4. “Why We Fight”
• Openness
• Collaboration
• Collegiality and Connectedness
• Diversity
• Experimentation
• Spiro, Lisa. “‘This Is Why We Fight’: Defining the
Values of the Digital Humanities.” In Debates in the
Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold.
University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/part/2
5.
Visualization from Voyant +
Humanist
Geoffrey Rockwell, “Growth of ‘collaboration’ and ‘collaborations’ across the Humanist
corpus” [1987-2007]. http://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=humanist
11. Digital Humanities Initiative
• Digital Scholarship Seminars
• Davis, Rebecca Frost, and Quinn Dombrowski.
Divided and Conquered: How Multivarious Isolation
Is Suppressing Digital Humanities Scholarship.
National Institute for Technology in Liberal
Education, Spring 2011.
http://www.nitle.org/live/files/36-divided-and-
conquered.
• Digital Humanities Commons
16. Maintaining Connections
• Strategic face-to-face meetings
o Sunoikisis Summer Curriculum Seminars
o Sunoikisis Undergraduate Research Symposium
• Regular meetings, even if virtual
o IONIC: inorganic chemists
• Social software
• Doing stuff together
• Shared culture, language, and experiences
18. DH and Liberal Education
Bryan Alexander &
Rebecca Frost Davis.
“Should Liberal Arts
Campuses Do Digital
Humanities? Process and
Products in the Small
College World.” In
Debates in the Digital
Humanities, ed. Matthew
K. Gold. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota
Press, 2012.
19. Challenges & Strategies
• Challenges
o Group Think
o Clarifying credit
o Communication at a distance
o Documenting work
• Tools & Strategies
o Write before braistorming out loud (KJ technique)
o Collaborative writing (wikis, blogs)
o Collaborators’ Bill of Rights
28. Challenges & Strategies
• Multiliteracies
• Team Skills
• Planning ahead
• Virtual organizations
• Cultural differences
• Requires more time
• Structures prevent
collaboration
29. Process Checklist for Integrating Digital
Humanities Projects into Courses
1. Connecting Course and Project
2. Scaffolding and Chunking
3. Collaborative Teaching
4. Logistics
http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/
process-checklist-for-integrating-digital-humanities-
projects-into-courses/
30. Teamwork VALUE Rubric
Teamwork is behaviors under the control of individual
team members (effort they put into team tasks, their
manner of interacting with others on team, and the
quantity and quality of contributions they make to
team discussions.)
http://www.aacu.org/value/rubrics/pdf/
teamwork.pdf
32. Networked Learning
• George Siemens. “Connectivism: A Learning Theory
for the Digital Age.” elearnspace, December 12,
2004.
• Knowledge ecology
• Learners create pathways
• Networks of learners & content
