Category Archives: General

For the Domain of One’s Own program at Emory University, we are planning to launch some faculty development workshops to run starting at the end of the semester and running through the first part of the summer. We’ll have one … Continue reading →

We’ve got the following rooms available in the GSU Student Center at 44 Courtland Street: Room 262, the Dorchester Suite; Room 270, the Lanier; room 274, the Sinclair; and room 278, the Lucerne. Here’s a floor plan of the second … Continue reading →

Teachers often complain that it is difficult to motivate students to learn. Lee Sheldon proposed a novel solution to this problem: run the classroom as if it were a multiplayer video game. In Sheldon’s classroom, students are assigned different “quests” … Continue reading →

Maps, while always an abstraction of reality, have a way of making the real more concrete.  As tools, maps are used to understand, reshape, and control the world. Until recently, the development of complex maps was, for the most part, … Continue reading →

If “connectivism” as a learning theory is new to your eyes, MOOCs are probably not. Though most of the attention trained on MOOCs in the last two years have been focused on the x-brand (Coursera, Udacity, edX), cMOOCs, or connectivist … Continue reading →

As a scholar of early modern literature, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the way that digital tools can help us to understand historical topographies – places that no longer exist, voyages long since completed, or cities that … Continue reading →

I’ve prevailed on GSU Library’s Associate Dean for Public Services, Bryan Sinclair, to come by our THATCamp on Sunday afternoon to talk with us about CURVE, the research technology center opening in the Library later this year. He’s calling the … Continue reading →

Hello! And welcome to THATCamp South East 2014! We are excited to be hosting at Georgia State University in the heart of Downtown Atlanta. We hope you can join us. If you love THATCamp as much as we do, now is … Continue reading →