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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... -
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,... -
Using a blog as a means for engagement and education during research
Posted on November 16, 2009 | View CommentsWorking at Campus Archaeology, I began maintaining a blog that was initially intended to update the public about our whereabouts, be it in the field or when we were giving guest lectures. What it has become, however, is a running log about our research findings,... -
on the media
Posted on September 23, 2009 | View CommentsThis past week has been a very busy one for the Campus Archaeology Program. We began the process of putting together a press release about the confirming of the dates of the Sand Dune located behind Munn Ice Arena, and then also discovered the northeast... -
on campus culture part II: being relevant
Posted on September 8, 2009 | View CommentsIt just so happens that my post last week about understanding campus culture actually has some relevance to recent happenings at Michigan State University. As you all should know, our country has hit some troubled times in the past year, and our beloved Michigan…well, we’ve... -
the iPhone camera
Posted on June 1, 2009 | View CommentsI wanted to supplement my post regarding the iphone in field word with two photos I took last week at our excavation. The first is taken with an iphone. The second with a Canon PowerShot A80 (admittedly not a new camera by any means, but...
