Space, Place, and Digital Tools: Creating A Semester Long Digital Assignment

Space, Place, and Digital ToolsCreating A Semester Long Digital Assignment

A presentation at the 55th Annual Florida Conference of Historians

Julian C. ChamblissChair and Associate Professor, Department of History

Mike Gunter, Jr.

Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of International RelationsRollins College

HOW DID

WE GET

HERE?

A FOCUS ON COMMUNITY

ENGAGEMENT ALLOWS

FIGURES SUCH AS

ZORA NEALE HURSTON

TO BECOME THE

FOUNDATION FOR

COMMUNITY BASED

DIGITAL PEDAGOGICAL

PROJECTS.

DIGITAL PROJECTS

GENERATE EXHIBITS

ON DISPLAY AT THE JACKSONVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY

GENERATING TOOLS TO

FURTHER ENHANCE

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

A CASE STUDY ON

DESIGNING PEDAGOGY

TEACH-IN ON POLLUTION

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, 1970

USING THE

THIRDSIGHT

HISTORY

MODEL

INSPIRED BY ASSOCIATED COLLEGES

OF THE SOUTH (ACS) GRANT

AIMED AT LEAP

LEARNING OUTCOMES:-

INQUIRY & ANAYLSIS,

CRITICAL THINKING,

INFORMATION LITERACY

AND WRITTEN

COMMUNICATION

PERHAPS A BETTER QUESTION

IS HOW WILL DIGITAL

PEDAOGOGY INTERSECT WITH

DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP?

POTENTIAL“to experience,

read, and follow

an argument

about a

historical

problem…”

Daniel J. Cohen et al., “Interchange:

The Promise of Digital History,” The

Journal of American History 95, no. 2

(September 1, 2008): 454.

A WAY TO EXPLAIN THE

HISTORY ENGINE

PROCESS!

A SEMESTER LONG

ASSIGNMENT

A SEMESTER LONG

ASSIGNMENT

OUTCOMES

THIS ASSIGNMENT HAS THE

POTENTIAL TO DEEPLY

ENGAGE STUDENTS WITH

UNDERSTANDING OF BOTH

HISTORY AND POLICY

AROUND URBAN

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES.

THANK YOU

Dr. Julian C. Chambliss

Rollins College

[email protected]

Twitter: @JulianChambliss

www.julianchambliss.com