Have you seen the Modern Language Association’s new Evaluation Wiki? It’s “an ongoing project initiated by the MLA Committee on Information Technology (CIT) as a way for the academic community to develop, gather, and share materials about the evaluation of work in digital media for purposes of tenure and promotion.” One of the suggested questions […]
Sessions and Ideas
Digital Literacy Across the Curriculum: Is it desirable? Is it possible?
December 11, 2009
I spent a few years as a graduate fellow in a Writing Across the Curriculum program, and in my current full-time position as an instructional technologist I continue to collaborate frequently with WAC. In the time I’ve spent in close contact with the WAC program, I’ve come to find great value in some of the […]
Research with Zotero
December 11, 2009
I have been using the Zotero plug-in to Firefox, developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, as my primary computer tool in my dissertation work at The Ohio State University. My research is about quality and its meanings in distance education at colleges and universities. The study uses qualitative […]
Utilizing the Digital Humanities in the Urban Classroom
December 10, 2009
In the last two years I have incorporated a variety of concepts and ideas into my urban classroom in Cleveland in a unique manner. Traditional historical scholarship, historical thinking, 2.0 digi-mocracy, social networking sites, primary source investigation, diy styled methodology, dialectics, and engaged historical learning are amongst the tools utilized. I have recently written about […]
Civic Engagement & Digital Humanities
December 9, 2009
In a recent report, “the edgeless university: why higher education must embrace technology” author Peter Bradwell compares universities to Robert Lang’s study of sprawling urban areas that produce “cities in function . . . but not in form.” Bradwell locates technology at the heart of the edgeless sprawl of higher education: The internet, social networks, […]
72nd OVI Project
December 8, 2009
The 72nd OVI Project is an ongoing development that allows my AP US History students and me to pool our skills to produce original historical research easily available to the learning community. We are building a webpage dedicated to the history of the 72nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry which fought in the Civil War. Using primary […]
Digital Video Scholarship
December 1, 2009
In February 2005, three former employees of Paypal created YouTube. The first video was available on the site on April 23, 2005. According to Google, YouTube now has over a billion viewers a day worldwide. In a relatively short time, digital video has become a significant source of not only entertainment but of information on […]
Social Networking and Digital Humanities Projects
November 30, 2009
How can digital humanities projects use social networking to expand their audience base and excite new audiences about content? Hi, my name is Amanda Sikarskie, and I work in project development on the Quilt Index, www.quiltindex.org. The QI is an online resource for scholars and educators, providing access to images and metadata for around 50,000 […]