1.
Digital Humanities Tools
Across Disciplines
Anne Cong-Huyen
aconghuy@whittier.edu
April 8, 2017
“Cat on Mac,” by Wendy Seltzer via Flickr, CC-BY-2.0

2.
Agenda
Defining Our Terms
Undergraduate Learning & Research
How?
• Considerations
• Tool Parade!
Conclusion
• Creating a Digital Assignment

3.
The Digital Humanities
and/or
Digital Liberal Arts
Cats being instructed in the art of mouse-catching by an owl, Lombard School c. 1700. Public Domain image.

4.
Digital Liberal Arts
• First, Digital Liberal Arts (DLA) is inclusive of the entire arts
and sciences spectrum, from the humanities and performing
arts to the social sciences and the natural sciences…
• Second, DLA is explicitly residential and dialogical…DLA is
from the outset concerned with the integration of technology
into the everyday life…
• Third, DLA is as concerned with pedagogy as it is with
research, pursuing models of research and service based
teaching that characterize small liberal arts colleges today.
Rafael Alvarado, “Start Calling it the Digital Liberal Arts”
“How to beat his iPad game – sit on it” by Kelly Reaves via Flickr, CC-BY-ND-2.0.

5.
DIGITAL PEDAGOGY
Undergraduate Research & High-Impact Educational Practices
Cats in the Dormitory by Louis Wain, Public Domain Image

6.
Digital
Pedagogy
Promoting
undergrad
research
Develop
digital
literacies
Promote play,
collaboration,
and problem
solving
Foster
(digital)
citizenship
Adapted from Lisa Spiro’s “Case Studies of Digital Humanities Pedagogy” (2013)

7.
“…the closer we can bring our students to the real
sources of knowledge — the ancient texts, the
archaeological remains, the papyri and parchment —
and the real reward of scholarship — the joy of
producing a piece of work that one knows will be
discovered and read with interest and pleasure by
people we may never meet — the closer we can
bring students to the experience of being true
scholars, working beside other scholars, the more
enthusiasm we find.”
Christopher Blackwell and Thomas Martin,
“Technology, Collaboration, and Undergraduate
Research.”
“kitten” by Flickr user unbunt, CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0

8.
Design Thinking in Pedagogy
Risk Fail Learn Innovate
Adapted from Jennifer Sparrow

9.
Spectrum of Digital Liberal Arts
Classes
“Toe-in-
the-water” “Diving in”

10.
Getting Started
1. Start with an existing course
2. Let your teaching practices determine the tools
3. Teach a few (digital) things well
4. Scaffold everything
5. Integrate
Adapted from Ashley Sanders

11.
TOOL PARADE!
Tools to Test in Your Classes
http://anitaconchita.org/dh-tools-across-disciplines/
Cats Suggested as the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Public Domain image

12.
Developing Your Assignment
or Project
1. Learning objectives: what will students learn?
2. Feasibility: How much can you ask students to complete?
3. Main elements of the assignment: how will they learn it?
4. How will the assignment will be assessed: how will you know what
the students have learned?
5. Where will the assignment fit into the syllabus and your broader
course goals?
6. What tools, skills and resources do students (and you) need to
complete the assignment?
7. What kind of support will be provided, by the instructor and by
others (e.g. librarians, instructional technologists, and community
members)?
8. What challenges do you foresee in making the assignment? how
you might address them?
Adapted from Lisa Spiro’s “Case Studies of Digital Humanities Pedagogy” (2013)

13.
Contact info
Anne Cong-Huyen
aconghuy@whittier.edu
@anitaconchita