Category: New Approaches to Digital Scholarship in the Classroom

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…