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About Samuel Halpert

Username: halpert

Member Since: 30 November 2006

My Bookmarks: http://edtags.org/bookmarks.php/halpert

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Name: Samuel Halpert

Homepage: www.fas.harvard.edu/halpert

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Hi! I'm Sam Halpert. I'm just finishing up my undergraduate career at Harvard (I'll be earning my degree in January) as a History and Literature concentrator with a focus in Medieval Studies. Extracurricularly, I've always been interested in computers, and in the past few years have been developing my skills in the area of web design. Briefly, here's what I've been doing with computers over the past few years: From January 2004 until October 2006 I worked for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' Computer Services department (serving as a student supervisor from October 2004), where I recently contributed to a redesign of the user assistant program's internal web portal. In the first half of 2005 I worked as an in-house consultant for Informatika Beograd (a Serbian IT firm), where I produced recommendations for a restructuring of the company's customer service department attached to PC sales. My recommendations involved new database-driven problem-tracking software, which I (roughly) prototyped to demonstrate its value to management. I'm currently the webmaster of www.veritones.com, where I've been working for roughly a year-and-a-half on a complete overhaul of the online face of a student group I'm involved in. My various activities have left me with a working knowledge of CSS, PHP, Perl, Javascript, and XML (XHTML included). Most recently, I've been working with Catalina Laserna, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and the Director of the Certificate of Studies in Education program as a Teaching Fellow for her course, "Transformations of Mind," which is currently being taught through the extension school as Anthropology E-166. The course's central question is “How do information technologies shape the way we teach and learn?” As I've worked and studied in college, I've become very interested in the connections that can be drawn between my work as a medievalist and my experience with computers and computer-mediated textuality. Seeing the 20th century’s lively debate over the nature of textuality as catalyzed by the development of textual cultures based around media other than the written word (film, radio, networked-text, etc.), I've tried throughout my time at Harvard to relate my ideas about modern approaches to competing, diverse narrative cultures to my study of the Middle Ages—a period which is bookended by the introduction of writing (in extra-Roman Europe) at one end and the introduction of printing at the other. Given my background, I'm excited about being involved in the EdTags project--it seems like an interesting attempt to adapt the folksonomic techniques that are becoming prevalent in the organization of online data to the more formalized systems required for academic citation. Count me in!

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