Category: Digital Literacies
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How To Give Great Feedback: The Architect Versus the Critic:
Early in my career–it was during my second or third year working in several different adjunct positions–I learned the method for giving feedback that I still use today. If you are one of the thousands of students or authors who have received feedback from me on a written dissertation, thesis, research project, article, or book […]
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Digital Storytelling for the 21st Century
[This post was originally published on the University of Rochester website for the Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Program for the Digital Humanities] Over the course of the semester the students of Professor Thomas Fleischman’s Earth, Wind, Water, Fire: An Environmental History of Everywhere class have challenged the “traditional” homework assignment. Rather than churn out a […]
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Partnerships in Advancing Digital Archival Education
Posted in https://saaers.wordpress.com/2018/03/06/partnerships-in-advancing-digital-archival-education/ on March 6, 2018 by Sohan Shah, Michael J. Kurtz, and Richard Marciano This is the fourth post in the BloggERS series on Collaborating Beyond the Archival Profession. The mission of the Digital Curation Innovation Center (DCIC) at the University of Maryland’s iSchool is to integrate archival education with research and technology. The Center […]
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What We Learned from a Decade of Digital Media and Learning
For a decade, HASTAC teams at Duke University and at the University of California Humanities Research Institute administered the Digital Media and Learning Competitions supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. MacArthur Foundation is currently celebrating its 40th anniversary by recounting 40 stories of the work it has done. I was honored […]
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Pedagogy Project 2.0 Twitter Chat!
Save the date: Pedagogy Project 2.0 Twitter Chat, March 14th from 3-4pm EST Hi Everyone! Recently, a few scholars an I embarked on organizing a Twitter chat. Despite my usual reluctance to do anything other than lurk and like on Twitter, I decided to broaden my horizons and face the unknown. During my past few months […]
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Interview with Dean Rehberger on the “Enslaved: People of the Historic Slave Trade” Project
Michigan State University is embarking on a grand new adventure. Dean Rehberger, the director of Matrix: The Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences in the College of Social Sciences at Michigan State University is also the principal investigator on Enslaved: The People of the Historic Slave Trade, a new initiative to facilitate research on […]
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Going Public: How and Why to Develop a Digital Scholarly Identity
On Sunday, January 7, 2018, Lisa Marie Rhody, Danica Savonick, Lisa Tagliaferri, and Katina Rogers gave a presentation on “Going Public: How and Why to Develop a Digital Scholarly Identity” at the Modern Language Association Convention in New York, NY. Abstract: Establishing a meaningful digital identity is essential to managing one’s scholarly and professional reputation. This workshop addresses […]
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An Assessment of the Digital Media and Learning Competition
Increasing availability and accessibility of digital media have changed the ways in which young people learn, socialize, play, and engage in civic life. Seeking to understand how learning environments and institutions should transform to respond to these changes, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation launched the Digital Media and Learning (DML) Initiative in […]
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Digital History in Florida
Florida Frontiers is the weekly multimedia program for the Florida Historical Society. During HASTAC 2017 Dr. Ben Brokemarkle, the executive director of the FHS and host of Florida Frontier did a series of interviews with attendees from Florida institutions at HASTAC. Those interviews provide a great overview of some of the digital activities happening in Florida. […]
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What I Wish I Knew When I Started Doing Active Learning
For well over a decade, I’ve been studying the science of learning, cognitive neuroscience, research on memory, and studies of pedagogy as well as reading everything I can get my hands on having to do with techniques and methods for meaningful, engaged classrooms. I’m constantly learning, always trying new things. Here are things I wish […]