image” for that post. The space to upload that image is on the bottom right of your post’s editing page. I think I’m thinking about the same image space as you are, but if I’m talking about something else, please let me know! Hope…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic Advanced Mini Challenge #5: Widgets in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoHello, campers!
I’ve just posted about our fifth mini-challenge on our blog. You can find the post here.
For this mini-challenge, you will learn about the WordPress widgets that are available to use with HC sites. This challenge highlights just a few widgets that I thought might be helpful, but feel free to explore other options.
As always, le…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic Challenge #5: Sites 2.0 (7/23-8/5) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoWelcome to our fifth challenge!
Challenge #5 is shorter than previous challenges simply because I wanted to give you all the time and freedom to add content to your site. This challenge guides you through the process of adding content to your site as well as creating a plan to maintain your site into the future.
The full details and instructions…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic Advanced Mini Challenge #4: WordPress Plug-Ins for HC Sites in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoHello, campers!
I’ve just posted about our fourth mini-challenge on our blog. You can find the post here.
For this mini-challenge, you will learn about the WordPress plug-ins that are available to use with HC sites. This challenge highlights four of my favorite plug-ins, but feel free to explore other options (there are 26 plug-ins to choose fr…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic Advanced Mini Challenge #3: Altmetric in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago@mollief Thanks for sharing! I appreciate Altmetric’s ability to alert you to locations where your work is cited that you otherwise might not have been aware of, like Wikipedia (so cool that you’re cited on Wikipedia!).
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic Challenge #4: Sites (7/9-22) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago@ninalager Yes! Humanities Commons sites have a number of WordPress plug-ins that you can activate for your site (our upcoming mini-challenge will focus on plug-ins you can use on HC sites, so we’ll cover this topic a bit more very soon). One of these plug-ins is the WordPress Importer which lets you export a WordPress site from elsewhere and…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic Advanced Mini Challenge #3: Altmetric in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago@SaraStarbuckSantos: Thanks for sharing how you’re using Altmetric to research the current work in your field! I think that’s a great idea (and one that I plan to use myself).
@mklopez : Altmetric is not a perfect tool, so it is bound to come up short in some areas. For example, the fact that articles need a DOI in order for Altmetric to track it…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic Challenge #4: Sites (7/9-22) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoWelcome to our fourth challenge!
Challenge #4 guides you through the process of creating your own site through Humanities Commons. Right now, we’re just focusing on building the site’s structure and look. We will add content in Challenge #5: Sites 2.0.
The full details and instructions for our fourth challenge can be f…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic Advanced Mini Challenge #3: Altmetric in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoHello, campers!
I’ve just posted about our third mini-challenge on our blog. You can find the post here.
For this mini-challenge, you don’t need to create anything new. Instead, it asks you to explore two super helpful (free) tools created by Altmetric. One tool helps you to have greater awareness and control of the digital conversations…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: American Ecogothic at NeMLA in the discussion
Horror on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoLeslie Fiedler describes American fiction as “bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction… a literature of darkness and the grotesque in a land of light and affirmation” (Love and Death in the American Novel, 29). However, for settlers within the early colonies and citizens of the young republic, the wilderness of the supposed New World…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: American Ecogothic, NeMLA 2019 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis panel on the American ecogothic will take place at the 50th annual NeMLA conference (March 21-24, 2019 in Washington, DC).
Leslie Fiedler describes American fiction as “bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction… a literature of darkness and the grotesque in a land of light and affirmation” (Love and Death in the American Novel…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic Challenge #3: CORE (6/25-7/8) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoLike the others who commented above me, I was really looking forward to this challenge. While I already have taken advantage of the ability to download content from the CORE Repository (@sarastarbucksantos Yes!- the syllabi available on CORE rock!), I never had the guts to actually upload something myself. I’m not quite sure why that is, but I’m…[Read more]
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