Hack the Library (ARG)
For my final project, I created an alternate reality game (ARG) using the ARIS game maker. The game is meant to provide an engaging introduction to library rese...
Author: Taylor Orgeron
Louisiana THATcamp 2016
Today I attended the Louisiana THATcamp, and I wanted to write about that experience while the events were still fresh in my mind. Because of the informal struc...
SFMOMA’s Artscope
This is the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s ArtScope, a visual browsing tool containing 3,500 works from the museum’s permanent collection. What I th...
The Community and Culture of THATcamps
With THATcamp Louisiana two weeks away, I thought it might be valuable to explore the community, culture, and debates surrounding the unconference. We’ve previo...
Outlining with Prezi
Since I am steadily making progress on my ARG with 1001 students in mind, I wanted to find other ways to incorporate digital interactive experiences into the co...
ARGs and Library Research
In addition to teaching writing mechanics, analytical writing, and argumentative writing, English GTAs and faculty are tasked with instructing students at LSU b...
Word Trends, Popularity, and the Canon
Starting out, I did not have a clear idea of a set of texts I wanted to use text mining to explore. It was while investigating the Project Gutenberg website tha...
Let’s Play to Learn
Click here to access the archive Overall, I enjoyed the ease of access and overall structure of the Omeka platform. However, given the subject of my archive, it...
The Nicest Kids in Town
The Nicest Kids in Town, also powered by Scalar, traces the realities behind Dick Clark’s claims that American Bandstand was integrated in 1957 through ex...
#MinecraftED Twitter Party
For our post this week, I wanted to participate in the community of educators using Minecraft as a pedagogical tool. Minecraft is, at its core, about placing an...
