Author: Emily Sherwood
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ePortfolio at Sweet Briar: Engaging / Assessing / Exploring
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Julie Kane (Sweet Briar College) At Sweet Briar, we are beginning our second year of full rollout with our ePortfolio platform, Digication. We first ran a small pilot, capped at ~300, and started in earnest last year, requiring all incoming students to use ePortfolio as they arrived. I ask every incoming student to create her…
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Learning as Playing: an Interactive Archive of 17th- to 19th-Century Metamorphic Children’s Books
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Sandra Stelts, Linda Friend, Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, and Carlos Rosas (Penn State University) We propose to demonstrate the genesis of an animated, interactive, Web-based archive of selected 17th- to 19th-century moveable books by and for children on the theme of transformation (http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/digital/flapbooks.html or http://sites.psu.edu/play/). These rare, fragile, little-documented metamorphic books, combining aspects of books, prints, and…
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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)…
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Collaboration, Not Chaos: Managing Collaborative Project Work
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Mike Zarafonetis and Laurie Allen (Haverford College) The flexibility and small size of the liberal arts college library naturally leads to collaboration across institutional lines, and even more so in the creation of digital scholarship. This summer, Haverford College Libraries undertook multiple cross-departmental and institutional digital projects, each with its own challenges. Three of these…
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Collaboration and Outreach through the Center for Digital Scholarship at the University of Notre Dame
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Matthew Sisk and Alexander Papson (University of Notre Dame) Library-based digital scholarship centers are increasingly seen as a way to foster collaboration across the university and make new digital tools available for teaching and research. In September of 2013, the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) was launched in the Hesburgh Library at the University of…
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Long-Distance Dedication: Consortial Collaboration at Scale
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Jacob Heil (The Five Colleges of Ohio) In the libraries of the Five Colleges of Ohio, a project-centered Mellon grant has given the consortium an opportunity to encourage the development of faculty-led, digital, pedagogical projects. Building on an initiative that was focused on digital collections, this latest grant is more focused on tying digital methodologies…
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Imagining the Global: Digital Field Scholarship on Global Themes in the Northwest Five Consortium
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Jim Proctor (Lewis & Clark College) Though liberal arts colleges are often viewed as an escape from the world, Northwest Five Consortium (NW5C) students routinely engage in local, regional, and international field sites, and our institutions pride themselves on how these experiences help cultivate global leaders. Yet the global is a challenging realm, arguably not…
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Foreign Language Flipped Classrooms – Scaffolding Grammar Knowledge Anytime, Anywhere
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Ching-Hsuan Wu (Ohio Wesleyan University) The presentation introduces a collaborative pedagogical project that aims to improve and promote the digitalized interface of teaching and learning in studies of foreign languages for liberal arts colleges through the concept of the flipped classroom. The goal of the project is to develop a digital collection of self-directed grammar…
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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…
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An Inquiry-Driven Classroom: Letting the Students Lead the Way
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Paul Bond (University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown) I would like to present on a collaborative teaching relationship between a professor/educational technologist and an instructional librarian at separate institutions, the courses that have come out of it, and some of the outcomes we have seen. This was a collaboration between an online instructor/librarian, in-class instructor and in-class students…
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Bringing Bank Street’s Progressive Pedagogy to iTunes U: A Collaborative Effort Across the College
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Steven Goss and Lindsey Wyckoff (Bank Street College of Education) This project is a collaboration between the Bank Street College Archives, Online Programs, and faculty members of The Graduate School of Education and The School for Children to produce and deliver educational resources for classroom teaching and learning. This work started as an institutional mini-grant…
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Building Communities of Collaborators at Our Marathon: The Boston Bombing Digital Archive
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Alicia Peaker (Middlebury College) and Joanne DeCaro (Northeastern University) In May 2013, students and faculty members at Northeastern University began work on Our Marathon: The Boston Bombing Digital Archive (www.northeastern.edu/marathon), a digital humanities project built with Omeka. Motivated by the Boston community’s interest in sharing stories about the 2013 Boston marathon bombings, Our Marathon is…
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Archiving Hindu Gaya: Temples, Shrines and Images of a Sacred Center in India
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Abhishek Amar and Lauren Scutt (Hamilton College) The Sacred Centers in India project, aimed at creating a digital archive, began in April 2013 at the Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI) at Hamilton College. This project seeks to examine the multiple layers of the history of 55 important shrines within the Hindu pilgrimage city of Gaya (known…
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A Database of One’s Own: A Faculty/Student Project in Digital Literary Analysis
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Constance Walker and Erin Winter (Carleton College) How can big data and digital humanities tools expand our knowledge of literary history and literary texts? My current research explores this important question by using such tools to study a little-studied or known set of lyric poems about the arts by British women writers, written between 1660-1900.…
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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…