digital projects discussion

Digital Projects

The Venutus A manuscript

Homer Multitext Project

What new things can you do in your discipline with digital tools?

How do we integrate students?What are the benefits for students?

Undergraduate Research• Student-faculty collaborative research• Tasks in expertise range of students• Meaningful contributions

Chris Blackwell & Tom Martin, “Technology, Collaboration, and Undergraduate Research.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 3, no. 1 (2009).

Liberal Education: Essential Learning Outcomes

• Intellectual and practical skills, like – Inquiry and analysis– Critical and creative thinking– Written and oral communication– Quantitative literacy– Information literacy– Teamwork and problem solving

• Knowledge of human cultures and the physical and natural world; • personal and social responsibility, including civic knowledge and

engagement both locally and globally; • integrative and applied learning.

• First-Year Seminars and Experiences

• Common Intellectual Experience

• Learning Communities• Writing-Intensive

Courses• Collaborative

Assignments and Projects

• Undergraduate Research

• Diversity/Global Learning

• Service Learning, Community-Based Learning

• Internships• Capstone Courses and

Projects

High Impact Practices (Kuh)

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

Increasing Expertise

Using Digital Resources

Contributing to Digital Resources

Producing Digital Resources

Students & Jobs• What employers want

– AAC&U employer survey– Pannapacker, William. “No More Digitally Challenged

Liberal-Arts Majors.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 18, 2013. http://chronicle.com/article/No-More-Digitally-Challenged/143079/.

• Teamwork• Professionalization

Group Work• Small groups• Choose one group member and come up with a

digital project for their class.• Work through the following checklist.• Report out on model, challenges, insights, etc.

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/

Thank youSt. 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