Category: Pedagogy
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A Collaborative Podcast Project
Starting in 2017, the Africa and African-American Studies Program and the Department of History at Rollins College have been working with the Public History program at the University of Central Florida and the Association to Preserve Eatonville Community (P.E.C.) to produce Every Tongue Got to Confess podcast. The Confess podcast was inspired by the Communities […]
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Recap: MLA Presidential Plenary on States of Insecurity
Today, I attended the presidential plenary at the MLA Convention, “States of Insecurity,” moderated by Diana Taylor (New York University). We were promised a plenary that addressed how “[t]he academy functions in and contributes to the ideological, economic, and political struggles of our time. On this panel, scholars, advocates, and public intellectuals point to strategies and coalitions […]
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Boundary Work and Digital Humanities: An Interview with Julie Thompson Klein
Julie Thompson Klein is Professor of Humanities Emerita in the English Department and former Faculty Fellow for Interdisciplinary Development in the Division of Research at Wayne State University (USA). She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Oregon, and is past president of the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS), and is a former […]
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Okay, But Did It Work? — A Reflection on Consent-Based Participation Practice
Last term, as a pilot faculty member with the Designing for All project at LaGuardia Community College, I joined my colleagues in creating a low-stakes assignment for a course that I hoped would increase access to my classroom. I have publicly outlined the parameters of this “low-stakes” activity, but in brief, I was teaching HUT […]
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Recap: A Tool Kit for Doctoral Student Career Planning
At this year’s MLA conference, I attended a Connected Academics Initiative event on “Doctoral Student Career Planning.” It turned out the event was quite different from what I had imagined it to be. From the description, I thought that it would be more geared towards doctoral students, but the target group was definitely faculty and advisors […]
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Three Easy Steps To Make the Dullest Business Meeting into an Engaged, Active, Effective Experience (Really!)
Before I became the first Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies at my university (or at any university) in 1998, I took a number of management courses and workshops. After all, my job was to do what had not been done before, to lead the creation of programs across the “silos” of the university with different […]
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10 (Even More Basic) Things We Did With Laptops In Class Instead of Banning Them
In a quite beautiful response to the recent New York Times op ed about why laptops should be “banned” in every classroom, Mark Sample, who teaches “Introduction to Digital Studies,” compiled a list of “Ten Things We Did With Laptops In Class Instead of Banning Them.” I urge you to go to his blog and […]
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Shake It Until You Make It ‘How To’ Video
For our final project, LLG1 decided to create a video describing how to make three delicious cocktails at an ugly sweater party. Melanie, with her stylish sweater, introduces us to the video; Daniel in his wife’s grandmother’s skin-tight cardigan teaches us how to make three distinct drinks; and Rachel concludes the video by reviewing important […]
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Personal Reflection Piece
Our LLG group produced “Shake It Until You Make It,” a ‘How To’ video on creating the perfect ugly sweater and cocktail party. Our idea started as a very broad and all-encompassing ‘How To Throw a Holiday Party.’ After telling my wife our exciting idea, she seemed less enthusiastic. My […]
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Creating a DH/DS assignment for students
Faculty at the University of Miami have been using assignments based on ArcGIS StoryMaps, a digital mapping platform, in their pedagogy. Below, I am going to discuss some aspects of adding a digital assignment into a humanities course, some of which I hope will be relevant to those new to Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship practice in […]