Category Archives: Session Proposals

Talk-Make Crash Course: Intellectual Property and Using Images for Classes, Blogs, and Websites

Posted on August 30, 2014 by Cynthia Kristan-Graham

Photographs, drawings, and videos can enhance your digital persona. Unless these images and media are personal, though, this intellectual property should be copyright free or available to use with attribution (contrary to popular belief and usage, ArtStor images do not … Continue reading →

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Talk session: Train your data!

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Mary Alexander

Create and organize your or your class research data to share with others or provide a foundation for visualizations and other dh projects.  Metadata records are surrogates of text, images, notated music, audio files and more!  Enhance text by producing … Continue reading →

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Talk Session: The Creative and Interpretive Potential of Digital Mapping

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Pearce Durst

I would like to lead a discussion on why we use digital maps. I will share some of the ways that I am using maps in my research, specifically by creating a collaborative and interactive activity that employs Google Maps … Continue reading →

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Crash Course in Python

Posted on August 28, 2014 by Holland Hopson

I’d love a crash course in Python. Many of my students seem more likely to have Python skills than other programming language skills. Too bad I don’t! Time to fix this problem. Let’s hack at Python together and try to … Continue reading →

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Makerspaces

Posted on August 28, 2014 by Holland Hopson

I’d like to propose a talk session about makerspaces on our campuses and in our communities. I’m part of a group working to establish a makerspace on the UA Tuscaloosa campus. I’ll share information about our project and would love … Continue reading →

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Proposal for Talk Session: Where does Alabama stand in digital education?

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Wade Kwon

Alabama has great potential when it comes to education, but lags behind other states in execution and results. What should we do right now to improve digital access to classes and instructors? What should we stop doing? Consultant Wade Kwon … Continue reading →

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A New Tool for Teaching with Video Multimedia

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Scott Brande

Evolving “best practices” for classroom teaching emphasize engaging students, including cognitive breaks, and guiding interactive responses and peer discussion. Video can be a powerful driving for student learning. We (Brande and Arslan) have developed for our teaching, EZSnips, an online … Continue reading →

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Proposal for Talk Session: Taking Digital Humanities Projects to ‘Live Publics’

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Alex Beringer

Digital Humanities projects provide an array of new ways for students to present their work to “live publics” who will read and experience it firsthand. Web design platforms like Wix, Squarespace, and WordPress make it exceedingly easy to broadcast student … Continue reading →

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Campus Collaborations in Digital Humanities (Talk Session)

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Heather Martin

Faculty have been using technology in humanities teaching and scholarship long before the “digital humanities” became ubiquitous. However, at many universities, faculty and staff work on digital humanities projects in silos. People in these silos have ideas, expertise, and resources … Continue reading →

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