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Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities!Models, Keywords, and Prototypes!
Slides and References!• http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/!• Twitter: @frostdavis!• #digipedkit!
Scarcity! Abundance!
Networks!
Building Networks!• Connections!• Collaboration!• Standards !• Granovetter, M. S. “The Strength of Weak Ties.”
American Journal of Sociology (1973): 1360–1380.!
Mass Industrializa.on MOOC
Mass Customiza.on Amazon
Small Liberal Arts Colleges Humani.es Projects
Local
The Long Tail!
DH and Liberal Education!Alexander & Davis. “Should Liberal Arts Campuses Do Digital Humanities? Process and Products in the Small College World.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, ed. Matthew K. Gold. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.!
NITLE Survey of Digital Humanities at Liberal Arts Colleges!
• AY 2012-2013: survey & interviews!• Current results!– 32 institutions!– 50 responses!
• Questions!– Activities!– Support!– curriculum!
faculty
library
administrator
IT
museum
Why DH? (individual)!
Curricular Structure!• Of 32 institutions surveyed: !– 1 has a major, minor, or program!– 4 have a digital humanities course, e.g.,
Introduction to Digital Humanities!– 23 have courses with some Digital
Humanities!
Avenues to Engage Undergrads in Digital Humanities!
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Coursework#
Undergrad#Research#
Thesis/Project#
Work#
Internship#
Digital Humanities as Liberal Arts Mission!
• Undergraduate research !• Pedagogy!– active & collaborative learning!– project based & applied learning !
• Preparing citizens in a networked world !• Interdisciplinary work & integrative
learning!• Civic engagement & place-based learning!
Pedagogical Experimentation !• Digital Humanities Pedagogy:
Practices, Principles and Politics, ed. Brett Hirsch, 2013!
• http://www.openbookpublishers.com/reader/161 !
MLA 2012: A project is born!
Ma@ Gold
Kathy Harris
Jentery Sayers
Rebecca Davis
Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities:
Models, Keywords,
Prototypes!
No!• Reflective Essays about teaching!• Organized by discipline!• Remediation of digital into print!• Static!• Isolated !
Yes!• Born digital!• Curation of Pedagogical artifacts!• Multi- & Cross-disciplinary!• Interactive living archive !• Networked !• Tagged!• Open!
Keywords!• Raymond Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of
Culture and Society (1975 & 1983) !• Defining discourse!• Building discourse across domains!• Revealing tensions!
Playing with Text Analysis!
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Keywords!• Play!• Failure!• Text Analysis!• Visualization!
Undergraduate Research!• Student-faculty collaborative research!• Tasks in expertise range of students!• Meaningful contributions!
!Chris Blackwell & Tom Mar.n, “Technology, Collabora.on, and Undergraduate Research.” Digital Humani,es Quarterly 3, no. 1 (2009).
Undergrad Sourcing!
• Collaboration!• Work!• Praxis!
Keywords!
The Office Monkey by Flickr user Shaz Wildcat
Wheaton College Digital History Project!
• Kathryn Tomasek, Associate Professor of History!
• History methods course!
• Transcribing & encoding archives!
• Partners: archivist, technologist, librarian!
Day Book!
Daily accounting of transactions that reflect the many business activities of Laban Morey Wheaton between 1828 and 1859!!NEH DH Start-up grant: Encoding Financial Records for Historical Research !
Collaborative Research Assignment!
• Stage 1: Background Reading in Secondary Sources!
• Stage 2: Transcription and Coding of Daybook Page Spreads!
• Stage 3: Writing and Editing Episodes for the History Engine!
• Stage 4: Writing a Paper Based on Primary Sources!
Google Doc for Collecting Data!
Process Checklist for Integrating Digital Humanities Projects into Courses!
1. Connecting Course and Project!2. Scaffolding and Chunking!3. Collaborative Teaching!4. Logistics!!http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/process-checklist-for-integrating-digital-humanities-projects-into-courses/ !
Keywords!• GLAM!• Place-based!• Collaboration!• Praxis!
Enduring Women!
Keywords!• GLAM!• Public!• Multimodal!• Composition!• Gender!
Public Digital Scholarship!
Cura,on, Collabora,on, Praxis, Community, Race
Increasing Expertise!
Using Digital Resources
Contribu.ng to Digital Resources
Producing Digital Resources
CITIZENS FOR A GLOBALLY NETWORKED WORLD!
• Davidson, Math Maps!• Lewis and Clark, Digital
Field Scholarship Seminar!
• Muhlenberg, Documentary Research Storymapping!
• Reed College, Carbon ! Field Studies!
Digital Field Scholarship!
Place-‐based, Collabora,on, Praxis, Community, Fieldwork, Mul,modal, Composi,on, Storytelling
Situating the Global Environment!• Lewis & Clark College!• https://sge.lclark.edu/ !• Jim Proctor,
“Situated Social Learning”!• Interdisciplinary
environmental research!• Situated research!
– Local focus on global issues!
Social learning!• Document research process!• Share research resources!• Share references !• Aggregate projects on blog!
– Maps!– Tags!– Concept maps!– Mashups!
Globally Networked High Impact Practices!
• Common intellectual experience!– Reflecting on research!
• Learning communities online!• Collaborative projects!• Undergraduate research!• Global learning!• Community-based learning!• Documenting learning experiences!
• Collaboration!• Community!• Composition!• Curation!• Failure!• Fieldwork!• Gender!• GLAM!• Multimodal!
• Place-based!• Play!• Praxis!• Public!• Race!• Storytelling !• Text Analysis!• Visualization!• Work!
One Vision of Digital Pedagogy!
What will your prototype be?!
Thank you!St. Edward’s University!
Thank you.!St. Edward’s University!
Thank you.!St. Edward’s University!
Thank you.!St. Edward’s University!
Thank you.!St. Edward’s University!