Author: Emily Sherwood
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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…
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Design Mobility: Architects with iPads
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Madis Pihlak (Penn State University) A Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 class was taught at Penn State Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture using iPads based on the study of design mobility. The student body was almost entirely made up of fifth year architecture students. The seminar format was broad ranging and dealt with…
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Locating Lutheranism in the American Religious Landscape: 19th Century Norwegian Congregations in MN
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L. DeAne Lagerquist and Nora Uhrich (St. Olaf College) Locating Lutheranism began with a persistent question, an old book, and the potential of new technology. What might be learned about Norwegian-American Lutherans by paying attention to the names they gave their congregations? Could digital tools be used to analyze and interpret the data O. M.…
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Collaborative Annotations: Using Annotation Studio to Foster Writing and Thinking in a Learning Community
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Ethna Lay (Hofstra University) My students’ report real success using MIT’s Annotation Studio, working with it as solo commentators or in the sharing of group work. Strong annotation skills support reading, writing, and critical thinking, especially when students have the opportunity to annotate collectively, a digital collaboration made possible by Annotation Studio. What is also…
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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…
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“The Imaginary Museum”: A Digital Approach to the Art History Classroom
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Martha Hollander (Hofstra University) This is a proposal for a brief presentation or lightning talk about ways in which digital technology has transformed my art history students from passive note-takers into collaborators, with one another and with me. Teachers of art have the challenge of educating students about physical objects that generally aren’t accessible except…
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Modern Literacy, Art, and Shared Knowledge Building: Exploring the Novel Learning Affordances of Mobile, Social, and Interactive Art Collections
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Jeff Kissinger and Ena Heller (Rollins College) Cornell curators and subject mater experts Ena Heller and Amy Gaplin have teamed up with learning futurist Jeff Kissinger to engage students to forge their own authentic connections within art, its historical conext, and as a pedagogical framework for their liberal arts experience at Rollins College. Specifically, the…
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Making A Perfect Monster––Together
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Vimala Pasupathi (Hofstra University) This paper will discuss my experience collaborating with special collections librarians at two institutions (my university and the New York Public Library) and with the students enrolled in a freshman seminar called “Reading Literature in the Digital Age.” My course aims to show students how the “future” of reading allows us…
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Advancing Research, Learning and Digital Collection Building in the College with Collaboration and Partnership
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Sabra Statham, Eric Novotny and Katie Falvo (Penn State University) Collaborative projects can be an excellent way for Universities to create research opportunities and support student learning. The People’s Contest Civil War Era Digital Archiving Project is a partnership between the Penn State Libraries and the Richards Civil War Center. The project pairs librarians with…
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Between Public History and Geohistory: Teaching From, and About, Lost Urban Landscapes
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Linda Aleci (Franklin & Marshall College) This paper describes “Curating the City”, an experimental undergraduate seminar, and nascent digital humanities project, at Franklin & Marshall College. The project is undertaken in collaboration with the Phillips Museum of Art, the Lancaster County Historical Society, a Lancaster-based urban planning firm, and a cohort of users active on…
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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.…
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Harrisburg’s City Beautiful Movement: Mapping the Growth and Transformation of the Pennsylvania State Capital
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David Pettegrew, Jeff Erikson, Rachel Carey, and Rachel Morris (Messiah College), Albert Sarvis and Dan Stolyarov (Harrisburg University of Science and Technology) In spring 2014, faculty and students from Messiah College and Harrisburg University of Science and Technology launched a new digital initiative to document the rapid growth and transformation of Harrisburg through its City…
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Digital Rome: Researching and Teaching Ancient Roman Urbanism with Student-Created 3D Visualizations
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Thomas Morton (Swarthmore College) Over 675 ancient Roman municipal entities are known from across North Africa; however, most of the scholarship is in French, German, and Italian and thus out of reach for most students. The question becomes, how does one engage students with the innovative architecture and urbanism that occurred in this part of…
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Analog Library Books and Digital Scholarly Collaboration
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Kyle Roberts and Evan Thompson (Loyola U of Chicago) Historic library books have proven a fruitful site for digital scholarly collaboration at Loyola University Chicago. The Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project (http://jesuitlibrariesprovenanceproject.com/) was launched in March 2014 to bring together students, curators, and faculty to uncover the history of the acquisition and use of Loyola’s original…
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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…
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Expanding Public Access to Knowledge: Introducing the DPLA
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Annie Johnson (Lehigh University) The Digital Public Library of America is a unique content portal designed for students, teachers, scholars, and the public. It provides free access to a wide variety of digital materials from a national network of libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage institutions. The idea behind the project is simple: although many…
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Anvil Academic: Stories from the front lines of evaluating born digital scholarship
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Mike Roy (Middlebury College) and Charles Henry (CLIR) In the electronically networked world of contemporary scholarship, the traditional role of the publisher as gatekeeper and paid distributor of scholarly argument is no longer tenable. Yet the editorial services a publisher provides to authors and the filtering service it provides to readers and promotion-and-tenure committees are…
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The Masquerade Project
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Brittany Allen and Kyle Raudensky (Bucknell University) The Masquerade Project is a an educational video game developed by Professor Ghislaine McDayter in collaboration with Brittany Allen and Kyle Raudensky. The concept of the game is create an immersive environment in which players are transported to an 18th-century masquerade ball, and through that experience learn about…
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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…
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Designing Collaboration and Pedagogy into a Network for Digital Scholarship and Public Deliberation
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Mark Fisher, Chris Long, Andre Avilez, and Kris Klotz (Penn State University), Dean Rehberger and Bill Hart-Davidson (Michigan State University) The Public Philosophy Journal (PPJ) is designed to be an open space for community discourse, deliberation, and action that is informed by scholarly standards while also being responsive to the interests of diverse publics. Among…