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New Orleans in 12 Movements

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Brian Gockley and David Gockley (Bucknell University) In summer 2012, Bucknell’s instructional technology group began working with Profs. Kevin Gilmore (Civil Engineering), Barry Long (Music) and Brian Gockley (Teaching & Learning Center) on developing materials for the new Integrated Perspectives (IP) course, ‘New Orleans in 12 Movements,’ offered for the first time in summer 2014. […]

Old Records, New Questions, New Collaborations: The Easton Library Company Database at Lafayette College

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Chris Phillips, Eric Luhrs and Alena Principato (Lafayette) In 2010 Phillips and Luhrs began work on a database of borrowing records from the Easton Library Company, which operated from 1811 to 1862. With fifty years of records to transcribe and analyze, and little collective experience developing such a library history project, they planned the database […]

Pennsylvania Health Atlas/RESC098 ‘The Future is Now’

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Amy Wolaver, Jon Walls, Mike McGowan, and Noelle Watters (Bucknell University) Healthcare costs are higher in the United States than any other country and are rising faster than all other countries. A primary influence on costs in the US are hospitalizations. Identifying ways to reduce the number of hospitalizations could reduce the cost of healthcare […]

Performing Collaborative Scholarship

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Christopher P. Long is Associate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Education and Professor of Philosophy and Classics in the College of the Liberal Arts at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of an enhanced digital book, Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading (Cambridge, 2014), and two other monographs, Aristotle […]

A Proper Motion Census of Ophiuchus

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Damon Frezza and Katelyn Allers (Bucknell University) How are stars born? One of the least understood stages in a star’s evolution is its formation. In order to study star formation we must look deep into dense clouds of dust and gas called nebulae. One such nebula is Rho Ophiuchus and, at a distance of 130 […]

Public Digital Scholarship: Engaging Faculty in Student Research

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Benjamin Rowles, Adam Haley and Chris Long (Penn State) In the context of modern technologies, “public” and “digital” scholarship are inextricably linked. The possibilities for openness offered by digital tools increase the pressure to make research more accessible, posing questions about the incentives for and the potential scope of public digital scholarship and research. For […]

Researching Out Loud: Public Scholarship as a Process of Publishing Before and After Publishing

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Zeynep Tufekci is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a faculty associate at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Zeynep’s work revolves around the intersection of technology and society. She was previously a fellow at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University and she taught […]

St. Bonaventure Cemetery: Introducing History Students to GIS

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Phillip Payne, Dennis Frank, Jason Damon, and Michael Specht (St. Bonaventure University) During the Spring 2014 semester students enrolled in History 419: Digital History and Archival Practices built a map of St. Bonaventure Cemetery using geographic information systems technology (GIS). Students used archival materials and created a map that will be useful to the community. […]

Student-Based Digital Data Collection in Archaeological Field Schools

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Benjamin Carter and Timothy Clarke (Muhlenberg College) Archaeological field schools pose distinct challenges for data collection. First and foremost, because archaeology is context dependent, the process is inherently destructive; the removal of objects from the earth (i.e., excavation) destroys their contextual data which is only preserved through accurate recording. Therefore, systems must be developed that […]

Teaching Presence on the Rise: Engaging Undergraduate Students in Online Courses

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Kim Lacey and James Bowers (Saginaw Valley State) Online learning has grown dramatically over the past few years and has become an increasing part of most higher education institutions’ overall strategy. However, due to the assumed lack of interaction and low engagement within online learning environments, hesitation over the quality of digital content delivery is […]

Using Remote Sensing and GIS for South Sudan Biodiversity Conservation Efforts

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Laura A. Kurpiers and DeeAnn M. Reeder (Bucknell University) South Sudan, a country rich in biodiversity, is ecologically unique because it is a meeting point for the floras and faunas of East and West Africa. However, little research and conservation efforts have been placed here because of a long history of civil war lasting from […]

Uncovering Information Literacy Practices to Promote Collaborative digital Scholarship

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Jennifer Jarson and Lora Taub-Pervizpour (Muhlenberg College) We present a collaboration between library and faculty in New Information Technologies, an introductory course that challenges students to think critically about information technologies and reflect on their identities as citizens of a global information society. In Spring 2014, student teams investigated global internet censorship and produced short […]

Undergraduate Digital Scholarship: CLASS as a Model for Digital Humanities Scholarship in the Liberal Arts

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Janet Thomas Simons, Gregory Lord and Kerri Grimaldi (Hamilton College) Culture, Liberal Arts, and Society Scholars (CLASS) is an undergraduate research internship program in the digital humanities awarded to students through Hamilton College’s Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi). CLASS is based on three-broad areas of scholarly inquiry and their intersection with digital technologies: 1) Culture, 2) […]

Using Scalar to Create Dynamic Textbooks

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Vimala C. Pasupathi (Hofstra University) In this digital poster, I will share Writing With Substance, an anti-textbook of sorts that I wrote using the platform Scalar. My interest in writing an electronic textbook for my First-Year Writing course was inspired in part by my growing desire to flee the textbook industry, whose profits and practices had […]