Author: Emily Sherwood
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Building (Digital) Bridges: A Collaboration between Research and Teaching-Centered Institutions
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Christina Boyles (University of Iowa) While many digital humanities projects involve collaboration, few have combined the efforts of large research institutions and small liberal arts colleges. With the assistance of the Mellon Foundation, however, the University of Iowa and Grinnell College have established such a partnership, seeking “to weave the digital humanities more deeply and…
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A New Kind of Librarianship: Collaboratively Developing a New Approach to Library/STEM Digital Scholarship Initiatives
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Molly Olney-Zide and Joshua Zide (University of Delaware) In this interactive presentation/discussion, we will discuss our recently-launched pilot project, which is a collaboration between the University of Delaware Library and the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Department. The project, led by Discovery Services Librarian Molly Olney-Zide, focuses on strengthening relationships between the Library and STEM…
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Complicate, Situate, Engage: Digital Scholarship and Environmental Innovation
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Elizabeth Safran (Lewis & Clark College) The Environmental Studies (ENVS) Program at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon has become known for its innovative approach to environmental scholarship. One way of demarcating this innovative approach is that we deliberately complicate environmental issues, helping students learn to ask the hard questions others in the environmental…
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Who’s Listening? Creating Intentional Publics
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Carey Sargent and Christopher Gilman (Occidental College) When teachers and instructional designers leverage digital platforms to make undergraduate students write (or visualize) for “the public,” who is the public that students imagine, and to what pedagogical effects? We present a brief case study of how students have used Global Crossroads*, a custom-built media sharing and…
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Bigger than the Sum of its Parts: A Collaborative Conference Structure and Student Empowerment to Engage
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Donnie Sendelbach (DePauw University), Jacob Heil (Five Colleges of Ohio), Gregory Lord (Hamilton College), and Taylor Mills (Hope College) Small, residential campuses provide an environment for intensive undergraduate-faculty research, albeit usually based on the faculty member’s work with the student undertaking a branch of it. How do we create the scaffolding for students to take…
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Digitizing Governance in Homestead and West Homestead, PA
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Sabina Deitrick and Abigael Wolensky (University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs) Over the digital age, civic movements and technological processes have advanced the use of information in governments and communities. At the end of the 20th century, democratizing data became a movement of information transparency, dedicated to making public data public,…
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Involving Students in Community Based Mapping Projects at the University of Notre Dame
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Matthew Sisk (University of Notre Dame) Community-Based Research is a collaborative approach to research where academic researchers, community members, and organizations are involved in the development, implementation and dissemination of research. Such projects are often designed to promote positive change in particular areas of the community. Here we report on a two-year old community-based research…
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Lessons Learned: Engaging Online Students in Effective Engaged Scholarship Experiences
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Emily Baxter (The Pennsylvania State University) Penn State defines engagement as, “…the scholarship of teaching, research, and creative accomplishment, as well as service that involves citizens and the University working in partnership to create and apply knowledge that addresses pressing societal issues and strengthens civic responsibility and democracy through mutually beneficial relationships. In the broadest…
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Scaling-up the Classroom: Using Digital Video Essays to Engage Broader Publics
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Melissa Rock (State University of New York at New Paltz) Over the past few years I have worked closely with instructional technology staff at various institutions to create progressive multi-media final projects that challenge students to think creatively about how and for what purposes they labor to frame, package and share their scholarly research. The…
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Community Video: The Shamokin Fire History Museum Experience
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Carl Milofsky and Brianna Derr (Bucknell University) In community video academics engage members of a community using ethnographic research methods and then develop projects jointly that address a community need and also express meaningful aspects of the local community’s culture using the medium of video. A partnership has been developed between Bucknell University and the…
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Using Digital Storytelling To Bridge the Town-Gown Divide: Creating Narratives with and for Community Members of Bethlehem’s South Side
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Mary Foltz, David Fine, Sarah Stanlick, Juan Palacio Moreno, Elijah Ohrt, and Meg Kelly (Lehigh University) During the summer of 2015, a group of Lehigh University undergraduate students designed a digital story-telling project that invited community members to narrate stories about the city in which the University is situated. With a specific focus upon countering…
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Text Encoding with Marie de France
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Mackenzie Brooks, Stephen McCormick, and Sarah Schaffer (Washington and Lee University) In this collaborative presentation, a French professor, a Digital Humanities librarian, and an undergraduate French minor from Washington and Lee University will speak about their experience combining two courses, an advanced French literature course with a one-credit Digital Humanities lab (DH Studio). In the…
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A Digital Archive of ABC Books
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Ben Johnston (Princeton University) Arising from a small summer curricular innovation grant from Princeton University’s Center for Digital Humanities, the ABCBooks project showcases a successful collaboration between faculty, the Library, and technologists at the University. This digital archive of graphically-rich, historic ABC books culled from the University’s Cotsen Children’s Library serves as an online archive…
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Coincidental Collaborations: Bridging Communities of Practice on the Liberal Arts Campus
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Stephen Flynn, William Rial, and Sofia Visa (College of Wooster) This presentation offers perspectives from the College of Wooster’s Computer Science and Library faculties on the development of a project that will ultimately result in digital editions of Madeleine de Scudéry’s series of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century _Conversations_. French Professor Laura Burch, after teaching from PDF…
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The History Harvest: Undergraduate Engagement with Local Community Histories
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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.…
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Small Places Contain Worlds of Their Own: Transforming Local History into Public Scholarship
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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…
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Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center: An Interactive Site for Research and Teaching
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Don Sailer, Katie Clark, Frank Vitale, and Rachel Krutchen (Dickinson College) The Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879-1918), the first government-run off-reservation boarding school in the U.S., is a major site of memory for many Native peoples, as well as a source of research and study for descendants, students, and scholars in the U.S. and abroad. The…
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Improving Digital and Multi-Modal Literacies of Museum Professionals-in-Training
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Juilee Decker (Rochester Institute of Technology) Since Fall 2014, students enrolled in three undergraduate museum studies courses at Rochester Institute of Technology have collaborated on multiple museum studies/public history projects that have been designed to improve digital and multi-modal literacies. In each learning environment, students have participated in experiences extending beyond the classroom that have…
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Lessons from History 101: Teaching Digital Humanities at the Introductory Level in Community Colleges
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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…
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In Search of Symmetry: Integrating the Library with Undergraduate DH Instruction
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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…