Student writing is a waste product, a valueless byproduct in the production of literate citizens. It doesn’t have to be. Here I argue we can give it new purpose and dignity by establishing a student-directed, durable commons for student writing.

Application for the Provost’s Digital Innovation Grant: “Digital Alchemy” Applicant Information Mary Catherine Kinniburgh [email protected] Doctoral student in the English Program   Abstract “Digital Alchemy” engages a lab-based model of both critical making and traditional alchemy, based on the provocation that both practices reveal knowledge that is embodied, esoteric, and iterative. Given the interconnectedness of […]

An explanation of social writing tools and practices in the networked era, with sample lesson ideas. For the “Social Writing” workshop, with the Teaching and Learning Center and GC Digital Fellows.

Project 1: Machine Learning for Humanities Students Proposal for a Critical Machine Learning Tutorial One important thing I want to achieve by doing this project is to engage with people in an in-person setting, something I tend not to do very well, both by tutorials and discussions. Also, I want to balance equally the technical training […]

My first ITP project idea — a podcast

Timeline of Project December 2012: Idea first developed in ITP class, inspired by KFitz’s Planned Obsolescence and a less than satisfying class blog experience September 2013: Submitted NEH DH Digital Start-Up Grant application March 2014: Notification of funding – awarded just under 30k (Level 1 tier) July 2014-December 2015: Grant period December 2015: Social Paper (beta) released (https://news.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/12/09/welcome-to-social-paper-beta/) […]

Initial ITP project ideas

This is a first outline for my ITP2 project.

Hello. This is a tiny paper

NOTES: It isn’t quite finished but I wanted to solicit comments about it broadly–are there parts that work, parts that don’t, things that should be expanded or cut? I might have gotten a bit heavy-handed with the father figure stuff… I do know I have a tense problem. I go back and forth between present […]