By Matthew Gold. The Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) of the Graduate Center, City University of New York, invites applicants for Distinguished Fellowships in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theoretical Sciences for the 2014 – 2015 academic year. Applicants should have outstanding records of published research and scholarship. For the academic year 2014-2015, preference will be given to scholars working in the areas of Immigration, Inequality and the Digital Humanities but applicants working in the areas listed on our website are also welcome to apply. More...

By Ashleigh Faith. It seems like everyone is trying to come up with a witty introduction to their HASTAC Scholar's 2014 class post, and I admit I thought of doing that too, but I am a realist at heart so here goes.
My main research is: Ontology Visualization: Term search from indexing to retrieval. This encompasses a few themes: ontology is indexing, metadata, search, and content management as well as language, machine learning, and multilingual cognizance and psychology. What a mouthful! Visualization on the surface seems more simplistic –it’s a visual- but that also includes psychology, and a lot of the topics covered in ontology but with the scope of it being produced in a visual form. That in a nutshell, albeit a very large one, is what I am interested in. More...

By Michael Widdersheim. So far, I’ve picked up on the notion of badges.  Digital badge systems assess and reward digital learning.  This is a new concept for me (though they are used in online gaming and online communities), but it has amazing potential in schools and libraries.  What if libraries had badge-earning workshops, or school library media specialists linked curricula to potential badges? The badge idea also seems to synch with the idea of an ePortfolio which is gaining ground.  Digital badges inform others how to attain skills--the badges provide a pathway.  I like this idea because I often wonder how people acquire certain skills, or how people were able to create certain artifacts.  Learners’ badges are viewable online and are attached to individuals’ online profiles.  New badges can be created as new technologies or skills emerge. More...

By Cathy Davidson. I just spent a delightful half hour lost in the FemTechNet site---and hope you will too!    Built on a Commons in a Box site, the website is filled with great information, resources, and ideas for you to try in your own courses: femtechnet.newschool.edu.
If you haven't been following this exciting project, many feminists in technology studies, gender studies, and media studies are teaching courses and offering webinars this year, with a public interface as well as with an ability to communicate across the institutions so students in one class can talk to those in others.  It's inspiring as a model for how to connect students to the issues that most shape their future. More...