This presentation outlines the origins and theory linked to a case study built around a segmented, semester long learning assignment whereby students utilize archival resources to critically analyze an EPA Superfund site in their local community. This project highlights the overlap between social, political, and economic challenges that shape urban environmental concern.

1. Space, Place, and Digital Tools
Creating A Semester Long Digital Assignment
A presentation at the 55th Annual Florida Conference of Historians
Julian C. Chambliss
Chair and Associate Professor, Department of History
Mike Gunter, Jr.
Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of International Relations
Rollins College

2. HOW DID
WE GET
HERE?

3. A FOCUS ON COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT ALLOWS
FIGURES SUCH AS
ZORA NEALE HURSTON
TO BECOME THE
FOUNDATION FOR
COMMUNITY BASED
DIGITAL PEDAGOGICAL
PROJECTS.

5. DIGITAL PROJECTS
GENERATE EXHIBITS

6. ON DISPLAY AT THE JACKSONVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY

9. GENERATING TOOLS TO
FURTHER ENHANCE
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

10. A CASE STUDY ON
DESIGNING PEDAGOGY

11. TEACH-IN ON POLLUTION
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, 1970

12. USING THE
THIRDSIGHT
HISTORY
MODEL

13. INSPIRED BY ASSOCIATED COLLEGES
OF THE SOUTH (ACS) GRANT

14. AIMED AT LEAP
LEARNING OUTCOMES:-
INQUIRY & ANAYLSIS,
CRITICAL THINKING,
INFORMATION LITERACY
AND WRITTEN
COMMUNICATION

15. PERHAPS A BETTER QUESTION
IS HOW WILL DIGITAL
PEDAOGOGY INTERSECT WITH
DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP?

16. POTENTIAL“to experience,
read, and follow
an argument
about a
historical
problem…”
Daniel J. Cohen et al., “Interchange:
The Promise of Digital History,” The
Journal of American History 95, no. 2
(September 1, 2008): 454.

18. A WAY TO EXPLAIN THE
HISTORY ENGINE
PROCESS!

19. A SEMESTER LONG
ASSIGNMENT

20. A SEMESTER LONG
ASSIGNMENT

21. OUTCOMES
THIS ASSIGNMENT HAS THE
POTENTIAL TO DEEPLY
ENGAGE STUDENTS WITH
UNDERSTANDING OF BOTH
HISTORY AND POLICY
AROUND URBAN
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES.

22. THANK YOU
Dr. Julian C. Chambliss
Rollins College
jchambliss@rollins.edu
Twitter: @JulianChambliss
www.julianchambliss.com