{"id":171,"date":"2012-12-31T09:15:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T14:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/?p=171"},"modified":"2012-12-31T09:18:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T14:18:53","slug":"students-as-apprentice-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/2012\/12\/31\/students-as-apprentice-scholars\/","title":{"rendered":"Students as Apprentice Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the late 1990s, I have recruited students to work on the <em>John Milton Reading Room,<\/em> an online hyperlinked edition of Milton&#8217;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 used by readers around the work.\u00a0 The <em>MRR<\/em> answers about 16-18 thousand requests for pages every day. Britannica, Norton Literature Online, Wikipedia and scores of library guides link to the site. It is used as a primary text in many Milton courses around the world.\u00a0 See the list of student contributors at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/~milton\/reading_room\/links\/index.shtml\">http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/~milton\/reading_room\/links\/index.shtml<\/a>\u00a0 (Click on &#8220;About the <em>MRR&#8221;<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>This kind of teaching\/learning hasn&#8217;t translated well to the classroom, however. The courses I teach on Milton seem poorly structured for this kind of apprentice work. I&#8217;d like to change that if I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the late 1990s, I have recruited students to work on the John Milton Reading Room, an online hyperlinked edition of Milton&#8217;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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/2012\/12\/31\/students-as-apprentice-scholars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Students as Apprentice Scholars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-session-proposals","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}