10th Annual Digital Pedagogy Institute
ByLearn more about the innovative use of digital technologies to enhance and transform undergraduate and graduate teaching at the Digital Pedagogy Institute, which will be held online from August 13-15, 2024.
Public Engagement
Your First Crowdsourcing Project: A Webinar with FromThePage
ByJoin Ben and Sara Brumfield of FromThePage as they step you through your first crowdsourcing project. The session covers selecting material, finding volunteers, developing transcription conventions, keeping volunteers engaged, and what to do with your transcriptions once you’re done.
Digital Editions and Collections: An Archivist’s Point of View
ByThis recorded interview showcases archivists’ viewpoints on digitizing initiatives, particular in regard to issues of preservation, access, institutional partnerships and collaborations, and community engagement. It also provides an alternative point of entry for thinking about creating digital editions and working with digital materials. One of the main goals of this conversation is to identify sites of shared vision and commitment for the many different practitioners working in the ecosystem of digitizations, digital collections, and digital editions, centering an archivist’s point of view on how digital partnerships and collaborations can be fruitful for all parties.
Editions in the Classroom: Approaches to Engaging Students and Teachers
ByAre you thinking about how your edition could be used by students or teachers, but you’re unsure how to plan for or cultivate these audiences? Try this 60-minute recorded eLabs webinar from May 31, 2024 that explores different approaches to engaging teachers, as well as students of all ages.
DEFCON Speaker Series: Latina/o/e Digital Humanities as Places of Joy and Querencia for Students
ByThis DEFCON Speaker Series presentation argues for the need to center Latina/o/e DH projects on students’ own cultural, community (Yosso, 2005), and linguistic wealth. Dr. Elena Foulis describes the development of student projects that pay attention to the process of constructing, engaging, and critically reflecting on our personal commitments to build accessible, multilingual archives that center on the community’s knowledge.
Ethical Community Archiving: Tools for Meaningful Partnerships
ByDrawing from the experiences of the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Program, this workshop will explore strategies for collaborating with individuals and community organizations to ethically digitize, preserve, and disseminate historical materials. Through a lens of care and post-custodial approaches, the program will share its methodologies for identifying and making these historical resources accessible.
Recovery Hub Tech Hours: Engaging Students in Recovery Work Panel
ByAre you interested in learning more about how to involve students in your editing and recovery work? Join the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers for a Zoom panel on “Engaging Students in Recovery Work.”
Recovery Hub Tech Hours: Using Digital Archives in the Classroom Panel
ByAre you interested in learning more about how to incorporate your editing and recovery work in the classroom environment? Join the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers for a Zoom panel on “Using Digital Archives in the Classroom.”
Critical Toolkits for Crowdsourcing and Community Engagement: A Free, Virtual Workshop
ByAre you interested in developing a digital project for crowdsourcing and community engagement? Join eLaboratories for a free, virtual 90-minute workshop that explores the process of organizing programs and digital projects that invite school and community groups to help enrich digitized archives?
A Discussion on the Recovery Publishing Ecosystem at Arte Público Press
ByDrs. Gabriela Baeza Ventura and Carolina Villarroel discuss the ecosystem of a program at Arte Público Press called Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (“Recovery”), which is “an international program to locate, preserve and disseminate Hispanic culture of the United States in its written form since colonial times until 1960.”