Just today, I was alerted by my Internet host that this website had a critical error. It turns out that the theme we chose to use for our unconference in January 2013 was no longer working the way it was intended. I didn’t want to take the site down, and so I’ve just switched the …
Category Archives: Session Proposals
Rethinking Graduate Education
Much of the conversation about digital pedagogies seems to be implicitly centered around undergraduate students. I’d love to have a conversation about how digital pedagogies are changing academic spaces for graduate students both in classrooms and beyond. How are your classes using digital pedagogies for grad students, especially outside of digital humanities courses? Are there …
Online Spaces and Writing
I’m a PhD student, and I started teaching freshman composition last semester. Although I had initially envisioned my students tweeting and blogging, the time constraint and required rubric that the class had to follow made me realize that using these social media platforms are difficult to do in a tightly structured composition class. We did, …
FERPA and teaching with open digital tools
Do you have your students blog, tweet or use Facebook as part of class? Are you worried about the impact of using social media combined with FERPA? I’m proposing a small session to talk about this, and to navigate potential issues. A set of good guidelines can be found on Cathy Davidson’s HASTAC blog. Kevin …
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MOOCs and Digital Pedagogy
I would like to discuss the viability of MOOCs as a pedagogical mode within the humanities. 1. How do MOOCs disrupt the traditional curriculums, economies, and power dynamics of higher ed.? 2. How do we measure success within a MOOC? 3. What are the various pedagogies of MOOCs (play, experimentation, active learning)? Can these pedagogies be equally …
Digital pedagogy outside the classroom
If others are interested, I’d love to spend some time talking about ways that we can (or could, or already do) incorporate digital pedagogy methods not just to teach students in the classroom, but also to “teach” our colleagues or other non-students. As someone in the alt-academic world, I’ve been thinking a lot about the …
“Occupy the public domain”
I’ve taken the title of my proposal from Jennifer Rothman’s February 6, 2012 op-ed piece in the San Francisco Chronicle where she argues, “Instead of providing for sharing […] important [civic] moments, our government has been complicit in endorsing a vision of copyright law in which nothing is free for use by the public.” Today …
Writing, Comp/Rhet, and DH Tools
In my current position, I teach English primarily as composition and rhetoric. For most of my students, my class is their first experience with college level-writing. I’d like to think about ways to incorporate current open-source digital tools into the comp/rhet classroom with specific ideas for assignments, daily writing, and connection outside the classroom. Some …
DH and the First Year Writing Course
As a graduate student I have few chances to teach upper level courses, so almost all of my teaching experience is with first year writing courses and first year literature courses, both of which are highly structured by a Writing Programs office (standard syllabus, learning outcomes, sometimes a particular reading list, etc.,). I’m having a …
Students as Apprentice Scholars
Since the late 1990s, I have recruited students to work on the John Milton Reading Room, an online hyperlinked edition of Milton’s poetry and selected prose. They have prepared texts, tagged spelling variants, written annotations and introductions. Working as apprentices under a Presidential Fellows program administered by Dartmouth, dozens of students have produced meaningful scholarship …