Category Archives: Teaching

Turning “Online Learning” into “Digital Humanities”

I’d like to propose a general discussion session about teaching online and hybrid classes that are not explicitly about DH but that would be enriched through incorporating DH approaches and methodology. I taught my first fully online class–a GEC survey … Continue reading

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Capturing and Building Visual Fluency into Ohio State’s Humanities Curriculum

I am not proposing a game of Capture the Flag where those of us who teach in the Humanities use strategy and guile to avoid being imprisoned by old methodologies.  Instead, I am proposing a session where we talk about … Continue reading

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Using online virtual envornments, such as Second Life, in academia.

This is a discussion session about the use of virtual realities (simulated realities as some call them) in academics – from teaching and meetings to collaborations, and any other ideas and applications. The Ohio State University already has its own island … Continue reading

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What Do We Want for E-Books?

Last year e-book sales on Amazon outstripped “dead tree” book sales. Currently, digital textbooks are only about 2.5% of the $5.5 billion annual market in new textbook sales, but in three years it’s expected to be nearly 20%. The Kindles … Continue reading

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Game Based Learning

Topics: using video games to teach, what’s taught in game and out of game, discussions or assignments & online affinity spaces and how to create them. I am the coordinator for a video game project funded by the NEH. (meet-the-earthworks-builders.posterous.com/) This … Continue reading

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DH and pedagogy (resources)

Lots of you have expressed an interest in talking about DH in the classroom and teaching with digital media. For a straight ‘teaching with digital media’ discussion, there are some other venues on campus (for example, check out Innovate, the … Continue reading

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