Ella Howard
@ellakhoward.bsky.social
Professor, first gen, historian of cities, current book project on history of historic preservation districts
Author of Homeless: https://www.pennpress.org/9780812244724/homeless/
ellakhoward.com
Author of Homeless: https://www.pennpress.org/9780812244724/homeless/
ellakhoward.com
I was excited to participate in this weekend's VR Jam sponsored by our student chapter of ACM at Wentworth Institute of Technology. VR development is an amazing space to engage students in learning about History. My workshop covered interactions and materials in Unity.
March 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I was excited to participate in this weekend's VR Jam sponsored by our student chapter of ACM at Wentworth Institute of Technology. VR development is an amazing space to engage students in learning about History. My workshop covered interactions and materials in Unity.
Excited to see Prof. Heyda speak!
March 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Excited to see Prof. Heyda speak!
Anyone interested in teaching history through VR development should jump right in. With the LLMs, we are in a new era of Digital Humanities. You and your students can create anything you can imagine. #DH #digitalhumanities
March 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Anyone interested in teaching history through VR development should jump right in. With the LLMs, we are in a new era of Digital Humanities. You and your students can create anything you can imagine. #DH #digitalhumanities
I've decided to share my Recreating Historical Spaces for VR tutorials and scripts publicly. I'm always open to collaboration on projects and research, so please reach out if interested.
github.com/ellakhoward/...
#DH #digitalhumanities #urbanrenewal #vr #urbanhistory
github.com/ellakhoward/...
#DH #digitalhumanities #urbanrenewal #vr #urbanhistory
GitHub - ellakhoward/Historic-VR-Resources: Public resources for recreating historic spaces for VR centered in our project recreating Boston's West End
Public resources for recreating historic spaces for VR centered in our project recreating Boston's West End - ellakhoward/Historic-VR-Resources
github.com
March 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I've decided to share my Recreating Historical Spaces for VR tutorials and scripts publicly. I'm always open to collaboration on projects and research, so please reach out if interested.
github.com/ellakhoward/...
#DH #digitalhumanities #urbanrenewal #vr #urbanhistory
github.com/ellakhoward/...
#DH #digitalhumanities #urbanrenewal #vr #urbanhistory
Step one of course prep for January's course recreating Boston's West End in VR is complete! #DH
✅Created cube in ESRI CityEngine
✅Imported to Unity
✅Got approval as Meta Developer
✅Configured and rebuilt... everything many times
✅Learned about the ports on my computer
✅Can see cube in Quest 2!!!
✅Created cube in ESRI CityEngine
✅Imported to Unity
✅Got approval as Meta Developer
✅Configured and rebuilt... everything many times
✅Learned about the ports on my computer
✅Can see cube in Quest 2!!!
November 24, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Step one of course prep for January's course recreating Boston's West End in VR is complete! #DH
✅Created cube in ESRI CityEngine
✅Imported to Unity
✅Got approval as Meta Developer
✅Configured and rebuilt... everything many times
✅Learned about the ports on my computer
✅Can see cube in Quest 2!!!
✅Created cube in ESRI CityEngine
✅Imported to Unity
✅Got approval as Meta Developer
✅Configured and rebuilt... everything many times
✅Learned about the ports on my computer
✅Can see cube in Quest 2!!!
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November 24, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Today in Salem, MA, we rallied in support of trans rights across from the office of the representative who shall not be named.
Do not scapegoat trans kids for the failings of the Democratic party.
Do not scapegoat trans kids for the failings of the Democratic party.
November 17, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Today in Salem, MA, we rallied in support of trans rights across from the office of the representative who shall not be named.
Do not scapegoat trans kids for the failings of the Democratic party.
Do not scapegoat trans kids for the failings of the Democratic party.
"I hate to be ungallant, but looking at you I see nothing but the misery you've caused." - Barnabas to Angelique on Dark Shadows but also suitable for use with some academic administrators.
November 11, 2024 at 12:16 AM
"I hate to be ungallant, but looking at you I see nothing but the misery you've caused." - Barnabas to Angelique on Dark Shadows but also suitable for use with some academic administrators.
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A few to start: @urbanhistory.bsky.social @haroldberube.bsky.social @maryrizzo.bsky.social @jorgenleal.bsky.social @toddmichney.bsky.social @lwinling.bsky.social @jackiantonovich.bsky.social @shannanclark.bsky.social @melanienewport.bsky.social @walterdgreason.bsky.social @ellakhoward.bsky.social
If there isn't already an urban history starter pack, it shouldn't be hard to find enough users to start one @urbanhistorya.bsky.social
Is there an urban history starter pack? Of digital history?
November 10, 2024 at 10:23 PM
In conversations with students this week I have realized this is true. Many college students have no idea that the government protects natural spaces from resource extraction, for instance.
We solved so many problems so well that most people don’t know that they were ever problems, and so their base assumption is that this is the natural order of the world when it’s actually a fragile system held up by an expansive administrative state…which millions just voted to dismantle.
"We have a mandate to dismantle the regulatory state - and both the power and the will to do so,"
Is explicitly what they ran on and enough of the US has just always had clean water and safe food and some manor of workplace protection that they categorically do not understand what a threat that is.
Is explicitly what they ran on and enough of the US has just always had clean water and safe food and some manor of workplace protection that they categorically do not understand what a threat that is.
November 11, 2024 at 12:06 AM
In conversations with students this week I have realized this is true. Many college students have no idea that the government protects natural spaces from resource extraction, for instance.
Welcome new folks! Let's make some good things happen.
November 11, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Welcome new folks! Let's make some good things happen.
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The reason we need liberal arts education is so that engineers don’t say things like “we’ll just make sure the computer can look up the truth”
No big deal, just identify an authoritative source of truth for literally every possible question. Surely that can’t be hard.
April 12, 2024 at 7:09 PM
The reason we need liberal arts education is so that engineers don’t say things like “we’ll just make sure the computer can look up the truth”
I'm excited to be learning and presenting at today's Greater Boston Digital Research & Pedagogy Symposium!
April 12, 2024 at 1:25 PM
I'm excited to be learning and presenting at today's Greater Boston Digital Research & Pedagogy Symposium!
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I'm in town a bit again these days for the first time in quite a few years, and I'm seeing this bogus nonsense everywhere.
(via Reddit, this is what the Sackville Lounge looks like now)
(via Reddit, this is what the Sackville Lounge looks like now)
April 11, 2024 at 2:37 PM
I'm in town a bit again these days for the first time in quite a few years, and I'm seeing this bogus nonsense everywhere.
(via Reddit, this is what the Sackville Lounge looks like now)
(via Reddit, this is what the Sackville Lounge looks like now)
When there has been no audience or a very small one, this has happened organically and often been wonderful.
Hey #skystorians! I went to a “fellows shoptalk” at the American Academy in Rome with a fantastic format.
1. Two scholars talk about their projects for 15-20 min. each
2. Scholars *talk to one another* about connections between their work for 20 min.
3. Q&A
Let’s do more of this. 🗃️ #oah2024
1. Two scholars talk about their projects for 15-20 min. each
2. Scholars *talk to one another* about connections between their work for 20 min.
3. Q&A
Let’s do more of this. 🗃️ #oah2024
April 10, 2024 at 11:45 AM
When there has been no audience or a very small one, this has happened organically and often been wonderful.
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for Godzilla, every city is walkable
April 4, 2024 at 7:15 PM
for Godzilla, every city is walkable
I will post replies to this thread about tonight's screening and discussion of Inundation District.
Speaking tonight after the film will be Joe Christo of the Stone Living Lab and Sanjay Seth, Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor for Climate and Equity in EPA 1. #EnvHist
Speaking tonight after the film will be Joe Christo of the Stone Living Lab and Sanjay Seth, Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor for Climate and Equity in EPA 1. #EnvHist
March 21, 2024 at 10:24 PM
I will post replies to this thread about tonight's screening and discussion of Inundation District.
Speaking tonight after the film will be Joe Christo of the Stone Living Lab and Sanjay Seth, Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor for Climate and Equity in EPA 1. #EnvHist
Speaking tonight after the film will be Joe Christo of the Stone Living Lab and Sanjay Seth, Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor for Climate and Equity in EPA 1. #EnvHist
I'm excited to attend a screening and discussion tonight of Inundation District, about Boston's precarious seaport. I may live skeet this. #envhist
March 21, 2024 at 8:18 PM
I'm excited to attend a screening and discussion tonight of Inundation District, about Boston's precarious seaport. I may live skeet this. #envhist
This.
And yes, it would be the solution.
If RBG did what Breyer did and retired strategically — as GOP appointees do constantly — then maybe we’d still have Roe.
You’re valuing the position of one woman above the rights of all women. It’s completely bizarre.
If RBG did what Breyer did and retired strategically — as GOP appointees do constantly — then maybe we’d still have Roe.
You’re valuing the position of one woman above the rights of all women. It’s completely bizarre.
March 21, 2024 at 12:45 AM
This.
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one of the many functions of racism is to help extremely mediocre white people save face. “i would have had that job if i were an unqualified negro” is classic.
March 20, 2024 at 8:01 PM
one of the many functions of racism is to help extremely mediocre white people save face. “i would have had that job if i were an unqualified negro” is classic.
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It’s like men’s content but more absorbent and with wings!
March 16, 2024 at 1:46 PM
It’s like men’s content but more absorbent and with wings!
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:sighs in librarians have been yelling about this for literal decades:
“there’s a misconception that digital files are safe forever. In fact, files end up corrupted, data is improperly transferred, hard drives fail, formats change, work simply vanishes. ‘It’s a silent fire’”
Via THR
Via THR
“It’s a Silent Fire”: Decaying Digital Movie and TV Show Files Are a Hollywood Crisis
Industry pros sweat the possibility that many digital files will eventually become unusable — an archival tragedy reminiscent of the celluloid era.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
March 16, 2024 at 2:08 PM
:sighs in librarians have been yelling about this for literal decades:
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Higher ed is a complicated consumer good to the extent we think of it that way and telling people that expensive schools can just be internet era correspondence courses was not such good marketing
March 11, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Higher ed is a complicated consumer good to the extent we think of it that way and telling people that expensive schools can just be internet era correspondence courses was not such good marketing
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Love how this pic captures our decaying subway stations, which apparently we can’t afford to fix because all of our money has to go towards the overtime of cops & military doing security theater.
March 7, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Love how this pic captures our decaying subway stations, which apparently we can’t afford to fix because all of our money has to go towards the overtime of cops & military doing security theater.
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Next fall I'll be teaching a new course called Sociology of Climate Change. Gearing up now to put it on students' radar as enrollment approaches. Gonna be a huge challenge to decide on readings & other materials. I'll publicly share the syllabus once it's done.
#greensky #sociology #geosky #envhist
#greensky #sociology #geosky #envhist
March 7, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Next fall I'll be teaching a new course called Sociology of Climate Change. Gearing up now to put it on students' radar as enrollment approaches. Gonna be a huge challenge to decide on readings & other materials. I'll publicly share the syllabus once it's done.
#greensky #sociology #geosky #envhist
#greensky #sociology #geosky #envhist