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  • New Orleans in 12 Movements

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    Emily Sherwood

    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.…

  • Pennsylvania Health Atlas/RESC098 ‘The Future is Now’

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    Emily Sherwood

    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…

  • Authoritarianism and Development: A Spatial Analysis of Uganda by Sub-County

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    Emily Sherwood

    John Doces and Erik Heinemann (Bucknell University) In Africa, a common theme in development is that authoritarianism has been detrimental to development. In particular, arguments about the nature of this relationship focus on the role of the African “Big Man” and the effect of patronage politics viewing the situation as one in which people connected…

  • Performing Collaborative Scholarship

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    Emily Sherwood

    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…

  • Environmental Activism in Central PA

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    Emily Sherwood

    Amanda Wooden, Nicole Bakeman, and Jaclyn Tules (Bucknell University) Over the past five years, Bucknell University has made a strategic investment in integrating GIS and digital scholarship across the undergraduate curriculum in teaching and research.  We believe that applying GIS and digital scholarship methods broadens and deepens the learning experience for faculty and students alike…

  • Using Scalar to Create Dynamic Textbooks

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    Emily Sherwood

    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…

  • Student-Based Digital Data Collection in Archaeological Field Schools

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    Emily Sherwood

    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…

  • The Digital Opportunities: Train Students for Historical Research in the Digital Age

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    Emily Sherwood

    Song Chen (Bucknell University) To train students for research is a challenge. It is more so in the field of non-Western history because of the additional language barriers. The conventional answer to this challenge is translation. Since the late nineteenth century, missionaries and scholars have been translating classical works from Chinese intellectual and literary traditions.…

  • Public Digital Scholarship: Engaging Faculty in Student Research

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    Emily Sherwood

    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…

  • Mapping the Susquehanna Valley

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    Emily Sherwood

    Katherine Faull, Henry Stann, and Alexa Gorski (Bucknell University) This summer our research team has created a database of historically significant locations and events to Native Americans within a five-mile corridor along the West Branch of the Susquehanna River between the years of 1650-1800. This time frame is also referred to as the pre-contact and…

  • Using Remote Sensing and GIS for South Sudan Biodiversity Conservation Efforts

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    Emily Sherwood

    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…

  • Design Mobility: Architects with iPads

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    Emily Sherwood

    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…

  • Locating Lutheranism in the American Religious Landscape: 19th Century Norwegian Congregations in MN

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    Emily Sherwood

    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.…

  • Collaborative Annotations: Using Annotation Studio to Foster Writing and Thinking in a Learning Community

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    Emily Sherwood

    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…

  • Uncovering Information Literacy Practices to Promote Collaborative digital Scholarship

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    Emily Sherwood

    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…

  • “The Imaginary Museum”: A Digital Approach to the Art History Classroom

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    Emily Sherwood

    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…

  • Modern Literacy, Art, and Shared Knowledge Building: Exploring the Novel Learning Affordances of Mobile, Social, and Interactive Art Collections

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    Emily Sherwood

    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…

  • Making A Perfect Monster––Together

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    Emily Sherwood

    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…

  • Advancing Research, Learning and Digital Collection Building in the College with Collaboration and Partnership

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    Emily Sherwood

    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…