Category Archives: Session: Talk

Accessibility and the Digital Humanities

Posted on September 2, 2014 by Melissa Fortson Green

Last year, I presented an Alabama Digital Humanities Center brown bag on accessibility and its impact on digital resources and practices. Here’s a description: How can we broaden our understanding of the ways that people use digital resources by considering … Continue reading →

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Talk Session-Rethinking the Relationship Between Writing and Civic Education in an Age of “Mass Self-Communication”

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Chris Minnix

How do the increased opportunities for public participation and engagement brought about by digital composing technologies shape the way we teach writing? The rise of what Manuel Castells has called “mass self-communication” technologies–open-access web publishing platforms, social networking technology, curation … Continue reading →

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Digital Social Editions and Interdisciplinary Communities

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Anamaria Santiago

This topic may be rudimentary, but I am interested in having a conversation about how technology can facilitate collaborative narrative or “social editions” of texts and how these texts can enhance a curriculum. A prime example of socially-edited text would … Continue reading →

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Talk Session: THAT Spatial Turn

Posted on August 31, 2014 by Cynthia Kristan-Graham

The Spatial Turn continues to transform understandings of space and human activity in many contexts, from broad strokes to nuances. Mapping and visualization tools facilitate the analysis of movement and phenomena in two and three dimensions, and from many perspectives, … Continue reading →

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Talk session: Wikipedia and oppression

Posted on August 30, 2014 by Grace Kaletski

I’m interested in having a discussion about bias and standards in Wikipedia’s editorial process, especially who decides and how is it decided what constitutes “worthy” sources of knowledge or if a subject is important enough to “deserve” an article. One … 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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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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