- The Toast on Edna St. Vincent Millay.
- Amanda French on the books in Millay's library.
- Molly Crabapple on the Dissident Fetish.
- The Extinction Burst Of Gaming Culture.
- On Translating Clarice Lispecter.
- An excerpt from Jill Lepore's new book about Wonder Woman.
- Why mental illness is on the rise in academia.
- Jill Walker Rettberg on publishing her excellent new book under a Creative Commons license.
- Kate Fagen on Abby Wambach's post soccer future.
- A conversation with Borges about God.
ThatCamp Philadelphia 2014: Social Media In The Classroom
- Lists of accounts to follow for each classmate
Many of my students seem to be locking their accounts after events of this summer like #yesallwomen, #gamergate, Gaza, Ferguson, etc
Adeline Koh does a Twitter role play assignment
How to set limits on contact
I think giving students options for how to contact you where they are comfortable is important
ThatCamp Philadelphia 2014: How Can The Digital Humanities Inform The Work Of Scholarly Communication?
Janine Utell had proposed this session, but she was unable to attend so I served as moderator in her place.
Faculty need to publish in peer reviewed journals for tenure
This is weird to say because it implies that open access journals are not peer reviewed. This is propaganda coming from somewhere and I am troubled every time I hear it.
- Copyright hurdles on campus
Do you have a data management plan?
Differences between teaching schools and research schools
Haystack is helpful source for DH stuff
Funding opportunities can be opened up via the digital humanities and open access
The R1/University experience generally feels like a different universe from the one I live in that I want nothing to do with.
The idea of paying $1,000 to make an article open access is one of the most offensive ideas I have ever encountered.
What about class issues and working with various populations if there is a need for cash to access information?
That is elitist universities and publishers declaring war on the lower classes access to information.
ThatCamp Philadelphia 2014: Turning Analog Class Assignments Into Digital
This session was proposed and moderated by Michelle Moravec. Some of these notes were taken from the shared Google Doc for the session
Curricular transformation question as opposed to a pedagogical question
How are you differentiating between a project and an assignment?
How do you align course outcomes with digital assignments?
Misconceptions: DH projects are “fun” as opposed to work
Class assignment ideas:
Lauren Fonseca's students use Wikispaces to create end of term work
Group work rubrics are established and they are graded based on their goals.
Wikipedia: What would you add to this page to make it more credible?
Immediate rebuttal if you post something inappropriate
Wikipedia is very useful for background information and the genesis of secondary research
Student familiarity is also important
If you are going to try to have your students use a program, make sure you as the instructor know how to use it or support it.
Faculty should always begin small. Big myth that digital is easy.
Some potential platforms...
Scaffolding projects
Create accessible moments within each project.
ThatCamp Philadelphia 2014: Working With Students Who Have Low Technology Skills In Distance Education
This was the session I proposed and moderated at ThatCamp Philadelphia 2014.
So much automation today...students do not learn to code, html, like a lot of us did back in the day.
What is the library's role?
Who is responsible for technology skills, students, or colleges?
Students are often scared to break something, so do not try to fix things because K-12 is so punishing of mistakes.
How can we make basic digital skills something worth learning?
Tell students to look for answers on Youtube.
What about a forum on Blackboard for students to help each other with technical problems?
What about a distance education scavenger hunt?
Is this an institutional issue or a student issue?
Many of these issues could be resolved at orientation, but it is not mandatory at many schools.
Make a list of resources for help on Blackboard for technology problems.
How do we support students after disasters?
Why aren't there tests to see if students are ready for technology requirements?
They Let Me Give An Award...Again!
Back in April, I had the great honor of giving our annual award from the literature program to my incredible student Nicole Cammarota. Nicole had me for three classes and also did a directed study with me as well. She is one of the best students I have ever had and the vote in our department was actually unanimous to award her, which is quite rare.
ThatCamp Philly 2014: An Overview
I had a great time, as always, at ThatCamp Philadelphia this year. Expect some posts coming in future weeks with my notes from the day. I attended four sessions and proposed, and then moderated, two sessions. Those sessions were on working with students in distance education who have low technology skills and a session on how the digital humanities inform scholarly communication.
