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Research Trip: St. Mary’s City Bound
Posted on September 9, 2010 | View CommentsBetween a vacation and moving, the past couple of months have had me living out of a suitcase pretty regularly; the coming few months are no different. While my home base of operations for writing the dissertation has me in Williamsburg, the location of my... -
The iPod Touch: Part of the 21st Century Archaeology Toolkit
Posted on September 1, 2010 | View CommentsYesterday, I was very excited to tune into the livestream of Steve Jobs and Apple’s Music Day. Not because I’m a huge music fan (which I am), or because I really wanted to know who the musical guest was going to be (Coldplay. Nice.), but... -
Big Changes…
Posted on July 9, 2010 | View CommentsI have spent most of my life in East Lansing, Michigan. I grew up here, I attend elementary, middle, high and graduate school here, my family lives here. The time I didn’t spend here was down the street, attending Kalamazoo College. I have made what... -
Proposal: Done. Field School: Begin.
Posted on May 27, 2010 | View CommentsAlthough it happened a couple of weeks ago, I successfully defended my dissertation proposal, and have been granted with that somewhat sarcastic (and totally unofficial) title of “ABD”, or “All But Dissertation”. The defense went well: my committee nailed me on what I expected to... -
Archaeology, Social Media, and the in-the-field workflow
Posted on April 25, 2010 | View CommentsI have been using Digital Social Media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr to show real-time posts to the fans of Campus Archaeology while we are excavating in the field. These messages are all attached to an image, so making sure the image is... -
ReThinking Digital Social Media for Digital Humanities and Community Engagement
Posted on April 8, 2010 | View CommentsI went to the Great Lakes #ThatCamp with the intention of talking about using digital social media as a means of real-time community engagement, and hoping that I would get ideas from others about how they were using sites like Twitter or Facebook to engage... -
Digging Differently: collecting field data for public archaeology
Posted on March 25, 2010 | View CommentsOne of the sessions at Great Lakes ThatCamp was on Digital Archaeology. What was great about this session was the mix of archaeologists and people from other disciplines, particularly those who work in museums, who often have to take what we find and figure out... -
Great Lakes THATCamp Overview
Posted on March 21, 2010 | View CommentsThis weekend, Michigan State played host to the Great Lakes THATCamp (@GLTHATCamp), an “un-conference” in humanities and technology. This was my first experience at a THATCamp or un-conference, and it was definitely a successful format that took some getting used to. Once I did, however,... -
The Class I want to Teach
Posted on March 1, 2010 | View CommentsThis semester, I’ve been enrolled in a course on college teaching, as well as doing the Graduate Engagement Certificate out of the Office of Engagement. Both experiences have me thinking hard about what type of teacher I hope to be, and also what kinds of... -
Process or Methodology?
Posted on February 22, 2010 | View CommentsThe role of the advisor is just that, to give advice. My advisor, Kenneth Lewis, came through big time last week during an impromptu meeting we had last week about my dissertation research questions (still being worked on, but I’ll post them once they’re completed)....
