Author Archives: Ben Johnston

Locat­ing London’s Past com­bines his­tor­i­cal maps of sev­en­teenth and eigh­teenth cen­tury Lon­don with mod­ern imagery and geo-referenced infor­ma­tion about places in the city http://www.locatinglondon.org/

@DHAnswers is a col­lab­o­ra­tive project of the Asso­ci­a­tion for Com­put­ers and the Human­i­ties (ACH) and the Chron­i­cle of Higher Education’s ProfHacker build­ing a community-based Q&A board for dig­i­tal human­i­ties ques­tions.  This is really a ter­rific resource. http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/

Prezi is great for adding a lit­tle pizazz to your pre­sen­ta­tions, but can def­i­nitely be over-done. The fol­low­ing pro­vides some use­ful guide­lines for using Prezi in the class­room: https://ltlatnd.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/nine-strategies-for-teaching-with-prezi/

A vari­ety of new soft­ware has recently been installed in the HRC. Abbyy FineReader – OCR soft­ware that allows scans, PDFs and dig­i­tal pho­tographs into search­able and editable doc­u­ments. AntConc – A con­cor­dance pro­gram that lets you cre­ate word lists and … Con­tinue read­ing →

The web­site GoogleLit­Trips archives student-generated maps of lit­er­ary voy­ages: http://www.googlelittrips.com/GoogleLit/Hi_Ed/Hi_Ed.html