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The September 11 Digital Archive, Stephen Brier, Joshua Brown
The September 11 Digital Archive, Stephen Brier, Joshua Brown
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This article focuses on the creation and subsequent development of the September 11 Digital Archive (www.911digitalarchive.org), currently one of the largest digital repositories of historical materials on the September 11 attacks. The article reflects on archival and methodological questions and on issues raised by the efforts of staff members at the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and at the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning (ASHP) at the City University of New York Graduate Center to preserve and present via the Internet digital resources related to the epochal events of …
Beyond Friending: Buddypress And The Social, Networked, Open-Source Classroom, Matthew K. Gold
Beyond Friending: Buddypress And The Social, Networked, Open-Source Classroom, Matthew K. Gold
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Classrooms have always been networks, of a sort, with professors and students forming an interlaced series of nodes that take shape over the course of a semester, but tools like BuddyPress and WordPress can make those networks more open, more porous, and more varied. In very useful ways, the classroom-as-social-network can help create engaging spaces for learning in which students are more connected to one another, to their professors, and to the wider world.