Brandon Locke (Michigan State University), Jacob Friefeld, and Ashlee Anderson (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) History Harvest (http://historyharvest.unl.edu) is a collaborative, team-oriented, student-centered and community-based project that contributes to the democratization and accessibility of American history by collecting and sharing the experiences and artifacts of everyday people and local historical institutions in an open web archive. […]
Small Places Contain Worlds of Their Own: Transforming Local History into Public Scholarship
Rob Sieczkiewicz, Edward Slavishak, Marie Wagner, Rachel Baer, and Amber Peretin (Susquehanna University) In this work-in-progress session, Susquehanna University faculty, students and staff will explore how a new campus-wide Omeka program transformed a Pennsylvania history course. The faculty member will discuss the origins of the project as an exercise to change students’ perception of local history […]
Lessons from History 101: Teaching Digital Humanities at the Introductory Level in Community Colleges
Jack Norton (Normandale Community College) Digital humanities courses often sit at the top of departmental course offerings, focussed on advanced majors or graduate students. In 2014 I reoriented my survey world history two course around digital humanities projects using resources that are free to students. This fall I am reorienting my world history one course […]
In Search of Symmetry: Integrating the Library with Undergraduate DH Instruction
BUDSC15-InSearchOfSymmetryDale Askey, Jason Brodeur, Paige Morgan (McMaster University) In Winter 2015, McMaster University’s Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship offered an inaugural introduction to digital humanities course for undergraduates. Based entirely within the University Library, the course used library resources and was led by an instructional team of six library staff members with varying areas of […]