digital pedagogy in the liberal arts

Digital Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts!Models, Keywords, and Prototypes!

Slides and References!•  http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/!•  Twitter: @frostdavis!•  #digipedkit!

Scarcity! Abundance!

Networks!

Mass  Industrializa.on  MOOC  

Mass  Customiza.on  Amazon  

Small  Liberal  Arts  Colleges  Humani.es  Projects  

Local    

The Long Tail!

“Going  the  Distance:  Online  Educa.on  in  the  United  States”  (2011),  p.  7.            100%                                    MOOC                            Massive  Open  Online  Course  

Online Learning as Delivery Method!

MLA 2012: A project is born!

MaP  Gold  

Kathy  Harris  

Jentery  Sayers  

Rebecca  Davis  

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!

!!A.!Models, Keywords, and Prototypes !

!!B.!Concepts, Models, and Experiments!

Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities:!

Keywords!•  Raymond Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of

Culture and Society (1975 & 1983) !•  Defining discourse!•  Building discourse across domains!•  Revealing tensions!

Digital Pedagogy Keywords!•  What are your keywords? !•  List 5.!•  Tweet them. #digipedkit!

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 !

Collaboration!•  Ability to work in a team!•  Collaborative learning!•  Participatory culture!•  Group project!•  Needed for liberal arts colleges!•  Characteristic of Digital Humanities!

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/ !

Teamwork VALUE Rubric!Teamwork is behaviors under the control of individual team members (effort they put into team tasks, their manner of interacting with others on team, and the quantity and quality of contributions they make to team discussions.)!!http://www.aacu.org/value/rubrics/pdf/teamwork.pdf !

Enduring Women!

Keywords!•  GLAM!•  Public!•  Multimodal!•  Composition!•  Gender!

Public Digital Scholarship!

Cura,on,  Collabora,on,  Praxis,  Community,  Race  

Scaffolding Digital Scholarship!

Using  Digital  Resources  

Contribu.ng  to  Digital  Resources  

Producing  Digital  Resources  

CITIZENS FOR A GLOBALLY NETWORKED WORLD!

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!

Prototype!•  An early sample, model or release of a product

built to test a concept or process or to act as a thing to be replicated or learned from!

•  Prototyping serves to provide specifications for a real, working system rather than a theoretical one.!

•  from πρῶτος (protos), "first" and τύπος (typos), "impression"!

•  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  

•  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 models inspire you?What are your keywords?

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!