Digital Pedagogy Course at the DHSI
Together with Katherine D. Harris and Diane Jakacki, in June 2012 I will be facilitating a Digital Humanities Summer Institute course on “Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities.” Below is the course description. After the Institute, I’ll be sure to post related materials in my portfolio. Having participated in the DHSI for three consecutive years now, I’m looking forward to my first opportunity as a DHSI instructor.
“Intended for teaching faculty, instructors, librarians, and graduate students, this course provides a “best practices” approach to using digital humanities tools and processes in humanities courses for the purposes of communication, collaboration and facility of research. The course will unfold along two parallel tracks, [1] an overview of how best to incorporate DH tools into a given syllabus — how to harness DH tools to support larger pedagogical objectives, set goals, and manage expectations, and [2] a practical examination of a variety of DH tools, from those serving the needs of a particular course (e.g., “home-built” digital editions, wikis, blogs, websites, GIS/Google Maps, and content management systems such as Moodle) to more general purpose, web 2.0 tools (e.g., Zotero, Prezi, Twitter, YouTube, and Dipity). Across the five days of DHSI, the course will move from a theoretical to a practical framework. It will be tool- and method-centric, and we will be invested in experimenting with an array of options (e.g., actually building model wikis or blogs, as well as live demo’ing approaches such as peer evaluation through a Twitter backchannel). Participants are asked to bring their own computers, together with at least one sample syllabus (for a course already taught or to be taught), which will be used as the basis for much of the work we do as the week progresses. By the course’s conclusion, participants should leave with (at a minimum) an existing syllabus revised to better meet their own expectations of digital pedagogy in the humanities.”
