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Good morning and welcome to THATCamp SE 2013!

Just removed the Countdown Clock from the sidebar, which means we’re go for flight in 1 hour and 55 minutes!

We’re looking forward to an invigorating 28 hours, so … stay caffeinated. Don’t forget to disconnect your #Twitter account from your #FB account and keep your hands and feet outside the vehicle at all times.

Let’s get started!

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Emory Digital Scholarship Commons presents at GT

On Friday afternoon Stewart Varner and Brian Croxall from Emory University’s digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC) will share their insights into their work at DiSC and details about the digital projects they’re building at Emory Libraries.

When? Friday, March 8 1-2pm

Where? Clough Commons, Room 125

About DiSC:
DiSC offers faculty members and graduate students the space, expertise, and project management assistance they need to develop innovative multidisciplinary projects. DiSC projects involve a range of tools and multidisciplinary methods, from electronic text encoding and geographic information systems to statistical analysis and digitization. Located in the Research Commons of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, DiSC is supported by funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
DiSC website

Stewart Varner is DiSC’s Digital Scholarship Coordinator. He has a Ph.D. in American Studies from Emory and a M.L.I.S. from the University of North Texas. He co-authored the grant that made DiSC possible. Before coming to DiSC, Stewart served as a Beck Foundation Fellow and a Woodruff Fellow at Emory Libraries.

Brian Croxall is DiSC’s Digital Humanities Strategist. He has a Ph.D. in English literature from Emory. Before coming to DiSC, Brian served as a Council on Library and Information Resources Fellow at Emory Libraries and taught literature and media studies courses at Emory and Clemson.

More Information: DiSCEvent_Mar8

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Stephen C. Hall building, Georgia Tech

With under two weeks to go, there’s still time to submit a session proposal for this year’s THATCamp Southeast. Please join us!

We welcome session proposals, especially those relating to modes and approaches to teaching with technology.

All THATCamp SE activities will be held at the Stephen C. Hall Building, the new home of the Writing & Communication program. The Hall Building is located at 215 Bobby Dodd Way, right across from the football stadium.

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Georgia Tech skyview

Once you’ve registered for TCSE and written your proposal, you’ll probably start thinking along more practical lines: Where on Georgia Tech’s campus will TCSE be held? Where should I stay? What will I eat? For answers to these and other important questions, look at the “Directions and Settling In” page on this site.

If you need help, please complete this form … or you can always tweet us at @THATCamp_SE.

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Once you register for your THATCamp and are approved, you will receive a user account on the THATCamp website. You should receive your login information by email. Before the THATCamp, you should log in to the THATCamp site, click on Posts –> Add New, then write and publish your session proposal.

Your session proposal will appear on the front page of this site, and we’ll all be able to read and comment on it beforehand. (If you haven’t worked with WordPress before, see codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Posts for help.) The morning of the event, all THATCamp participants will vote on those proposals (and probably come up with several new ones), and then all together will work out how best to put those sessions into a schedule.

Remember that you will be expected to facilitate the sessions you propose, so that if you propose a hacking session, you should have the germ of a project to work on; if you propose a workshop, you should be prepared to teach it or find a teacher; if you propose a discussion of the Digital Public Library of America, you should be prepared to summarize what that is, begin the discussion, keep the discussion going, and end the discussion.

When do I propose a session?

You can propose a session as early as you like, but most people publish their session proposals to the THATCamp site during the week before the THATCamp begins. It’s a good idea to check the THATCamp site frequently in the week beforehand (perhaps by subscribing to its RSS feed with an RSS reader such as Google Reader) to see and comment on everyone’s session proposals. You can also come up with a last-minute idea and propose it to the THATCamp participants during the scheduling session, which is the first session of the THATCamp.

Why are sessions proposed this way?

Proposing sessions just before a THATCamp and building a schedule during the first session of a THATCamp ensures that sessions are honest and informal, that session topics are current, and that unconference participants will collaborate on a shared task. An unconference, in Tom Scheinfeldt’s words, is fun, productive, and collegial, and at THATCamp, therefore, “[W]e’re not here to listen and be listened to. We’re here to work, to participate actively.[…] We’re here to get stuff done.” Listen further:

Everyone should feel equally free to participate and everyone should let everyone else feel equally free to participate. You are not students and professors, management and staff here at THATCamp. At most conferences, the game we play is one in which I, the speaker, try desperately to prove to you how smart I am, and you, the audience member, tries desperately in the question and answer period to show how stupid I am by comparison. Not here. At THATCamp we’re here to be supportive of one another as we all struggle with the challenges and opportunities of incorporating technology in our work, departments, disciplines, and humanist missions.

See the About page for more information on the philosophy of unconferences.

What do I propose?

There are roughly four things people do in THATCamp sessions: Talk, Make,Teach, and Play. Sometimes one session contains elements of all these, but it’s also a fair taxonomy for THATCamp sessions. In a Talk session proposal, you offer to lead a group discussion on a topic or question of interest to you. In aMake session proposal, you offer to lead a small group in a hands-on collaborative working session with the aim of producing a draft document or piece of software. In a Teach session, you offer to teach a skill, either a “hard” skill or a “soft” skill. In a Play session, anything goes — you suggest literally playing a game, or you suggest some quality group playtime with one or more technologies, or what you will.