UVA’s Scholars’ Lab has a series of workshops that may be of interest to our faculty.
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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.
If you’re wondering how DH got started at W&L and what’s been happening here over the last couple of years with DH, then you’ll want to read Launching the Digital Humanities Movement at Washington and Lee University: A Case Study.
Here’s an excerpt:
Improving student learning, however, first requires defining the learning outcomes expected through DH. One can find an excellent set of learning outcomes and priorities in Digital_Humanities emphasizing “the ability to think critically with digital methods to formulate projects that have humanities questions at their core” (Burdick et al. 2012, 134). Indeed, the mode of critical thinking with digital methods must be incorporated within the mindset of faculty, IT professionals, and librarians to effectively teach with the digital humanities.
Such thinking is the key to the future of digital humanities on this campus. Dean Keen offers an energetic vision:
In ten years, digital humanities projects will be so diffused throughout the curriculum that they no longer look experimental; they gain broad acceptance as a legitimate mode of student work. Student transcripts contain links to their DH projects as part of demonstrated student learning outcomes. Our liberal arts grads possess not only information fluency, but the craft skills to make and manipulate digital artifacts. Parsing large data sets in easily visualized and nuanced ways becomes a normal skill of our humanities grads, along with writing and critical thinking (Suzanne Keen, e-mail message to author, March 11, 2014).
The key for success of the digital humanities at a small liberal arts college is to focus on the learning outcomes. Identify the knowledge and skills that students should acquire through the DH assignments in a course, and think deeply about how students can transfer that digital learning to their other courses and their lives beyond graduation. In the end, the value of the digital humanities is to reinforce the critical thinking and lifelong learning skills that are the foundation of a liberal arts education.
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DH Incentive Grant Recipients
The Digital Humanities Working Group would like to congratulate Joel Blecher and Jon Eastwood on being recipients of funding from the second round of Digital Humanities Incentive Grants. Feel free to take a closer look at both of their wonderful proposals for integrating DH techniques and tools into their courses:
Blecher proposal for Fall 2014 course
Eastwood proposal for Winter 2015 course
Also check out the proposals of past Incentive Grant recipients:
Hank Dobin: Representing Queen Elizabeth
Sascha Goluboff: Campus Sex in the Digital Age
Howard Pickett: Connecting the Dots- Mapping Low-Income Needs and Services in the Rockbridge Area
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).
Conference Program: Historical_ Myths_Conference_Landscape-format
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W&L to Host International Science Conference
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).
Conference Program: Historical_ Myths_Conference_Landscape-format
Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference: 14-16 November 2014
Call for Proposals
Bucknell University, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will host its first annual international digital scholarship conference. The theme of the conference is “Collaborating Digitally: Engaging Students in Faculty Research” with the goal of gathering a broad community of scholar-practitioners engaged in collaborative digital scholarship in research and teaching.
This conference will bring together a broad community of scholar-practitioners engaged in collaborative digital scholarship in research and teaching. We encourage presentations that emphasize forms of collaboration: between institutions of higher education; across disciplines; between faculty, librarians, and technologists; and between faculty and students. We welcome contributions from scholars, educators, technologists, librarians, administrators, and students who use digital tools and methods, and encourage submissions from emerging and established scholar-practitioners alike, including those who are new to digital collaboration.
Submission topics may include but are not limited to: engaging with space and place; creating innovative teaching and learning environments; perspectives on implications for the individual’s own research and pedagogy within the institutional landscape, etc.
Presentations may take the form of short papers, project demos, electronic posters, panel discussions, or lightning talks.
For more information about submitting a presentation proposal, please go to the Bucknell Digital Initiatives website: http://goo.gl/eoOnK4 . The deadline for proposals is August 1, 2014.
If you have questions or would like more information about the submission process, please email conference coordinator Diane Jakacki: diane.jakacki@bucknell.edu.
Bucknell is a private liberal arts university located alongside the historic Susquehanna River in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. At Bucknell “Digital Scholarship” is defined as any scholarly activity that makes extensive use of one or more of the new possibilities for teaching and research opened up by the unique affordances of digital media. These include, but are not limited to, new forms of collaboration, new forms of publication, and new methods for visualizing and analyzing data.
Washington and Lee faculty:
Are you considering employing Digital Humanities pedagogy in a fall 2014 or winter 2015 course? If you are undertaking an ambitious new augmenation of your teaching toolbox, one that will introduce you and your students to humanities/social science computing skill sets, tell us about it. Propose your fall or winter DH course-based project to DHAT@wlu.edu by Monday, 21 April, the first day of Spring Term. Members of the Digital Humanities Working Group will select two fall term and two winter term DH course projects for $1,000 stipends.
Competitve proposals will integrate computing tools such as visualization techniques (Mapplication, Timeline), data mining, computational analysis, digitized annotated editions of texts, or crowd-sourced interpretations. Preference will be given to plausible projects that will reach all students in your course: tell us about how you think you’d evaluate their work. How will your DH project help students meet course, program, or FDR learning objectives?
The DHAT (Digital Humanities Action Team) members are ready to assist DH projects, large and small. Check out what W&L faculty have already done at Generally Digital. If you have a course project you’d like to add to our blog, write to DHAT@wlu.edu .
All undergraduate courses and faculty are eligible to apply except for those who have already received an incentive grant in the first round.
Suzanne Keen, Dean of the College