Category: #BUDSC14
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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…