Does DH assume a universal participant?
Why is English the default language of DH? Reminds me of session back at ELO2007.
Are there identifiable feminist communities in DH?
What is it like to code if you are African American, queer, transgendered, etc.
DH becomes a much bigger deal when NEH funding produces DATA in business cultures of higher education.
Reference to "Why Is DH So White?"
Role of Afro Futurism as an influence on DH.
ThatCamp Digital Pedagogy: Quelling Digital Panic In The College Classroom
The first session I attended at ThatCamp Digital Pedagogy was about quelling digital panic in the college classroom. Here are my notes:
- Almost every student has a smart phone.
- How do we engage student in classroom with so many distractions?
- Shared Google Docs are a possible solution, but I have had mixed results with them.
- How do we get students to buy into doing shared notes?
- What is role of learning disabilities in this panic?
- Google Doc for digital behaviour norms in classroom on first day of class? Cool idea!
- Texting/social media break midway through class?
- How do we teach digital citizenship?
- Have students research terms of service/privacy of social networks.
- I could do an entire semester of ENG101 on this...
- Shared class Tumblr.
ThatCamp Digital Pedagogy: Art and Craft In The Writing Classroom
The session I proposed at ThatCamp Digital Pedagogy was on the role of art and craft in the writing classroom...
• Can in class writing help with divide between art and craft?
• Do we need a greater variety of models?
• Who is the audience?
• Assignment: During peer review, report to professor on what you see in other students papers that make you want to change/fix in YOUR paper.
ThatCamp Digital Pedagogy: Digital Story Telling
An interesting session I attended at ThatCamp Digitial Pedagogy was about digital story telling...
• Hyperlink allows readers to make connections authors did not realize
• Collaborative narrative hypertext for classes
• How do we demystify DH for our own publications
• How mobile friendly is your document?
• What about accessibility?
• Twitter cosplay of characters in the classroom
• Storify could help with digital storytelling
• A few of us brought up hypertext fiction like The Unknown
• If you summarize what happens in a hypertext you will get many different answers
• Mentions of IFTTT and Yap
ThatCamp Digital Pedagogy: An Overview
I had a great time at ThatCamp Digital Pedagogy last week. It was nice to go home to Stockton for the day (in fact, the main room we were in was where I had a class with Scott Rettberg back in 2005!). I will post my notes from various sessions, including the one I ran on the differences between art and craft in the writing classroom, in the coming weeks. Big thanks to Adeline Koh for organizing this ThatCamp! I was able to do some promotion for ThatCamp Community College next year and I believe a handful of campers will be coming.
Update: Here are the shared Google Docs from the unconference.
Adeline Koh beginning the day.
What I Am Up To This Summer
I am hoping for, after a very turbulent spring semester, a pretty quiet summer. I am teaching three sections of distance education composition courses in the first part of the summer. Summer courses are normally pretty straight forward, although I did have a rather horrific plagiarism case last year.
I will be attending three unconferences this summer. June 18th is ThatCamp Digital Pedagogy at the Carnegie Library in Atlantic City. A few days later is the PhillyDH event at the University of Pennsylvania. Finally, I will return to Stockton for the NJEA's Techstock unconference.
At some point in the summer, the team behind ThatCamp Community College will meet to plan next year's unconference. I will have some posts about this year's unconference soon.
I am writing a bit this summer. I have a book review and journal article currently under consideration. More details on that as they emerge.