After my students created Wikipedia pages in one of my classes this past spring, I was looking forward to the workshop on Wikipedia...
• Session runner is the Wikipedia editor in residence at Chemical Heritage
• How does Wikipedia define notability?
• Best practice: Let facts tell the story
• Wikipedia limits what users can do until they make X edits
• On user page there is sandbox to practice edits
• Important that students know what is appropriate about using Wikipedia
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.
PhillyDH: Literary Analysis of 19th/20th Century Texts
My day at PhillyDH began in a session on the literary analysis of 19th and 20th century texts...
• Have students look at off the beaten path 19c texts to see what else is happening during the era (so say not Eliot, Brontes, etc).
• Looking at newspapers from a certain year and connect to a text/genre.
• Using keyword search to map out main characters---victim---tropes---linguistic patterns
• How can text analysis lead to better close reading?
• Google NGraw can help, but does have limitations...could help students see cultural influences
• I had a class figure out % of characters speaking in King Lear and then write response to how this affected their close reading.
• How does students lack of curiosity about technology hurt implementing digital humanities projects?
• How does automation further injure this?
• Collaboration between liberal arts and STEM classes.
• How do we get collaborative feedback during projects?
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
New Book Review
I have a new book review out in the Polymath journal. I reviewed the Hacking The Academy anthology that came out last year. Here is a direct PDF link.
Malcolm X
““I’ve seen black musicians when they’d be jamming at a jam session with white musicians—a whole lot of difference. The white musician can jam on something that he’s heard before. If he’s heard it, then he can duplicate it or he can imitate it or he can read it.
But the black musician, he picks up his horn and starts blowing some sounds that he never thought of before. He improvises, he creates, it comes from within. It’s his soul, it’s that soul music. It’s the only area on the American scene where the black man has been free to create. And he has mastered it. He has shown that he can come up with something that nobody ever thought of on his own before.
Well, likewise he can do the same thing if given intellectual independence. He can come up with a new philosophy. He can come up with a philosophy that nobody has heard of yet. He can invent a society, a social system, an economic system, a political system, that is different from anything that exists or has ever existed anywhere on this earth. He will improvise; he’ll bring it from within himself. And this is what you and I want.””
Malcolm X, Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (1964)
MLA Formatting Video
A project I have worked on this year was making tutorial videos for my classes. It took me awhile to get the right app/platform/etc for it, but this is the first video I am publicly releasing on MLA formatting in papers.