• 09. Collaborative Creation: Annotated Bibliography

    09. Collaborative Creation: Annotated Bibliography

    Collaborative Pedagogy: The Annotated Bibliography In 2014, a group of HASTAC scholars collaboratively created The Pedagogy Project, a series of blog posts, which offer examples of digital or collaborative projects that instructors can implement into their courses. These projects vary in length and complexity, so instructors can browse by category to find ideas for single…

  • Announcing Structuring Equality: A Handbook for Student-Centered Learning and Teaching Practices

    Announcing Structuring Equality: A Handbook for Student-Centered Learning and Teaching Practices

    Written by The Graduate Center Learning Collective www.hastac.org/structuring-equality Arinn Amer, Zebulah Baldwin, Joshua Belknap, Erica Campbell, Cathy N. Davidson, Michael Druffel, Iris Finkel, Lisa Hirschfield, Nicky Hutchins, Kelly Lerash, Danica Savonick ​Edited by Hilarie Ashton.  CUNY Undergraduate Student Editors: Sujoy Bhowmik, David Brandt, Cherishe Cumma, Cassandra Castelant, Yelena Dzhanova, Brenell Harrison, Hurriya Hassan Cover: Estefany…

  • Musings on the News and on Work II (plus Memory and Energy)

    Last time I wrote here was before the inauguration (small I), and I don’t have to say whose. And I won’t. I am one who believes that saying the name of a person means that you are remembering and honoring them, and so I won’t say his name. It’s harder to remember not to write…

  • History Detective

    History Detective

    I cannot count how many times I have told people I study history and they have replied “I wasn’t good at history, I am terrible at remembering dates.” Sometimes I laugh this answer off, depending on how engaged I feel like getting in a conversation. And sometimes this reply leads to robust discussions about history…

  • 16. Revisiting the Pedagogy Project and Re-imagining Revision

    16. Revisiting the Pedagogy Project and Re-imagining Revision

    “Re-imagining Revision: The Digital Essay” In 2014, a group of HASTAC scholars collaboratively created The Pedagogy Project, a series of blog posts, which offer examples of digital or collaborative projects that instructors can implement into their courses. These projects vary in length and complexity, so instructors can browse by category to find ideas for single…

  • Marine biology, astronomy, and the interconnected of the two areas

    Sky, Water, Earth is a joint project between the University of British Columbia, the Vancouver Space Centre, and the Vancouver Aquarium. The playlists touch on 4 themes, which are 1) Extreme Environments: Exploring marine and terrestrial extreme environments and their roles as analogues for space-based research and exploration; 2) Water: Maintaining a healthy water system…

  • How others respond to me as a foreigner

    You can be a foreigner in many ways. You don’t need to cross the Atlantic Ocean to become an outsider. In my personal experience I was a stranger many time. Sometime it has happened in my country too. The first time I moved from my small village to Rome. The second time I transferred from…

  • Designing Playlists for Learning with DML 6 Grantees

    Designing Playlists for Learning with DML 6 Grantees

    How do playlists help guide learners toward mastery? How do we map the learning pathways associated with the development of expertise and learner identities? Our DML 6 Playlists for Learning grantees are taking on these questions, and others, as they adapt their learning content to work in playlist format on the LRNG.org platform, complete with…

  • How Should We Transcribe?

    How Should We Transcribe?

    Transcription is a very useful tool. When something is hand-written, or printed badly, someone, or a machine can take the text and usually use a program like Microsoft Word to type the text in the previous format into a ready to read and search document.  Transcription seems simple. Something is on the page, that same thing…

  • DesignLaunch – A Design Education Playlist

    DesignLaunch – A Design Education Playlist

    DiscoverDesign.org is a free digital platform that enables students nationwide to learn about architecture and design while completing design challenges and receiving feedback from teachers and professionals in the field. Achievements on the platform lead to skills development and digital badges. With over 8,000 registered users nationally, including 201 registered architecture and design professionals, DiscoverDesign…