Please join us for the next Digital Humanities workshop on Thursday, February 19, 12:15-1:15 pm in the IQ Center. Mackenzie Brooks, Jeff Barry, and Steve McCormick will speak about the pilot DH studio course Scholarly Text Encoding and its co-requisite course French 341. This session will provide an overview of the DH Studio concept, describe the structure of the Scholarly Text Encoding course, and explain how it integrates with the advanced French course and a grant project. To register go to http://go.wlu.edu/dhworkshops
Category: Event on campus
Tuesday, October 14, 12:15pm – 1:15pm
Digital Humanities Project/Assignment Workshopping Luncheon
Science Addition 202A
Do you have an idea that you’d like to turn into a Digital Humanities class project? Do you plan to apply for an incentive grant this October? Have questions about how to prepare, support, or assess the project?
During this luncheon, you can meet with the members of the Digital Humanities Action Team and experienced faculty to discuss and prepare your project.
This session will take place in the IQ Center 3D Lab.
Register for the workshop at http://go.wlu.edu/dhworkshops
Fall 2014 DH Workshops
The DH Working Group announces 3 workshops this fall. Free lunch included!
Monday, September 22, 2014, 12:15pm – 1:15pm
Digital Humanities Tools in the Classroom: Annotation Studio
Hillel House 101
Annotation is one method for textual engagement among many available in students’ toolkits. It is a form of active reading that documents a student’s personal learning process, combining reading with critical thinking and learning, which then allows students to practice research skills as novice scholars. Through the process of annotation, students become engaged in the analysis of texts, inspiring them to conduct further research, perhaps through text mining or data visualizations. Annotation Studio, developed by HyperStudio, the digital humanities center at M.I.T. in consultation with university instructors throughout the country, is an easy-to-use, web-based, multimedia, annotation application. However, within Annotation Studio’s digital learning environment, annotation allows for a new form of interactive reading, one that can seamlessly transition between traditional forms of solitary highlighting or note taking to collaborative close reading or shared discussions about particular passages. Digital annotation creates opportunities for new forms of social engagement with the text, for readers to share ideas, interpretations, references, sources, adaptations, or related media with other students that significantly change the way students acquire and produce knowledge. While Annotation Studio is not the only digital annotation tool available, it is unique in being the only Open-source digital annotation tool focused on the inextricably interconnected pillars of higher education: supporting the student learning process and improving pedagogy.
Rachel Schnepper, communications officer at HyperStudio, will present a series of case studies from uses of Annotation Studio in writing/composition, foreign language, and media studies classes. Through these case studies, we will demonstrate how Annotation Studio has not only continued to support traditional learning goals, such as critical thinking and analytical writing, but also promoted student learning through the application of students’ new media literacies and the peer-to-peer learning enabled by the collaborative space of digital annotation. Furthermore, through our discussion of Annotation Studio case studies, we will also establish how the application allows educators to respond and adapt with new pedagogical practices to improve student learning. Ultimately, these learning and pedagogical insights allow us at HyperStudio to reflect on the development and management of digital humanities tools, insights that are themselves essential to the continued role that digital humanities centers play at colleges and universities.
Presenter: Rachel N. Schnepper, M.I.T. HyperStudio
Register for the workshop at http://go.wlu.edu/dhworkshops
Tuesday, October 14, 12:15pm – 1:15pm
Digital Humanities Project/Assignment Workshopping Luncheon
Science Addition 202A
Do you have an idea that you’d like to turn into a Digital Humanities class project? Do you plan to apply for an incentive grant this October? Have questions about how to prepare, support, or assess the project?
During this luncheon, you can meet with the members of the Digital Humanities Action Team and experienced faculty to discuss and prepare your project.
This session will take place in the IQ Center 3D Lab.
Register for the workshop at http://go.wlu.edu/dhworkshops
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Digital Humanities November Luncheon
Hillel House 101
More details to follow.
Register for the workshop at http://go.wlu.edu/dhworkshops
Academic Technologies will be hosting a digital storytelling workshop for W&L faculty, January 7-9, facilitated by the Center for Digital Storytelling.
During this three-day hands-on workshop, participants will learn about the pedagogy of digital storytelling while creating their own 3-5 minute multimedia narratives using iMovie and Audacity.
Breakfasts and lunches will be catered all three days of the workshop.
There are eleven slots available for the workshop; applicants will be chosen based on strength of proposals for incorporating digital storytelling into their class(es) and ability to attend all three days of the workshop. Faculty from all disciplines are encouraged to apply.
If you would like to be considered for the workshop, please submit your application by Friday, October 3.
Applicants will be notified by October 15, 2014 if they have been accepted into the workshop.
Questions? Please contact Julie Knudson, Director of Academic Technologies, or Brandon Bucy, PhD, Senior Academic Technologist.
We are excited to announce there will be several sessions related to Digital Humanities during the upcoming Fall Academy:
Day of DH 2014, Wednesday Sept 3:
- Reports from the Front: A Discussion with the 2014 Digital Humanities Incentive Grant Awardees Wednesday, Sept 03, 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM, Hillel 101 (Breakfast session)
- Visualization Techniques: Mapplication & Timeline Wednesday, Sept 03, 11 – 11:55 AM, Hillel 101
- W&L and UVa Digital Humanities Partnership Wednesday, Sept 03, 12 – 1:30 PM, Hillel 101
- Diving into Text with Voyant Tools and More Wednesday, Sept 03, 2 – 2:55 PM, Hillel 101
- Image Map: A New DH Tool for W&L Wednesday, Sept 03, 3 – 4 PM, Hillel 101
Additional Sessions:
- Concept Mapping in the Classroom: Pedagogy and Tools Monday August 25, 9-10am, Science Addition 202A
- Intro to Digital Storytelling Wednesday August 27, 10:30-11:30, Leyburn Library M47
- The LION in the Classroom Monday, Sept 01, 1:30 – 2:30 PM, Leyburn Library M47
Faculty and staff should see http://go.wlu.edu/fallacademy for further information.
Washington & Lee University will host an International Meeting entitled Newton’s Apple and Other Historical Myths about Science on May 9-10, 2014. This conference has been organized by Kostas Kampourakis (University of Geneva), Ronald L. Numbers (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and Nicolaas Rupke (Washington & Lee University).
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The W&L Digital Humanities Working Group is excited to announce our Winter 2013 Faculty Academy: DH in the Classroom. We hope you can come for some or all of the events!
Session Title: The Pedagogy of Digital Humanities
Session Description: Interested in integrating the tools and techniques of Digital Humanities into your courses? Curious about what Digital Humanities projects entail? Bethany Nowviskie, Director of Digital Research and Scholarship at University of Virginia’s library, will share her expertise with us at this lunchtime session. Bring your appetite and your questions. Event sponsored by the Associated Colleges of the South. See http://nowviskie.org/2013/resistance-in-the-materials/#more-1978 for more information on Bethany.
A story about classics professor Rebecca Benefiel and computer science professor Sara Sprenkle’s Ancient Graffiti Project: W&L Faculty to Present Collaborative Project at LAWDI Institute