7. The Long Tail!
Mass
Industrializa.on
MOOC
Mass
Customiza.on
Amazon
Small
Liberal
Arts
Colleges
Humani.es
Projects
Local
8. DH and Liberal Education!
Alexander & Davis. “Should
Liberal Arts Campuses Do
Digital Humanities?
Process and Products in
the Small College World.”
In Debates in the Digital
Humanities, ed. Matthew K.
Gold. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota
Press, 2012.!
9. NITLE Survey of Digital Humanities
at Liberal Arts Colleges!
• AY 2012-2013: survey & interviews!
• Current results!
– 32 institutions!
– 50 responses!
• Questions!
– Activities!
– Support!
– curriculum!
faculty
library
administrator
IT
museum
11. Curricular Structure!
• Of 32 institutions surveyed: !
– 1 has a major, minor, or program!
– 4 have a digital humanities course, e.g.,
Introduction to Digital Humanities!
– 23 have courses with some Digital
Humanities!
12. Avenues to Engage Undergrads
in Digital Humanities!
Internship#
Work#
Thesis/Project#
Undergrad#Research#
Coursework#
0%#
10%# 20%# 30%# 40%# 50%# 60%# 70%#
13. Digital Humanities as
Liberal Arts Mission!
• Undergraduate research !
• Pedagogy!
– active & collaborative learning!
– project based & applied learning !
• Preparing citizens in a networked world !
• Interdisciplinary work & integrative
learning!
• Civic engagement & place-based learning!
19. Keywords!
• Raymond Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of
Culture and Society (1975 & 1983) !
• Defining discourse!
• Building discourse across domains!
• Revealing tensions!
20. Playing with Text Analysis!
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22. Undergraduate Research!
• Student-faculty collaborative research!
• Tasks in expertise range of students!
• Meaningful contributions!
!
Chris
Blackwell
&
Tom
Mar.n,
“Technology,
Collabora.on,
and
Undergraduate
Research.”
Digital
Humani,es
Quarterly
3,
no.
1
(2009).
26. Wheaton College Digital History
Project!
• Kathryn Tomasek,
Associate Professor
of History!
• History methods
course!
• Transcribing &
encoding archives!
• Partners: archivist,
technologist, librarian!
27. Day Book!
Daily accounting of
transactions that
reflect the many
business activities of
Laban Morey
Wheaton between
1828 and 1859!
!
NEH DH Start-up
grant: Encoding
Financial Records
for Historical
Research !
28. Collaborative Research
Assignment!
• Stage 1: Background Reading in Secondary
Sources!
• Stage 2: Transcription and Coding of Daybook
Page Spreads!
• Stage 3: Writing and Editing Episodes for the
History Engine!
• Stage 4: Writing a Paper Based on Primary
Sources!
30. Process Checklist for Integrating Digital
Humanities Projects into Courses!
1. Connecting Course and Project!
2. Scaffolding and Chunking!
3. Collaborative Teaching!
4. Logistics!
!
http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/
2012/09/13/process-checklist-for-integratingdigital-humanities-projects-into-courses/ !
37. Digital Field Scholarship!
• Davidson, Math Maps!
• Lewis and Clark, Digital
Field Scholarship
Seminar!
• Muhlenberg,
Documentary Research
Storymapping!
• Reed College, Carbon !
Field Studies!
Place-‐based,
Collabora,on,
Praxis,
Community,
Fieldwork,
Mul,modal,
Composi,on,
Storytelling
38. Situating the Global Environment!
• Lewis & Clark College!
• https://sge.lclark.edu/ !
• Jim Proctor,
“Situated Social Learning”!
• Interdisciplinary
environmental research!
• Situated research!
– Local focus on global issues!