Author Archives: Hope Greenberg

iPad App: inkling

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Hope Greenberg

Inkling, a new app and textbook producer, was mentioned recently in the Wired Campus blog from The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Kaya, Travis. “Classroom iPad Programs Get Mixed Response” Sept. 20, 1010) What is it? An app for buying, reading, … Continue reading →

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iPads for Scholars, Pt. 2

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Hope Greenberg

Thanks to all who attended and contributed. Inés kindly noted the apps that were discussed. Here they are, with links to the web sites for more information. All apps are available through the App Store on your iPad. Evernote – … Continue reading →

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iPads for Scholars, Pt. 1

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Hope Greenberg

Our first roundtable on the iPad, “iPads for Scholars,” held at the Center for Teaching and Learning, Wednesday, 9/8/2010. As one might expect, the web has been awash with articles, opinions, and comments about the Ipad. Here are a few, … Continue reading →

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eBooks and eReaders Talk for UVM Library

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Hope Greenberg

Wichada Sukantarat of the UVM Library asked Alison Armstrong, Scott Scaheffer and me to put together a panel discussion for the library staff on eBook and eReaders. I was asked to talk about the technical issues, Alison about library service … Continue reading →

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Anthologize sets DH world abuzz

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Hope Greenberg

We’ve come to expect innovative ideas from CHNM and this week has been no exception. Funded by a grant from the NEH, the One Week/One Tool project’s intent was to bring together twelve practitioners in the digital humanities to decide … Continue reading →

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iPad apps for scholars. Pt. 1.

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Hope Greenberg

Will the iPad save or destroy education? Is it the device that will revolutionize scholarship or is it merely a gadget that differs from many others not by its potential but simply by its marketing? The cloud is already abuzz … Continue reading →

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Humanities and the Digital

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Hope Greenberg

According to Daniel Paul O’Donnell, “Humanities, Not Science, Key to New Web Frontier.” Citing the humanities background of several familiar web creators (Larry Sanger/Wikipedia, Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook, Michael Everson/Unicode), O’Donnell asserts that: “The Internet is no longer primarily an engineering problem. … Continue reading →

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Trip report: NERCOMP Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Hope Greenberg

Held Monday, February 01, 2010http://www.nercomp.org/events/event_single.aspx?id=5932 This was, far and away, the best NERCOMP event I have attended. The notes are both extensive and cryptic but I wanted to keep it all. 1) Digital Scholarship in the Humanities: Challenges and Opportunities … Continue reading →

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Get your newspapers (or textbooks) here

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Hope Greenberg

The publishing world continues to buzz about upcoming reading devices and the business models that will best exploit them. E Ink, the company that makes the electronic “paper” used in devices like the Kindle, is still a black-and-white-only technology. However, … Continue reading →

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Twitter and Scholarship: Not just a toy

Posted on May 2, 2009 by Hope Greenberg

A couple weeks ago Dan Cohen decided to try a live Twitter experiment in crowdsourcing during his live presentation at a conference. The experiment is described in his blog post summary. was to use Twitter to “replicate digitally the traditional … Continue reading →

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