English @ SUNY Geneseo | Christine O'Neill | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/christine/activity/ Activity feed for Christine O'Neill. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 7030d5e26fc1a5240f40258b5f227936 Christine O'Neill commented on the post, WWMS: What Would Marx Say about Digital Commons, on the site Digital Humanities at Geneseo http://dh.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/04/09/wwms-what-would-marx-say-about-digital-commons/#comment-800 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 20:51:37 -0500 Hey Becca, sorry it took me so long to get back to you. I’m certainly not a Marx expert either, but what you say makes a lot of sense to me. The thing is, Marx’s claim that capitalism will eventually fall reminds […]

]]> 365b5e81f6e7ac330020dbc02072a056 Christine O'Neill wrote a new post on the site Digital Humanities at Geneseo http://dh.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=783 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 18:46:32 -0500 ThumbnailI’m taking a course called “Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages” (INTD 388, I highly recommend it) with Professor Belyakov. Our textbook, Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language (4th ed) by […]

]]> 11a732125012a334604257a802dffc23 Christine O'Neill commented on the post, WWMS: What Would Marx Say about Digital Commons, on the site Digital Humanities at Geneseo http://dh.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/04/09/wwms-what-would-marx-say-about-digital-commons/#comment-586 Wed, 09 Apr 2014 23:03:41 -0500 This is a really fun and thoughtful post, Becca. I think it’s interesting that you say Marx would see the Internet as symptomatic of capitalism’s downfall. I’m definitely inclined to agree with that. However, I […]

]]> 389c72a304f0c1c92c42574a3cb40e94 Christine O'Neill wrote a new post on the site Digital Humanities at Geneseo http://dh.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=672 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 03:04:42 -0500 ThumbnailReading Lawrence Lessig’s “Free Culture” reminds me of a book I had to read for a high school global history class: “The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome” by Michael […]

]]> 8676e4662fb97839981ad9f2e9333cbd Christine O'Neill replied to the topic Share a tool in the forum Digital Humanities http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/share-a-tool/#post-295 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 15:05:38 -0500 Here are my tools:

1.Write Or Die – http://writeordie.com/
2.Mozilla Thunderbird – http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird
3.Typeracer – http://play.typeracer.com/

1. Write or Die is a fabulous motivator that I have been using for years. This website gives you a text box that senses when you have stopped writing. Depending on the settings you…[Read more]

]]> 39cb6cf8ce31d8d896a695fb1a605e8e Christine O'Neill wrote a new post on the site Digital Humanities at Geneseo http://dh.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=532 Wed, 12 Mar 2014 23:54:58 -0500 Reddit (the self-proclaimed “front page of the Internet”) is a website where users can create virtual forums to discuss/ask/post/help/collaborate etc. regarding any topic under the sun. Do you like cute puppies? […]

]]> cbac00b689347744227cc8cfed381ff9 Christine O'Neill commented on the post, It's Dangerous to go Alone...Video Games as Narrative, on the site Digital Humanities at Geneseo http://dh.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/03/05/its-dangerous-to-go-alone-video-games-as-narrative/#comment-131 Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:56:12 -0500 I have nothing intelligent to add to this discussion, I just want to enthusiastically echo everything that’s been said here. Since I was young, being a video game writer has actually been my dream job. There are […]

]]> 6d46be980b1b29ddcc77c8a86da458dc Christine O'Neill wrote a new post on the site Digital Humanities at Geneseo http://dh.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=368 Sun, 02 Mar 2014 08:02:56 -0500 ThumbnailFreerice.com is a site so cool, you have to see it to believe it. When you first enter the site, you will see something like this:

You would click on “trouble” as the synonym for “difficulty,” and proceed to […]

]]> f3958eb8a7bff3545dd934aff89ef68c Christine O'Neill replied to the topic Project Group Reports - 2-26-14 in the forum Digital Humanities http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/project-group-reports-2-26-14/#post-259 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:56:08 -0500 Our group has been working with Kirk Ann to plan what we’ll be analyzing in Walden. Some of the elements we’d like to look at: polarity (positivity vs negativity in the text), subjective vs. objective, co-location (two words that go together that wouldn’t statistically), stylometry (using Google’s NGram), word frequencies, grammatical trees, and…[Read more]

]]> d4cca260f5e33452b3ecbd7f132efac4 Christine O'Neill commented on the post, Once Upon a Story, on the site Digital Humanities at Geneseo http://dh.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/02/25/once-upon-a-story/#comment-77 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:29:38 -0500 I agree with much of what you said here, Kim. I think short, snappy modernizations like this help reach a wider audience, especially those learners who aren’t as reading-oriented. These videos remind me of the <a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/sassy-gay-friend&quot; […]

]]> 06c647ffd5e1315f01e7c8f1ec05d6fa Christine O'Neill wrote a new post on the site Digital Humanities at Geneseo http://dh.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/02/19/but-dont-you-think-libraries-are-dying/ Wed, 19 Feb 2014 17:57:04 -0500 Occasionally, I get into the following conversation with a family member or friend.

ME: (something about how much I love libraries and think they are humanity’s best, most democratizing invention since the […]

]]> d791e9fd23989577419727bd24673f26 Christine O'Neill commented on the post, Alone Together?, on the site Digital Humanities at Geneseo http://dh.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/02/09/alone-together/#comment-28 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 01:21:36 -0500 The idea of technology leading to an “alone together” atmosphere reminds me of an article I recently came across. Apparently, a hotel in Seattle has weekly parties where people are supposed to come and read […]

]]> 8492242a17a701038df548c60ca40f80 Christine O'Neill wrote a new post on the site Digital Humanities at Geneseo http://dh.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/02/06/aura-stories/ Thu, 06 Feb 2014 00:47:50 -0500 In class today, we were talking about an “aura” that exists around original, physical art objects. I have experienced this on several occasions, but there are two that are particularly dear to me.

One was when […]

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