Everything is Cool When You're Part of a Team
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This document summarizes Rebecca Frost Davis's presentation on collaboration in digital humanities. It discusses how collaboration fosters community, creative thinking, and hybridization of skills and perspectives. It also addresses challenges like groupthink, communication issues, and ensuring credit and provides strategies for overcoming them, such as using collaborative writing tools and establishing group norms.
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- 1. Everything is Cool When You’re Part of a Team Rebecca Frost Davis THATCamp DHCollaborate 2014
- 2. Slides and References • http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/ • Twitter: @frostdavis • #THATCamp • #dhcoll14
- 3. The Lego Movie (2014) http://youtu.be/vx5n21zHPm8
- 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
- 6. A Brief History . . .
- 7. MA & PhD, Classical Studies
- 8. Sunoikisis
- 9. Associated Colleges of the South
- 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
- 13. Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts Models & Experiments Matt Gold Kathy Harris Jentery Sayers Rebecca Davis MLA 2012
- 14. Why do we collaborate?
- 15. COMMUNITY
- 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
- 20. AGGREGATION
- 22. Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities General Editors Curator Contributor User User Contributor Curator Curator Advisory Board Designers Press
- 23. Challenges • Organization • Participation • Quality • Stilfe creativity?
- 24. Strategies • Events drive participation (DHCommons) • Intrinsic Motivation • Community & Connectedness • Standardization, templates, models • Creative partnerships o DHCommons & CenterNet o DiRT, Commons in a Box, DHCommons • Need
- 25. HYBRIDIZATION
- 26. Belbin Team Roles • Plant • Specialist • Monitor-Evaluator • http:// www.improvingteams.c om/using-the-nine- belbin-team-roles-for- team-development/ • Resource Investigator • Team Worker • Coordinator • Shaper • Implementer • Completer-Finisher
- 27. Enduring Women
- 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
- 31. SOCIAL LEARNING
- 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
- 36. Keyword