Digital pedagogy in the Humanities: Models, Keywords, Prototypes

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!

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Thank you.!St. Edward’s University!

Thank you.!St. Edward’s University!

Thank you.!St. Edward’s University!