Archive for the 'Software' Category
Widget-Based Education
4 Comments Published by Mark Marino August 23rd, 2008 in HCTI, Features, News, Software, Education.
Recently I’ve caught a bit of widget fever. Widgets are modules of web content usually wrapped in an iframe that can be added to any web page and are often enabled for use on popular content management systems and social networking sites, such as Blogger and Facebook.
Widgets are to multimedia content what RSS […]
Elit 2.0 (a guide to literary works on social software)
6 Comments Published by Mark Marino July 1st, 2008 in HCTI, Poetics, Features, Text Art, Software.(8/17/08 Update: I’ve updated the list with some of the works from the notes and others people have emailed to me separately).
How do you teach Web 2.0? With elit, of course. This post offers an elit work for each tool.
A number of my colleagues (myself included) attempt to teach courses around Web 2.0 technologies. […]
new hypertext: a little show of hands
0 Comments Published by Mark Marino January 10th, 2008 in HCTI, poetry, hyperfic, Poetics, Features, Text Art, Criticism, Publications, Software.The latest version of Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures (Winter ‘07, 04) hit the webstands recently, and in it you’ll find “a little show of hands,” a short story adaptation excerpted from my adaptive hypertext novella “a show of hands.” The story continues focuses on a Mexican-American family in Los Angeles and the forces that […]
Joining the Software Studies Initiative at UCSD
7 Comments Published by Jeremy Douglass December 4th, 2007 in HCTI, Researchers, Features, CCS, News, Text Art, Criticism, Software, Education.I’ve recently joined the Software Studies Initiative at U. California San Diego, where I’ll be working full-time doing software and code research from humanities and social sciences perspectives. Here’s the hiring announcement from Softwaretheory.net:
Jeremy is appointed to Software Studies with support from the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and the Center […]
Teaching Web 2.0
6 Comments Published by Mark Marino November 29th, 2007 in Researchers, Features, Software, Social.Over the past months we have posted various tools for teachers who are bringing electronic writing technologies into their classroom, including links for Pedagogy and Games and Computers and Composition. The question remains how to present these effectively without overwhelming the audience that might not already be immersed in emergent technologies? The context […]