Category: Digital Literacies
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Thoughts on Teaching Digital Public History
This semester I taught a class on digital public history. I designed the class based on what I wish I learned in college for my career in public history. Small assignments included a grant, mission statement, project pitch, exhibit label, and a budget. Our big assignment was a collaborative digital history project. As I was…
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New media literacy guide helps students and educators navigate the landscape of fake news and disinformation
Facet Publishing announce the publication of Media Smart: Lessons, Tips and Strategies for Librarians, Classroom Instructors and other Information Professionals Information has become one of the most crucial commodities in today’s world. From multinational corporations to single individuals, we all make critical decisions based on the information available to us. In this digital age, where…
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Scholar Spotlight: Kristen Corless
If you’d like to follow my research and educational journey, feel free to follow me on Twitter! Why did you apply to HASTAC? When I first learned about HASTAC, I knew almost immediately that it would help me attain the resources and community I needed for a very lofty goal I have! I’ve always wanted…
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Scholar Spotlight: Galen Bunting
1. Why did you apply to HASTAC? I was interested in working more closely with methods of digital literacy in the classroom, and since classes form a sort of community, I wanted to be involved with others who were experimenting with the digital humanities in their work, since intellectual cross-pollination is so integral to my…
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New book explores the critical role of school libraries in improving student literacy and emotional welfare
New book explores the critical role of school libraries in improving student literacy and emotional welfare Facet Publishing announce the publication of School Libraries Supporting Literacy and Wellbeing Published today, Dr Margaret K Merga’s new book School Libraries Supporting Literacy and Wellbeing gives much-needed consideration to the role that school libraries and their staff play…
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Mapping Pedagogies
Can you teach something you essentially created? As a Graduate student at Emory University I developed my own digital mapping methodology for my research. I introduce data visualization into literary analysis to examine how Francophone women writers present radically subversive narratives of colonized spaces in Indochina, West Africa, and the Americas. During my graduate career, I received great…
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Digital Projects and Student Engagement in the Era of COVID-19
Anyone teaching this year knows how challenging it continues to be in the era of COVID-19. Wasn’t 2020-2021 supposed to be the most difficult year for educators?! Throughout most of the pandemic, I’ve taught World Studies at the secondary level. I’ve observed students struggling to adjust to unfamiliar structures, where they seem unsure about how…
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Process as Digital Pedagogy
In the fall of 2021, our HASTAC cohort merged with another Emory digital scholarship initiative, the digital dissertation fellowship. Though our missions differ slightly (HASTAC is more concerned with public-facing scholarship while digital dissertation fellows are building a digital component to their dissertation) our goals are the same: integrating digital methods and tools into humanities…
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“I really don’t care, do u:” Performances of Care and Conjuring American Exceptionalism
On June 21st, 2018, Melania Trump boarded a plane to visit an immigration detention center in Texas holding immigrant children who were separated from their families. Melania Trump’s supposed reason for the visit was to see the facilities for herself after she had lobbied her husband, then President Donald Trump, to change his policy on…
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Visualizing Comics Using Wikidata
I’m mindful that the summer is time for “academic” rest. This is to say, a lot of work is done that could not be done during the academic year. However, it is also a time to call attention to those meaningful partnerships and collaborations that made the year worthwhile. I’m especially pleased that the Graphic…