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Digital Humanities Initiative

The CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative (CUNY DHI), launched in Fall 2010, aims to build connections and community among those at CUNY who are applying digital technologies to scholarship and pedagogy in the humanities. All are welcome: faculty, students, and technologists, experienced practitioners and beginning DHers, enthusiasts and skeptics.

We meet regularly on- and offline to explore key topics in the Digital Humanities, and share our work, questions, and concerns. See our blog for more information on upcoming events (it’s also where we present our group’s work to a wider audience). Help edit the CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide, our first group project. And, of course, join the conversation on the Forum.

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Our Next Meeting: Tuesday 10/18: DH in the Classroom with Shannon Mattern & Mark Sample

  • Hi everyone! We’re very excited that on Tuesday (10/18) we’ll be welcoming Shannon Mattern (The New School) and Mark Sample (George Mason University) to speak on “Digital Humanities in the Classroom.” They are both wonderful speakers, and have provided some excellent suggested readings too.

    Details are below, and on our blog (http://bit.ly/nFexMp); we look forward to seeing you there!

    Time & Place: Tuesday October 18, 2011, 6:30-8:30pm, Room 6496, CUNY Graduate Center

    Shannon Mattern, “Beyond the Seminar Paper: Setting New Standards for New Forms of Student Work”

    By exploring how new technologies might function as teaching tools or platforms on which students can demonstrate their learning, we expand the means and ends of education. With this increasing openness of pedagogical forms comes the responsibility to justify our choices and develop new forms of criticism and modes of assessment. Using several of my own courses as examples, I’ll address the challenges and potential benefits of holding students, and ourselves, accountable for the choices we make in our classrooms and advising relationships. I’ll focus on the value of (1) student documentation of their learning process, and in particular (2) students’ justification of their chosen methods and modes of presentation; (3) collaborative development of criteria for evaluation; and (4) connecting our work in the classroom to larger public problems and public institutions.

    Suggested readings:
    • Shannon Mattern, “Trying to Wrap My Head Around the Digital Humanities, Part 2” Words in Space (June 23, 2010) (http://www.wordsinspace.net/wordpress/2010/06/23/trying-to-wrap-my-head-around-the-digital-humanities-part-2/)
    • Shannon Mattern, “Evaluating Multimodal Student Work” Words in Space (August 11, 2010) (http://www.wordsinspace.net/wordpress/2010/08/11/how-to-evaluate-multimodal-work/)
    • Steve Anderson, “Regeneration: Multimedia Genres and Emerging Scholarship” Institute for Multimedia Literacy (June 29, 2008) (http://iml.usc.edu/index.php/resources-articles/2008/06/29/resources-articles-6/)

    Mark Sample, “Building and Sharing When You’re Supposed to be Teaching”

    My pedagogy can increasingly be summed up in five words: “Make things. And share them.” I will talk briefly about my move toward assignments and projects in the undergraduate humanities classroom that emphasize making—as opposed to simply writing. I will also address the sharing aspect of these projects, which I see as a critical intervention into the enclosured experience most students have in higher education.

    Suggested readings:
    • “Student Contracts for Digital Projects” by Jeffrey McClurken (http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/student-contracts-for-digital-projects/23011)
    • “Integrating a Digital Project Into a Class: Deciding on a Project” by Amy Cavender (http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/integrating-a-digital-project-into-a-class-deciding-on-a-project/35475)
    • “Using a Graphic Illustrator in Higher Education: Comic Life” by Billie Hara (http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/using-a-graphic-illustrator-in-higher-education-comic-life/32060)

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