tl;dr: I gave a talk about digital pedagogy. Today I want to share a talk. That’s not all that unusual, as I’ve been in the habit of posting such presentations since I began blogging here in 2009. What’s unusual about this one—at least for me—is that it’s a talk that evolved as I gave it … Continue reading Assignments and Architecture: Pedagogy in the Digital Age
I was thrilled to learn this summer that I would be teaching again in the fall. Both the English department (where I've taught previously) and the Library (where I'm a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow) had supported the idea during the previous year, but this is the first that we've been able to make it work out. … Continue reading Introduction to Digital Humanities
For the last several years, I have been interested in representing time and space visually in the context of literature courses. During my final year as a graduate student, I was a fellow in Emory's Center for Interactive Teaching. There, I had the freedom to spend many hours exploring several web widgets for doing just … Continue reading Assignment: The “American Century” Geospatial Timeline
I just wanted to post a quick note in a follow-up to last week's post about my Annotated Zotero Group Bibliography assignment. I've finished the assignment, which you can see below. I appreciated all of the comments that I received on the blog and on Twitter about the initial draft. I especially drew ideas from … Continue reading Final Version of the Annotated Zotero Group Bibliography
In the last few years of teaching, I have been persuaded by a few friends to include annotated bibliographies as assignments in some of my classes. Such an assignment gets students experience with some of the important steps of literary scholarship: finding secondary criticism and digesting it. While I could just assign the standard end-of-term … Continue reading Annotated Zotero Group Bibliography Assignment