One Session Wonder presentation to kick off a discussion of Digital Humanities in courses. [version 1, it needs revision, and more examples/ interactivity]

1. Digital Humanities:
Examples of
Practice
R. John Robertson
CETL One Session Wonder
October 14th 2013

2. Overview
Introductions
Framing the conversation
Shaped by Lisa Spiro’s Digital scholarship blog:
http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/

3. three things
University provides a myriad of opportunities for
students. What three things do students most
need to learn in order to graduate and thrive
after university?

4. What is Digital Humanities?
"In a short period of time, digital technology has changed
our world. The ways we read, write, learn, communicate,
and play have fundamentally changed due to the advent of
networked digital technologies. These changes are being
addressed in fascinating ways by scholars from across the
humanities, often working in collaboration with scientists,
librarians, museum staff, and members of the public." http:
//www.neh.gov/divisions/odh/about

5. Digital Humanities landscape
Text
- what are we studying and what counts
Data
- new approaches and perspectives
Community
- who participates, with what role, and how?

6. AACU: Kuh’s High Impact Practices
First Year Seminars and Experiences
Common Intellectual Experiences
Learning Communities
Writing Intensive Courses
Collaborative Assignments and Projects
Undergraduate Research
Diversity / Global Learning
Service Learning/ Community-Based Learning
Internships
Capstone Courses and Projects
http://www.aacu.org/leap/hip.cfm

7. 21st Century
Skills
http://www.imls.
gov/about/21st_century_skills_list.
aspx

8. Examples

9. Tools
Registry of Digital
Research Tools
http://dirt.
projectbamboo.org/
Twitter Archiving
http://mashe.hawksey.
info/2013/02/twitter-archivetagsv5/

10. Corpus analysis
Topic modelling http:
//journalofdigitalhumanities.
org/
D. M. BLEI (2012) Topic
Modeling and Digital
Humanities.
Journal of Digital Humanities
vol 2 issue 1 http:
//journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-1/topic-modelingand-digital-humanities-by-david-m-blei/
Figure 1: Some of the topics found by analyzing 1.8
million articles from the New York Times. Each panel
illustrates a set of tightly co-occurring terms in the
collection. Hoffman, M., Blei, D. Wang, C. and Paisley,
J. “Stochastic variational inference.” Journal of
Machine Learning Research, forthcoming.

11. For example, Mallet & GUI version
Wordpress xml export - first pass topic map
http://code.google.com/p/topic-modeling-tool/

12. Corpus analysis
Geospatial analysis
Whaling grounds through ships charts
in a collection. See http:
//journalofdigitalhumanities.org/
Professions and names in a place in
time
http://addressinghistory.edina.ac.uk/
Photographs and tweets can
frequently be geolocated

13. Interrelatedness
@wired UK friends network by Martin Hawksey
http://mashe.hawksey.info/2011/09/twitter-network-analysis-and-visualisation-ii-nodexl/

14. Digital Humanities syllabi
http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.
com/2013/03/04/digital-pedagogy-inpractice-workshop-materials/
https://www.zotero.
org/groups/digital_humanities_educatio
n
https://www.zotero.
org/groups/digital_humanities_educatio
n/items/collectionKey/MXXEMX7P
http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.
php/DH_Syllabi

15. Student blogging
Blogging as:
academic discourse
public engagement
communal activity
ownership of identity and ideas
See:
SOTL Scholar work
etc.

16. Bite size academics
Twitter vz Zombies
http://www.twittervszombies.com/
http://www.jessestommel.com/blog/files/twitter_vs_zombies.html
Tweet your thesis
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/you-can-summarize-your-thesis-in-a-tweet-but-should-you

17. Shared Creative Practice
*without a net
*public / open
*choice
*building ability and
confidence
*academic?
DS106 Assignment Bank
http://assignments.ds106.us/

18. For who and by who?
http://phonar.covmedia.co.uk/
An Open
Photography Course
*impact of digital
*modality
*distributed / open
*inclusive / expertise

19. Libraries

20. How do some of these examples
interact with your 3 things

21. How might this work in _____ ?
Is there a type of activity which you do or might
do in your course that you consider to fit with
this?

22. Sites
http://www.dhthis.org
http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org
http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org
http://www.neh.gov/divisions/odh
http://dh2013.unl.edu
http://humanexperience.stanford.edu/digital_humanities
http://www.cdh.ucla.edu/research/dhprojects.html
http://phonar.covmedia.co.uk
http://dirt.projectbamboo.org/
http://dmlcentral.net

23. References
http://chronicle.com/article/Stop-Calling-It-Digital/137325/
http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/Beyond_Rigor.html
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/09/the-rise-of-the-reader-katharine-viner-ansmith-lecture
http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/digital-pedagogy-in-practice-workshop-materials/
http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2012/04/08/single-best-free-way-transform-classroomprimary-lifelongl-any-sizehttp://digitalscholarship.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/gettysburgdhcasestudiesfinal.pdf
http://www.aacu.org/leap/What_is_liberal_education.cfm
http://www.imls.gov/about/21st_century_skills_list.aspx
http://www.aacu.org/leap/hip.cfm
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