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:
- Ryan Cordell, “How Not to Teach the Digital Humanities,” 1 February 2015, http://ryancordell.org/teaching/how-not-to-teach-digital-humanities/
- Julia Flanders, “The Productive Unease of 21st-century Scholarship,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 3:3 (2009), http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/3/000055/000055.html.
- A few examples of assignments, projects, and syllabi featuring some of the tools and methods addressed in this institute
Other resources:
- Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models and Experiments, Modern Language Association (preprint 2016), https://digitalpedagogy.mla.hcommons.org
- Brett D. Hirsch, ed. Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics. Open Book Publishers, 2012. http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/161/digital-humanities-pedagogy–practices–principles-and-politics
- Johanna Drucker, “Intro to Digital Humanities,” UCLA, http://dh101.humanities.ucla.edu/
- The Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy, https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
- Hybrid Pedagogy, http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/hybridped/
- Tooling Up for Digital Humanities: Pedagogy, Stanford University, http://toolingup.stanford.edu/?page_id=1211
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:
- *Christof Schöch, “Big? Smart? Clean? Messy? Data in the Humanities,” Journal of Digital Humanities 2:3 (2013), http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-3/big-smart-clean-messy-data-in-the-humanities/
- *Lisa Gitelman, “Introduction,” Raw Data Is an Oxymoron ed. Gitelman (MIT Press 2013), pdf: RawData.
- Thomas Padilla and David Higgins, “Library Collections as Humanities Data: The Facet Effect,” Public Services Quarterly 10:4 (2014), http://thomaspadilla.org/papers/padillahiggins_humdata_postprint.pdf (doi:10.1080/15228959.2014.963780)
- Also of interest: P. Gabrielle Foreman and Labanya Mookerjee, “Computing in the Dark: Spreadsheets, Data Collection, and DH’s Racist Inheritance” in “Collections as Data Position Papers,” https://collectionsasdata.github.io/aac_positionstatements.pdf
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:
- *Trevor Muñoz and Katie Rawson, “Against Cleaning,” Curating Menus, 6 July 2016, http://curatingmenus.org/articles/against-cleaning/
- *Johanna Drucker, “Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 5.1 (2011), http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/1/000091/000091.html
- *Hadley Wickham, “Tidy Data,” Journal of Statistical Software 59 (2014), http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.pdf
- Ed Summers, “On Forgetting and Hydration,” On Archivy, Nov. 18, 2014, https://medium.com/on-archivy/on-forgetting-e01a2b95272
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:
- *Megan Brett, “Topic Modeling: A Basic Introduction,” Journal of Digital Humanities 2:1 (Winter 2012), http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-1/topic-modeling-a-basic-introduction-by-megan-r-brett/
- *Scott B. Weingart, “Demystifying Networks, Parts I & II,” Journal of Digital Humanities 1:1 (2011), http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-1/demystifying-networks-by-scott-weingart/
- *Ted Underwood, “Seven ways humanists are using computers to understand text,” Jun. 4, 2015, https://tedunderwood.com/2015/06/04/seven-ways-humanists-are-using-computers-to-understand-text/
- Trevor Owens, “Discovery and Justification are Different: Notes on Science-ing the Humanities,” Nov. 19, 2012, http://www.trevorowens.org/2012/11/discovery-and-justification-are-different-notes-on-sciencing-the-humanities/
- Ted Underwood, “Topic modeling made just simple enough,” Apr. 7, 2012, https://tedunderwood.com/2012/04/07/topic-modeling-made-just-simple-enough/
- Elijah Meeks and Maya Krishnan, “Introduction to Network Analysis and Representation,” http://dhs.stanford.edu/dh/networks/
- Also of interest: Claire Lemercier, “Formal Network Methods in History: Why and How?,” Social Networks, Political Institutions, and Rural Societies (Brepols, 2015), https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00521527v2/document
- Alan Liu, “DH Toychest,” http://dhresourcesforprojectbuilding.pbworks.com/w/page/69244243/FrontPag
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:
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- *Haley Di Pressi, Stephanie Gorman, et al., “A Student Collaborator’s Bill of Rights,” UCLA Digital Humanities, http://www.cdh.ucla.edu/news-events/a-student-collaborators-bill-of-rights/
- *Digital Safety for Open Researchers, https://github.com/opendigitalsafety/Digital-Safety-for-Open-Researchers OR https://digital-safety-for-open-research.gitbook.io/project/
- “Fair Use Fundamentals,” http://fairuseweek.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ARL-FUW-Infographic-r4.pdf
- Bethany Nowviskie, “Evaluating Collaborative Digital Scholarship (or, Where Credit Is Due),” Journal of Digital Humanities 1:4 (Fall 2012), http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-4/evaluating-collaborative-digital-scholarship-by-bethany-nowviskie/
- Also of interest: project charters from the Scholars’ Lab, http://praxis.scholarslab.org/charter/
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:
- Lisa Spiro, “‘This Is Why We Fight’: Defining the Values of the Digital Humanities,”Debates in Digital Humanities (2012), http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/13
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.