Spring 2017 – Digital Scholarship Summer Fellows 2016

Readings and Activities

Dates listed are the weekly check-ins. Readings are to be completed by the date listed so they may be discussed at the weekly check-ins.

1/23

No readings

1/30

This Paragraph Was Written Before the World Went to Shit by Jesse Stommel

Digital Humanities: The Most Exciting Field You’ve Never Heard Of by William Fenton

2/6

The Digital in the Humanities: An Interview with Jessica Marie Johnson

Be prepared to discuss what digital tool you are going to create a tutorial for.

2/13

Hacktivism, Live Streaming, and Crisis: Toward a Truly Big-Tent Digital Humanities by Elizabeth Losh

Summer 2017 research proposal is due 2/19

2/20

How the Digital Humanities are using Slack to support and build a geographically dispersed intellectual community by Amanda Visconti

2/27

Interviews for #dssf17 happen this week. Review #dssf17 applications.

3/6

Open Source in Open Access Environments: Choices and Necessities by Anne B. McGrail

Blog post #1 due

3/13

No weekly check-in

No readings (Spring Break)

3/20

Making Space: Feminist DH and a Room of One’s Own by Kim Brillante Knight

Be prepared to present your plan for your digital tool tutorial.

3/27

Digital tool tutorial workshop – 3/27, 1pm-1:30pm

4/3

Feminist Data Visualization, or, the Shape of History by Lauren Klein

4/10

Present your first draft of your digital tool tutorial

4/17

Participate in #dayofdh this week!

Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon on Monday, 4/17 (1pm-2pm)

Instructional Design workshop on Wednesday, 4/19 (1pm-1:30pm)

4/24

The Differences Between Digital Humanities and Digital History by Stephen Robertson

5/1

No readings. Be prepared to present your digital tool tutorial.

Blog Posts

Blog Post #1 – Due 3/6

The assumption that college students are “digital natives,” and therefore fluent in the use of technology and its impact on their lives, is problematic. Increasingly, higher education institutions are promoting digital literacy as a skill that students need to succeed in the classroom and in the marketplace. What are digital skills that you feel students should learn while in college? Are there best practices you would suggest to teach and reinforce these skills in the classroom? When thinking about digital literacy, consider not only the research-focused work you do as digital fellows, but also broader concepts like privacy on the Internet, establishing an online presence, and the “fake news” phenomenon.

Blog Post #2 – Due 4/19

This year’s Day of Digital Humanities is Thursday, April 20. This project started a few years ago to document the work that digital humanists do on a “normal” day. It’s grown into a sort of advocacy day for the work of digital humanists. You can see the website here: http://dayofdh2017.linhd.es/

What I’d like to do is collect some thoughts of various Gettysburg College students, faculty, and staff about DH, and then post them on the library’s website. If you would be willing to write a short piece related to your thoughts and/or work with the digital humanities, that would be great! There are two options I will propose, but if you’re interested, you could talk about conferences/workshops you’ve attended, projects you’ve worked on, a digital project you think is really cool, etc. You can be as brief or wordy as you choose.

Define Digital Humanities – “Digital humanities is …”
How do the digital humanities support/inform your teaching and/or research?

Digital Tool Tutorial (Due 5/1/17)

Fellows will create a digital tool tutorial or guide that shows how to effectively use a tool in a digital scholarship project. Depending on the scope of the tool selected, either a general overview can be provided, or assistance with a specific aspect of the tool can be covered. The cohort of Fellows may elect to collaborate on one digital tool to create a more comprehensive guide.

Fellows are encouraged to create guides that provide a level of interactivity or multimedia engagement, such as videos or websites. Educational Technology can assist with supporting the creation of these guides.