Author Archives: Ben Johnston

A (not so) recent arti­cle in the New York Times enti­tled ‘The Trou­ble With Home­work‘ describes sev­eral study tech­niques that have been shown to enhance reten­tion and aid mem­ory. Spaced Rep­e­ti­tion, which should be famil­iar to any­one who has stud­ied … Con­tinue read­ing →

Sim­pleTCT is a tex­tual analy­sis tool for mak­ing the­matic anno­ta­tions devel­oped by Open­DAHT, Open Dig­i­tal Arts & Human­i­ties Tools. Col­lec­tions of text files can be opened and viewed within the appli­ca­tion, themes can be defined and given unique color cod­ing. … Con­tinue read­ing →

WPGeo is one of the most pow­er­ful plu­g­ins installed in the word­press blog­ging sys­tem at blogs.princeton.edu and one with great poten­tial for teach­ing. In its sim­plest form, the plu­gin allows one to asso­ciate loca­tion infor­ma­tion with blog posts by drag­ging … Con­tinue read­ing →

This pod­cast is quite old but well worth lis­ten­ing to if you are inter­ested in get­ting started in the dig­i­tal human­i­ties. Jeremy Boggs is the Human­i­ties Design Archi­tect at UVa’s Schao­larsLab.  In the record­ing of the pre­sen­ta­tion linked to in … Con­tinue read­ing →