Title:
Workshop Session # 1. Working with texts: tools for remote and collaborative text annotation, analysis, editing and publishing.
Description:
The purpose of the workshop is to familiarize participants with digital tools and platforms that support remote collaboration (both real-time and asynchronous) on annotating, analyzing, interpreting and editing textual resources. We will survey a series of mostly browser-based tools and platforms that are free to use and that can be adopted either as full online collaboration environments for student engagement or integrated selectively, on a modular basis, in a class in the form of group projects or individual assignments. More specifically, we will focus on tools for: 1) collaborative review, annotation, and close reading (Hypothes.is, Annotation Studio 2) quantitative analysis and distant reading (Voyant Tools) and 3)collaborative editing and publishing (Hack MD, Manifold Scholar) and we will discuss certain success stories in terms of student engagement and participation. After completing the workshop, participants will be familiar with a range of online tools for text review, editing and analysis and they will be able to assess and implement their use and integration into their courses depending on the learning objectives defined.
Pedagogical objectives:
Close reading, note-taking/commenting, developing arguments, building links between texts, group projects, building a sense of community through collaborative editing and analysis
Tools and topics covered:
Hypothes.is, Annotation Studio, Voyant Tools, Manifold Scholar, Hack MD.
Outline:
Introduction (5-10 mins), Part 1 (35-40 mins): Annotation tools, Part 2 (35-40 mins): Quantitative analysis, Part 3: Collaborative editing and publishing (35-40 mins)
Technical requirements:
Up-to-date browser (Chrome, Firefox preferred), access to Zoom
Thursday, August 13, 2 pm to 4 pm
Title:
Workshop Session #2: Beyond the text: teaching with digital archives, collections, and multimodal materials in class
Description:
The proliferation and accessibility of web-based media and creative technologies has diversified the digital storytelling tools available to creators and educators from simple blogs to elaborate interactive websites and applications. At the same time, due to the global public health crisis, libraries, museums and other cultural institutions are increasingly offering their materials as streaming content or they are making part of their collections publicly available. What then, are some of the best ways to use, explore and integrate this media-rich content that is available in different digital formats (e.g. museum collections, oral history archives, video, documentaries, performances and time-based media) into a humanities class? In this workshop we will use examples of open access datasets, open educational resources and digital/interactive resources to discuss best practices in integrating them in class content, projects, and assignments. Starting with simple ways of embedding media content in websites and blogging platforms such as WordPress we will move on to discuss the basics of structuring, describing and visualizing cultural data and digital collections including metadata standards. In the last part of the workshop we will examine two digital platforms that support building media-rich collections, exhibitions and publications and that have been specifically developed for humanities projects: Omeka (Omeka Classic/Omeka S) and Scalar). As a way of getting familiar with the basics of both platforms we will build, in real time, a simple collection/exhibition based on certain examples and datasets. The workshop will familiarize participants with the basics of organizing, structuring media-rich items and collections and will enable them to conceptualize and create teaching modules based on online collections and diverse media.
Pedagogical objectives:
Drawing connections between concepts and topics in a historical context, critical and analytical engagement, data and media literacy, ability to create multimodal narratives, digital storytelling skills
Tools and topics covered:
WordPress / CUNY Commons, Palladio, Rawgraphs, Omeka Classic, Omeka S, Scalar, metadata standards, Dublin Core.
Outline:
Introduction (5-10 mins), Part 1 (35-40 mins): Working with data, Part 2 (35-40 mins): Embedding media, Part 3: Telling stories with digital collections (Omeka, Scalar) (35-40 mins)
Technical requirements:
Up-to-date browser (Chrome, Firefox preferred), access to Zoom
Tuesday, August 18, 10 am to 12 pm
Title:
Workshop Session #3. The city in the class, part A: mapping and teaching with urban and spatial data
Description:
As digital map-making tools are getting increasingly ubiquitous their use and critical assessment in policy making, research and pedagogy is more important than ever, especially in the ways they tend to reproduce established patterns of urban inequalities, dispossession, and environmental racism. In this workshop we will use open urban and spatio-temporal datasets that capture different contemporary and historical aspects of urban environments to explore different tools and scales of creating and using spatial stories in a class environment. We will focus on browser-based tools such as Story Maps, StoryMap.js, Timeline.js and Timemapper. At the end of the workshop we will review some projects and cases of “radical cartography” that challenge established map-making notions and practices and that can help students engage critically with dominant narratives and representations of urban and historic environments.
Pedagogical objectives:
critical and analytical engagement, data and media literacy, ability to create multimodal narratives, digital storytelling skills, spatial thinking.
Tools and topics covered:
StoryMap.js, Timeline.js, Timemapper, Omeka + Neatline, Omeka S + StoryMap.js
Outline:
Introduction (5-10 mins), Part 1 (35-40 mins): Working with spatio-temporal data, Part 2 (35-40 mins): Building timelines, Part 3: (Un)making maps (35-40 mins)
Technical requirements:
Up-to-date browser (Chrome, Firefox preferred), access to Zoom
Tuesday, August 18, 2 pm to 4 pm.
Title:
Workshop Session #4: The city in the class, part B: digital humanities tools for crisis response, mobilization, and support
Description:
2020 finds both faculty and students having to cope with an unprecedented global health crisis while, at the same time, mobilizing to create and sustain groups and initiatives of protest, anti-racist action, care, support, and solidarity on city streets. In this workshop will examine digital tools and public humanities projects that showcase how some of these crisis responses and street experiences, narratives and testimonies can be used in online, hybrid or on-campus class environments and channelled into praxis and pedagogy that reflect the sense of urgency of our time.
Pedagogical objectives:
critical engagement, data and media literacy, enabling students create projects that can have a public impact, engagement in public discourse, collaborative, social learning
Tools and topics covered:
Omeka, WordPress, Mukurtu, CartoDB, OpenStreeMap, participatory mapping, public humanities
Outline:
Introduction (5-10 mins), Part 1 (35-40 mins): Documenting, Part 2 (35-40 mins): Mobilizing, Part 3: Review of projects (35-40 mins)
Technical requirements:
Up-to-date browser (Chrome, Firefox preferred), access to Zoom
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