Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Issue 27 This article focuses on ecosystem of digital humanities labs at the University of Maryland, College Park, the African American Digital and Experimental Humanities (AADHum) research and design lab and the NarraSpaceXR immersive storytelling lab which have creative computing workshops that adhere to the fundamental tenets of minimal computing to help students understand, build, and critique the computing systems we engage daily. Keywords: minimal computing, physical computing, libraries, public schools, digital humanities, workshops, technical literacy

Did you hear? Issue 27 is hot off the presses with an amazing set of new articles. In the first, Cassandra Hradil and Christin Washington share how the digital humanities labs at the University of Maryland, College Park, use minimal computing to help students understand and build computing systems.

Those are some exciting features! What's the target launch date for v9?

*TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments* 2025 is out now! 23 innovative and thoughtful assignments including AI, tested by teachers in higher ed, and adaptable to your classes! wac.colostate.edu/repository/c...
#oer #creativecommons #AIeducation

No major insight, but following for the replies so I can make good recommendations

Ok, I know I've been a bit absent on socials, but allow me to reemerge to beg you to circulate this excellent job on a wonderful team. Please apply!
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Amazing and inspiring, @the-alex-hidalgo.bsky.social !

Thanks, Scott! I appreciate and admire your transparency. : )

Given how para 1 ends, para 2 seems even more salient. When you say you spoke to someone: was that via informational interview?

A statement by 40 Jewish faculty and staff on antisemitism and DEI at U.Va. As scholars and teachers, we know that dissent and debate strengthen our intellectual commitments and moral judgments rather than threaten them. We reject any attempt to deny these basic truths.

www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/07/a-statem... #UVa #HigherEd #academia #antisemitism #DEI #USPolitics #Virginia

Very proud of my wife (@morrisonlab.bsky.social) and her lab for advancing our knowledge of how dopamine works in different kinds of learning/learners! Even cooler when you know this is achieved with a mostly undergrad crew. Another reason to restore #NIHfunding

Preview of hyperlinked table of contents for JITP issue 26: six items. 1. Editors' introduction: Local Networks. 2. Let My People Know: Place-based and Digital Humanities Pedagogy in Action. 3. Fostering Quantitative Reasoning in Introductory Psychology through Asynchronous Assignments Featuring Low-Stakes Quizzes, Data Analysis, and Visualization Activities. 4. Feeling the Reading: Affective Landmarking and Literary Studies in India. 5. Advancing Equity in the K-5 Classroom. 6. Combining Design Thinking and Generative AI Technologies in the Classroom: a Project-Based Learning Approach.

Now with new and improved link: cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jit...

Cover of Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, Issue 26, a general issue edited by Asma Neblett, Zach Muhlbauer, and Kyla Yein, with a summary highlighting community-based educational practices and a logo showing "JITP 26."

Issue 26 of JITP is out now! Edited by Asma Neblett,
@zmuhl.bsky.social, and Kyla Yein

Issue Twenty Six: Local Networks

Find the full issue here and stay tuned for individual pieces this week: cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jit...

🧵 for NEA grantees

I lament that the Court appears to have embarked on a new era of procedural variability, and that it has done so in such a casual, inequitable, and, in my view, inappropriate manner. See Department of Education v. California, 604 U. S. ___ , ___ (2025) (JACKSON, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 1–2). At least when the Court went off base in the past, it left a record so posterity could see how it went wrong. See, e.g., Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944). With more and more of our most significant rulings taking place in the shadows of our emergency docket, today’s Court leaves less and less of a trace. But make no mistake: We are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are now less willing to face it.

An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Supreme Court Overturns Block on Trump Administration’s Venezuela Deportations The Trump administration asked the justices to weigh in after a federal judge paused the president’s use of a wartime powers law to deport Venezuelans it accused of being gang members.

Breaking News: The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could continue to deport Venezuelan migrants based on a wartime powers act for now, overturning a lower court that had put a temporary stop to the deportations.

The Holocaust Story I Said I Wouldn’t Write For years, my friend’s father asked me to recount his childhood escape from the Nazis. Why did it take me this long?

I just finished "The Last Survivors" in the @nytimes.com magazine. A hard read. I couldn't put it down. Well worth 20 minutes of your time to get to the end. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/m...

Same. There will undoubtedly be (have likely already been) more Jews harmed by the sudden revocation of promised funding than by pro-Palestinian protests.

🚨🚨CFP alert!🚨🚨

So excited to be co-editing this special issue of JITP on minimalist pedagogy broadly construed w/ Patricia Belen, @veritas44.bsky.social, @palermog.bsky.social, @danicasavonick.bsky.social . Lots more information in the CFP. Happy to chat further if anyone has interest.

Health researchers alarmed as Trump administration pauses travel, communications The halt has frozen research grants, meetings and key health updates. “Everything is basically in chaos,” said one cancer researcher.

@nytimes.com , where is your coverage of the NIH freeze-out? No study sessions, no communication... and no comment from the paper of record? Really? @washingtonpost.com had it three days ago: wapo.st/3EeF3hF

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Wishing a freiliche chanukah and heri za Kwanzaa to all who are celebrating! And if you're counting days of Christmas, there are just 10 left until applications are due for this UX/UI position at Pitt! If you like computers and writing, you'll likely find us good company. : )

Anyone have a substitute / update for Madeleine Sorapure's ["Playing Lev Manovich"](kairos.technorhetoric.net/8.2/coverweb...) in @kairosrtp.bsky.social? I'm looking for interactive, undergrad-friendly explanations of modularity, automation, variability, etc that don't rely on Flash. #comprhet #dh

Hey, #teamrhetoric, #candwcon, #techcomm, #attw, Pitt is hiring! Renewable, promotable, full-time teaching track in Composition / Digital Narrative and Interactive Design, focused on UX/UI.

Get more detail and apply here by January 5, 2025: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

This inaugural issue of ours for #ReviewsInDH is special! @danicasavonick.bsky.social and I welcome your engagement w/ featured works + editorial note, esp. as we think through new q’s + urgencies connected w/ social justice pedagogies in DH. 💜 to @roopikarisam.bsky.social for scaffolding + support!

What are your current favorite database GUIs for beginners? (Think: humanities grad student with an increasingly non-rectangular spreadsheet on people & texts & relations among them.) #dhpedagogy

Many amazing shots in here, @scottbot.bsky.social ! Brightened my day, for sure. (And now I'm afraid I'm pushing you to find one more, but I can't not ♥️ now that I've seen...)

LullaPi: A Piano Piece Inspired by Pi Mnemonists have a lot of clever tricks for memorizing pi. As a pianist and singer, I tried translating its digits into musical notes. The seemingly arbitrary...

Happy pi day, all! Still love [this composition]( youtu.be/NmxPeBeX_38 ) by the inimitable Devin C Powell – not on Bluesky, but at www.devincpowell.com