#5CDH: Walls, Shawls, iPads, Maps & DH
Posted: March 3, 2013 | Author: Caro Pinto | Filed under: 5CDH, digital-humanities, five-college-collaboration, higher-education, teaching, technology |1 Comment »-
@oleblanc follow #5cdh & @caropinto for live tweets from the “Of Roman Walls” DH Event at Amherst 3/1 ow.ly/hMUhf
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A panel featuring Karen Remmler (MHC), Jon Olson, (UM) & Caro Pinto (HC) kicked off the afternoon.
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Olson is talking about ‘hacking the humanities.’ What are the humanities now? #5CDH
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The Europe in the 20th c. history site @jonberndtolsen and his students created digital.history.umass.edu/e… built with WordPress #5CDH
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Olson described how his humanities classes incorporated technology & the delicate balance between humanities & technology. Of course, this is not a question limited to just the humanities.
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Olson: How do we offer technology courses geared towards the humanities? This is an issue for science students too – multidisc problem #5CDH
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It is clear faculty cannot tackle content & technology on their own. What are the best practices?
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Olson musing on how to teach digital skills in the humanities. He suggests computer scientists embedded, I say, librarians. #5CDH
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Olson aslo mused about how mold our students into makers. Jeffrey Schapp from Harvard talks about cultivating a hybrid producer/consumer model called prosumers.
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Olson: Our students are largely digital consumers & not necessarily digital producers. Glad I am trying to mold prosumers. #5CDH
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Caro Pinto talked about translating the value of successful and unsuccessful DH projects; how to build effective teams, and how to balance hierarchy and collaboration.
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.@caropinto Librarians embedded in courses can really shape how to teach technology- how do we translate the value of what we’re doing #5CDH
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.@caropinto How do we translate the value of failure? Good question! So much value in something traditionally seen as ‘bad.’ #5CDH
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Karen Remmler discussed feminism & DH.
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Karen Remmler is now talking about the symposium she is putting together about feminism in the digital age. #5CDH
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Remmler: How do we decide what knowledge is valuable? #5CDH
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Remmler’s comments connect the the emergent #transformdh movement led by @adelinekoh & others.
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Karen Remmler brings up appropriateness of using the term DH, in LACs and generally. Reminds me of @pannapacker @adelinekoh & others #5CDH
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Remmler is talking about the digital divide, the knowledge divide. How those forces shape who is #dh. #transformdh #5CDH
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Remmler also talked about upcoming events & projects that explore these issues.
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Exciting media & digital-focused projects from the 5Colleges Women’s Studies Rsrch Ctr, which Remmler directs fivecolleges.edu/fcwsrc/pro… #5CDH
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The Q & A advanced a discussion of how to balance teaching content w/ teaching technology.
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.@caropinto Need to organize low-level classes to introduce students to tech, but higher-level courses have higher tech requirements. #5CDH
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And what types of assumptions we make about why our students reject e-books.
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Q: How do we get students excited abt tech? Olson: This is not an eBook or an eArticle generation – students not digitally savvy #5CDH
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.@caropinto Barrier to using eBooks – not a format we librarians like to use – can’t pass on excitement if you’re not excited abt it. #5CDH
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We need to also think ab the materiality of the text, not just the content – hard copy may be important for some reading #5CDH
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What kinds of tools do we want to use? What kind of infrastructure do we want to build?
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.@caropinto What kind of future do we want to build with technology? What do we want it to look like? #5CDH
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.@caropinto Educating students about economies behind digital technologies they use – what will happen to Twitter in 5 yrs? Copyright? #5CDH
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And then the group asked how do we preserve these projects?
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.@caropinto – “we need to decide whether or not we’re keeping these projects” re: student digital work. A very real question #5CDH
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Then we broke for lunch. Attendees and panelists mingled as students gathered to talk about their work and experiences.
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After a lunch break, we are back with a student panel. #5CDH
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The panel featured both graduate students & undergraduate students talking about their projects.
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Students processing archival collecting while blogging. Lots of engagement from professionals around the world. #5CDH
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Learning abt Early Novels Database: Part digitization, part recording info. Gain access to great collx of text syslsl01.library.upenn.edu/… #5CDH
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Discussing the historicdress.org/omeka/ project, powered by Omeka. Different period but thought of you @nervesandveins #5CDH
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Looking at the Holyoke self-tour project from the Wistariahurst Museum, can be used on smartphones wistariahurst.org/walk-holy… #5CDH
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Students followed up on the skill building conversation that began during the panel sharing their experiences with short term certificate courses.
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Photoshop, Garage Band, Final Cut Pro, DreamWeaver, all skills included in an Intro to Digital Media class. Students get certificate. #5CDH
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Big assumption that current generation is tech literate. Not true – some learn on their own, but not a pervasive skill #5CDH
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Of course, this is a brave new world for students. DH includes experimentation, it brings trial & error to the humanities.
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“There isn’t a template for doing any project” – necessary learning to experiment, trial & error valuable in and of itself #5CDH
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As well as boredom.
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Student admits the “boring” “drudgery” of work behind sexy DH projects – how to balance this with LAC traditions of analysis? #5CDH
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Project managers & faculty need to effectively communicate expectations and DH values to new participants to contextualize their labor.
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Student talks ab importance of prof helping them think through theoretical, academic implications of the “drudgery” work they did #5CDH
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Q: How do you deal with the drudgery? A: When you’re done, realize how important & worthwhile it was. Balancing b/t drudgery&fun helps #5CDH
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But the proof is in the pudding:
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Student describes first uploads to Omeka as “amazing” – like “first discovering google search” #5CDH cc @patrick_mj
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Students are gratified to see their work online. Really gratified. #5CDH
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Important pedagogical implications RT @caropinto Students are gratified to see their work online. Really gratified. #5CDH
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Eric Poehler shares Pompeii Project that featured iPads, enthusiastic students & drones.
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Investigating Pompeii without excavation. Digital Magic! #5CDH.
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Beautiful non-intrusive, digital archaeology of Pompeii from @Pompeiana79 – including cool drone camerawork #5CDH #MakeScholarshipNotWar
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great to watch @Pompeiana79 explain how to use iPad for #archaeology mapping when excavation too costly, intrusive #5CDH #DH #preservation
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Poehler’s effectively demonstrated how the technology enabled his team to do more analysis.
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New tech allows archaeologists to spend less time measuring and matching, and more time to extend the interpretation of work. #5CDH
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Putting interpretation in the field – real value of efficiency #5CDH
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.@Pompeiana79: #digital technology allows us to record data in 1/10 time–which allows us 10x as much time for interpretation. #archaeology
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@Pompeiana79: #archaeology #mapping techniques e.g. terrestrial laser scanning, #drones (drink!), cloud-based photogrammetry, GPR #DH
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With wonderful offline implications:
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.@pompeiana79: once you learn to see time in material, you’ll never look at things the same way again #archaeology #preservation
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After Poehler’s talk, we closed out the day with posters & socializing.
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Finishing up the day with a ‘moveable feast’ of poster sessions from current projects in Five Colleges. #5CDH
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