digital projects discussion
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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