Category Archives: Session: Play

Proposal for a session in which you play a game, or in which you play around as a group with one or more technologies, or in which you do something fun or original.

TALK/PLAY – TextLab Project in Practice

Posted on March 2, 2016 by Rebecca Russell

TextLab is a Vertically Integrated Project at the University of Strathclyde involving students from the English Literature department and the Computer & Information Science department. We use tools like: AntConc (www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/), a freeware text analysis toolkit for concordancing and text … Continue reading →

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TEACH/PLAY – Scaling Up Impact

Posted on February 26, 2016 by Julie Weeds

Researchers in every field are being made increasingly aware of the need for their research to have impact. However, often researchers don’t realize where beyond their own field of study their research might have impact. How does one go about … Continue reading →

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TEACH/PLAY – Treating BMD data as a ‘(semi-)closed set’

Posted on February 18, 2016 by Richard Light

Starting from 1837, the GRO Civil Registration index provides a nominally complete record of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales.  The FreeBMD project has transcribed the vast majority of this material (up to 1983, when the GRO register … Continue reading →

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