Category: Digital Literacies

  • Indigenous Pedagogies and Digital Annotations with Manifold

    Indigenous Pedagogies and Digital Annotations with Manifold

    Beginning class with one minute of mindfulness, we turned down the lights and closed our eyes. Our attention and sensory experiences refracted to different stimuli, internal and external, for a glorious 60 seconds. Then, we all went around the room to reflect on what that experience felt like. We spoke about a sense of inner […]

  • Concluding a Course with a Collaborative Public Project: Keywords for Literary Studies

    Concluding a Course with a Collaborative Public Project: Keywords for Literary Studies

    This blog describes how I organized my Introduction to Multicultural Literature course around a collaborative, public final project. Rather than a traditional final paper, the course concludes with students co-authoring a digital glossary of Keywords for Literary Studies. What follows is a lightly edited version of my remarks for the Digital Pedagogy Roundtable at MLA […]

  • Learning from Prof Walter Greason’s Real-Time Video and Social Media Classroom Innovations

    Learning from Prof Walter Greason’s Real-Time Video and Social Media Classroom Innovations

    Today, in our Progressive Pedagogy Group on hastac.org, we recognize the superb classroom and institutional innovations of Professor Walter D. Greason, Associate Professor and Dean Emeritus at Monmouth University.  His contributions to African American studies, diaspora studies, American studies–enhanced by sophisticated and ingenious use of social media, video, and other digital tools–is inestimable. There is […]

  • 3 Activities for Digital Literacy in the Writing Classroom

    3 Activities for Digital Literacy in the Writing Classroom

    “Algorithm 01” by Dimitris Ladopoulos is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The majority of my students use social media in some fashion. Some are, to some extent, aware of how algorithms collect data and use it for advertising purposes. What they often don’t realize, however, is the trap of “assumed objectivity” that algorithms exude. A […]

  • Digitial Fridays Recap: Making Meaning with Digital Tools– Practical and Inclusive Strategies

    Digitial Fridays Recap: Making Meaning with Digital Tools– Practical and Inclusive Strategies

    Initially, I conceptualized this webinar as an attempt to articulate a pedagogical move beyond the traditional paper. As an English instructor, I (Rachel Willis) am often struck by how inadequate a paper can be in terms of figuring out what students know. I have recently begun offering live grading for students, and this practice reinforced for […]

  • Farewell #HASTAC2019, Hello #HASTAC2020 and #HASTAC2022

    Farewell #HASTAC2019, Hello #HASTAC2020 and #HASTAC2022

    Thank you, #HASTAC2019 Some academic conferences are simply professional trade shows by another name. Some are gatherings of the minds. Occasionally–once or twice in an academic lifespan–one comes along that nourishes the spirit in ways that one will never forget and that, in memory, one returns to over and over, for many years to come. […]

  • Progressive Pedagogy On the Road

    Progressive Pedagogy On the Road

    Last week, we took Progressive Pedagogy on the road to two conferences in Vancouver: Digital Democracies at Simon Fraser University (SFU) and HASTAC’s Decolonizing Technologies, Reprogramming Education at the University of British Columbia (UBC).  On Thursday, May 16, Cathy N. Davidson, Erin Rose Glass, Christina Katopodis, Danica Savonick, and Siqi Tu led a workshop at SFU called, “The Classroom as […]

  • Teaching Public Writing in the Graduate Seminar

    Teaching Public Writing in the Graduate Seminar

    In Fall 2018, I attended an event at my college organized by my colleague Cori McKenzie on “Innovations in English Language Arts Teaching and Learning.” In this event, McKenzie’s graduate students presented their research projects in progress, on topics ranging from the importance of multimodal composition to teaching diverse books in the K-12 classroom. I […]

  • Intersection of Race & Disability: Equity in the Classroom

    Intersection of Race & Disability: Equity in the Classroom

    An electronic poster/lightning talk (see attached) presented on May 18th at HASTAC 2019 “Decolonizing Technologies, Reprogramming Education.” This poster addresses ways in which race and disability overlap throughout history, as well as how we can use interactive media (such as experiential learning and digital game creation) to address these systems and begin to have these […]

  • Reflecting on my HASTAC scholarship

    My HASTAC scholarship is soon coming to an end, to welcome a new cohort of passionate Digital Humanists. I wanted to reflect a bit on my own experience as a HASTAC scholar, which has ben a rich learning experience and made me more confident regarding my professional and academic interests. Interviewing Dr. T. L. Taylor, […]