Schedule

Overview
Pre-Institute
In-Person Sessions
Virtual Sessions
Wrap-Up

Overview

Comprised of introductory readings on digital pedagogy (March-June 2018), a week-long in-person session (July 2018), five virtual sessions and as-needed asynchronous communication in the year following (August 2018-April 2019), and a final sharing of resources (May-June 2019), the institute is structured to give participants the time and space to learn new approaches as well as integrate them into teaching. The in-person sessions will focus on methods and tools for creating and analyzing textual data. The virtual sessions will focus on pedagogical practice, exposing participants to real world examples and best practices in teaching with digital humanities. Over the course of the program, participants will develop a course, syllabus module, assignment, or workshop, and will deposit it in an open-access repository. Attendees will thus gain a foundation in key methods, issues, and tools in the creation and analysis of data derived from text, as well as ways to incorporate them in the undergraduate classroom.

**Schedule subject to change as needed.  Any changes will be updated and reflected here.**

Pre-institute (March-June 2018):

  • Participants will post on the participant-only institute discussion forum to introduce themselves to each other as well as share their interests and initial responses to readings.  Readings available as a Pressbook here.

Required readings:

Other resources:


In-person session (July 16-20, 2018)

July 16 | Day 1: Datafying Text
Guest Faculty: Thomas Padilla and Brandon Locke

Topics & Skills:

  • Overview of key methods, issues, and concepts for getting text-based data
  • Organizing and breaking down texts into more granular data
  • Teaching data collection and collaboratively collecting data

Related Readings/Resources:

Schedule:

  • 8-10a | Introductions, overview of institute
  • 10-11a | Lecture & Discussion: Creating and collecting textual data
  • 11-11:20a | Break
  • 11:20a-12:20p | Workshop: Data collection with WGET and Postman
  • 12:30-1:30p | Lunch
  • 1:30-2:30p |  Discussion & Workshop: Collecting and working with social media data
  • 2:30-2:50p | Break
  • 2:50-3:50p |Discussion & Workshop: Gathering data through APIs with Postman
  • 3:50-5p | Pedagogical Session

July 17 | Day 2: Datafying Text, cont. and Beginning Data Visualization
Guest Faculty: Thomas Padilla and Brandon Locke

Topics & Skills:

  • Organizing and breaking down texts into more granular data (cont.)
  • Creating basic data visualizations from a spreadsheet
  • Introducing “data” analysis in the classroom

Related Readings/Resources:

Schedule:

  • 8:30-10:30a | Discussion & Workshop: Data structuring and cleaning with Open Refine
  • 10:30-10:45a | Break
  • 10:45a-11:45p | Discussion & Workshop: Adding/Extracting Structure in Text
  • 11:45-12:45p | Lunch
  • 12:45-2:00p | Discussion & Workshop: Basic data visualization with wtfcsv, Rawgraphs, and Palladio
  • 2:00-3:00p | Pedagogical Session
  • 3:00-3:15p | Break
  • 3:15-4:45p | Discussion: Topic Modeling

July 18 | Day 3: Network Analysis and Text Analysis
Guest Faculty: Thomas Padilla and Brandon Locke

 Topics & Skills:

  • Beginning network analysis
  • Beginning text analysis and topic modeling
  • Navigating visualization and tool options in the classroom

Related Readings/Resources:

Schedule:

  • 8:30-10a | Workshop: Network analysis
  • 10-10:15a | Break
  • 10:15-11:30 | Discussion: Textual data at a macro level, or reading at scale
  • 11:30-12:30p | Lunch
  • 12:30-1:45 | Workshop: Text Analysis with Voyant
  • 1:45-2p | Break
  • 2-4p | Workshop: Further Development
  • 4-5:15p | Pedagogical Session

July 19 | Day 4: Creating, Sharing, Curating Digital Texts
Guest Faculty: Alicia Peaker

Topics & Skills:

  • Scaffolding dh training in the classroom
  • Finding and using platforms or repositories for sharing textual data and analysis

Related Readings/Resources:

Schedule:

  • 9-10:30a | Pedagogical Session
  • 10:30-10:45a | Break
  • 10:45-11:30a | Presentation & Discussion: Privacy, Intellectual Property, and Credit in Classroom DH
  • 11:30a-12:15p | Presentation & Discussion: Platforms for digital exhibition and publication
  • 12:15-1:15p | Lunch
  • 1:15-2:30p | Workshop: Collections and exhibits with Omeka
  • 2:30-2:50p | Break
  • 2:50-4:15p | Workshop: Collections and exhibits with Scalar
  • 4:15-5p | Discussion: Where to go from here? Finding support on your campus

July 20 | Day 5: Teaching DH
Topics & Skills:

  • Implementing these skills, tools, and methods in the undergraduate classroom
  • Designing and assessing a classroom DH project or assignment

Readings:

Schedule:

  • 9-10:30a | Discussion: Designing, scoping, and scaffolding a classroom DH assignment
  • 10:30-10:45a | Break
  • 10:45-11:30a | Workshop: Evaluating and grading a digital assignment
  • 11:30a-12:30p | Workshop: Participants workshop their own classroom DH ideas
  • 12:30-1:30p | Lunch
  • 1:30-2:30p | Workshop, cont.: Participants workshop their classroom DH ideas
  • 2:30-2:45p | Break
  • 2:45-3:45p | Workshop, cont.: Participants workshop their classroom DH ideas
  • 3:45-5p | Discussion: Wrapping up

 

Virtual Sessions & Asynchronous Communication (August 2018-April 2019):

A discussion forum will be available to participants to communicate with the group: ask questions, post resources, share ideas, and more.

August 2018 | Pedagogical practice
Lead by Miriam Posner, Assistant Professor of Information Studies and Digital Humanities, UCLA

October 2018 | Incorporating the digital humanities in subject-specific courses
Lead by Rachel Sagner Buurma, Associate Professor of English Literature, Swarthmore College

December 2018 | Engaging undergraduates in the research process through text analysis
Lead by Michelle Moravec, Associate Professor of History, Rosemont College

February 2019 | Undergraduate research and digital platforms
Lead by Jentery Sayers, Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Maker Lab in the Humanities, University of Victoria

April 2019 | Engagement, ethics, and community
Lead by Jesse Stommel, Executive Director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies, University of Mary Washington

Wrap-up (May – June 2019):

June 2019 | Open-access publication

  • Participants submit the digital humanities assignment, module, syllabus, or workshop they have developed using the skills addressed in the institute for the institute’s open-access repository. 

June 2019 | Qualitative survey

  • Participants will complete a qualitative survey reflecting on the development of their skills and assignments, highlighting strategies they used and the particularities of teaching digital humanities in their role and institute. These surveys will inform the co-directors’ final white paper, which will share the participants’ insights and the institute outcomes.