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Teaching Fails: What Didn’t Go as Planned in Your Courses?
It was a great idea, but it turned into a sizzling mess.
Education
Video: Teaching with Twitter – Pedagogy & Practice
In this video, Dr. Robert Williamson, Jr. (@rwilliamsonjr) of Hendrix College talks about how he teaches with Twitter. The video was created from a Google Hangout, Social Media in the Classroom: Extending the Learning Community, between Dr. Robert Williamson, Jr. and Dr. Amanda Hagood (@ACSLearning) as part of the Associated Colleges of the South’s Blended… Read more »
Digital Humanities
We’re Not Teaching the Next Generation of Digital Humanists
I’m looking forward to a moment in the future. That moment is when the word “digital” is dropped from “digital humanities.”
Education
Link: Alternate Reality Games in the Classroom
“Alternate Reality Games in the Classroom,” written by Anastasia Salter (@AnaSalter) and published by Profhacker.
Digital Humanities
Teaching with Twitter: 5 Resources for Getting Started
Dr. Robert Williamson Jr. shares resources he found helpful in developing his own pedagogy of Twitter.
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Twitter: Making a Digital Display for Your Office Door
Inspired by a ProfHacker article from a few years back, I decided to try using Twitter to create a digital sign outside my office door. That way, I can let students know if I’m available for a drop-in conversation or whether I’m prepping for class and don’t want to be disturbed. It also lets me… Read more »
Digital Humanities
It Takes a Village to Teach DH
It takes a village to teach intro to DH. I firmly believe that digital humanities is a team sport where faculty, technologists, and librarians play an equal part. This orientation is especially true in my intro to dh course. This semester, Jim and I have been lucky that many of our colleagues from the other… Read more »
Education
Online Learning and the Tyranny of the Database
A recent Techcrunch article concerning MOOCs suggested that a majority of people teaching online felt their online course shouldn’t count for college credit. And yet, a refrain I have heard several times recently is that online courses are actually more difficult than the face-to-face course, which got me thinking about what exactly is meant by… Read more »
Digital Humanities
Cultivating Prosumers: A Dispatch from Intro to DH
We are now three weeks into our intro to dh course! I appreciated this comment from my first blog post introducing the series: “This is pretty exciting – I look forward to seeing how the course moves forward. I’m also very interested to hear what the students expect from the course, and how that lines… Read more »
