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Jan 28 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Global History through Graphic Novels

Cannot wait to teach the course derailed by Covid so long ago…
I may also teach this via @StanfordCSP if they’re interested. This would open it up to… well… the whole world!
Come say hi on TikTok, graphic novel lovers! 👋
One last one, since this graphic novel history of Hip Hop is unmissable (via TikTok :)
If I made this into an online course, who would be interested? 🖐?
Global History through Graphic Novels

ENROLLMENT NOW OPEN for Summer '22

Response was overwhelming so I'm making this an online course for EVERYONE

HS & College Students = FREE
"Support How You Can" for Everyone Else (but Free is OK)

SYLLABUS 👇
precursormag.com/graphic/
Global History through Graphic Novels

ENROLLMENT NOW OPEN for Summer '22

The response was overwhelming so I'm making this an online course for everyone

HS & College Students = FREE
"Support How You Can" for Everyone Else (but Free is OK)

SYLLABUS 👇
precursormag.com/graphic/
Hello to all the lovely people who RT'ed and LIKED when it came to my question. I'm so happy to report that the course is NOW OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT and 100+ people have already signed up!

👇👇👇
precursormag.com/graphic/
Also... Win a MEGAPACK of the Graphic Novels used for the new online course "GLOBAL HISTORY through GRAPHIC NOVELS"

In celebration of the new course, here's a fun free giveaway. So excited to send someone a turn-key library of amazing graphic novels!

precursormag.com/giveaway

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Jul 21, 2021
In China, suburban garages don't factor in the lore of computing history the way they do in the U.S. But prisons do – at least, one particular prison in which a Chinese engineer was sentenced to solitary confinement for thought crimes against Mao /1

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His name was Zhi Bingyi and, during long and anxiety-ridden days, months and years of solitude, he made a breakthrough that helped launch China’s personal computing revolution: he helped make it possible to type Chinese with a QWERTY keyboard. /2

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Unsure if he would ever see his wife again, and with no work to occupy his mind, Zhi filled the long hours staring at an 8-character poster on the wall:

坦白从宽，抗拒从严
‘Leniency For Those Who Confess, Severity For Those Who Resist’

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May 6, 2021
Making the 1st digital fonts for Chinese in the 70s & 80s was

extremely

hard

work.

Each character was 256 bits

Or really: 256 choices re: where to put a pixel, or not, inside a tiny grid.

1000s of characters, 100s of 1000s of choices.

HELP! Where can I pitch this article?
(I was so moved and inspired by everyone’s help yesterday, that I thought it best to ask the wisdom of the crowd again!)
ps I should mention: I have access to ALL of the process documents and rough drafts. It is an *unbelievably* cool archival collection!!!
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Mar 16, 2021
Everyone in my feed seems to agree with this article, here and on FB, so I should probably keep quiet. Instead, and at risk of a pile-on, here's a thread on why I disagree. 🧵

timeshighereducation.com/opinion/academ… via @timeshighered
1) it's definitely true that we profs are terrible videographers and editors when compared to professionals. But, for the most part, we are also terrible lecturers and lesson designers. Having room to grow is not a reason not to do something. It's a reason to try harder.
2) I’m not sure that the purpose of the lecture hall in the wake of the print revolution was dialogue between instructor and students. The roundtable and salon yes, but not the 200-person amphitheater. Over time, lectures became more about dialogue. There is no "golden age."
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Nov 18, 2020
It is an absolute thrill to share the cover of our forthcoming book, Your Computer is on Fire, set to come out in March 2021 w/ @mitpress | Co-edited with @bjpeters @histoftech and @techno_kavi More info here (+ TOC in the thread below!): mitpress.mit.edu/books/your-com…
@tsmullaney Your Computer is On Fire
@histoftech When Did the Fire Start?
@NEnsmenger The Cloud is a Factory
@ubiquity75 Your AI is a Human
@bjpeters A Network is Not a Network
@techno_kavi The Internet Will Be Decolonized
@mitalithakor Capture is Pleasure
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@histoftech Sexism is a Feature, Not a Bug
Corinna Schlombs | Gender is a Corporate Tool
@Halcyon_L Siri Disciplines
@safiyanoble Your Robot Isn’t Neutral
@andrealstanton Broken is Word
@noahwf You Can’t Make Games About Much
@JanetAbbateVT Coding is Not Empowerment
/3
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Nov 17, 2020
.@StanfordDaily asked for a comment, and here is what I said re: this official response from @Stanford to @ScottWAtlas /1
“What Atlas wrote was unequivocally wrong, and yet Stanford's official statement was insipid and spineless. Gmail's AI auto-responder could have done better job.” /2
“So many of us love Stanford--truly love this place--and what we're yearning for is leadership. True, heartfelt, blood-temperature leadership.” /3
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Jul 18, 2020
Secret Way to Find Archival Materials in the U.S.

Go to Google
Enter this in your search bar, exactly: “XYZ” AND “Finding Aid”
Replace XYZ with your phrase, name, term
Enjoy!
90% of results will be from Archives, Special Collections, etc.
Pro Tip: run multiple searches, using different spellings/variations of your term
Pro Pro Trip: you can also use multiple terms. Just run the search as “XYZ” AND “ABC” AND “Finding Aid”
And don’t be a greedy researcher: RT this tip RIGHT NOW :)
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