Dear THATCampers,

Thank you for such a wonderful THATCamp event!

You can find a folder with all notes that were created during THATCamp #digped 2014 here.

Please please please fill out this feedback sheet for us!

We had a great time, and enjoyed meeting you all! Thanks once again for a wonderful (un)conference. (And fill out the feedback form. )

by Kate Ogden

If you still need sessions, Adeline, I could propose a “Practicum” session in which attendees could share ideas on their use of digital humanities in the classroom and in student assignments. I’d start with my “Art of New Jersey” website, which is now 11 years old. I’d love to get newer ideas from others on how they’re using DH in the classroom and in student assignments. I want to attend Rodger’s session on Blogs, so please don’t schedule us at the same time!

By Diane Harris Cline
Have you used map assignments? Have you tried group work, collaboration, or “crowd-sourcing” with students? If so, please share your tips and tricks. I can imagine using it for complicated plots in novels or for tracking history over time…. what have you done that we can steal/mimic/emulate? I have not, but want to, and am willing to host this conversation!support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/2584135?hl=en

By Rodger Jackson 

I’ve seen my colleagues use blogs in their classrooms and I’ve been tempted to try myself. I would love a session in which people laid out their experiences: their best practices, their favorite blog creation software, how they’ve used them in the courses, what has was successful, what didn’t work, and whether students would continue with these after their courses.

Dear THATCampers,

We’re looking forward to seeing you this morning!

By Amanda Ann Klein (@amandaannklein)

Over the past few years I’ve begun to use class blogs and Twitter in the classroom, which encourage multilevel verbal and written engagement with the course materials. What I especially like about these digital tools is that they don’t replace our face-to-face meetings, they enhanceand invigorate them. Tara McPherson argues that the digital humanities are producing a new breed of humanist: the multimodal scholar. Multimodal scholars believe that “hands-on engagement with digital forms reorients the scholarly imagination” and “understand their arguments and their objects of study differently, even better, when they approach them through multiple modalities and emergent and interconnected forms of literacy.” Thus for me the intersection of digital humanities and media studies lies in the creation of, to borrow McPherson’s term, “multimodal students,” who use digital learning tools like class blogs and Twitter feeds to better study the media that surrounds them.

While I found Twitter easy to use and track with simple hashtags in my smaller seminars, when I used Twitter is my 116-student Introduction to Film classroom, it became unwieldy. Our hashtag feed was cluttered with spam, many student tweets never showed up in the feed (even though they were using the hashtag properly) and it was incredibly time consuming to count each student’s tweets, log them, and archive them. As far as I know, there is no tool that streamlines this process for instructors using Twitter in the classroom. I know nothing about coding or apps, so I would like help in creating/building an app for Twitter in the classroom (that pulls tweets with a hashtag, alphabetizes them, removes all spam and archives the tweets).

Works cited: McPherson, Tara. “Introduction: Media Studies and the Digital Humanities.” Cinema Journal 48.2 (2009): 119-123

Dear THATCampers,

We’re looking forward to seeing you next week in Atlantic City!

• Our Travel page has been updated with the downloadable Carnegie Center Parking Permit (if you will have a vehicle at THATCamp), and directions from the Tropicana Casino to the Carnegie. The Carnegie is about a 20 minute walk from the Tropicana.
• Remember, Day 2 of the THATCamp will be made up of your proposals, and your voting on these proposals the morning of June 18!  We already have some great proposals in on Digital Badges, Access and Support issues in digital pedagogy, Art and Craft in the DH classroom, and a call for DH syllabi. Please add proposals of your own (you are free to add more than one proposal), and tweet about it using our conference hashtag, #thatcamp #digped.
• Unfortunately, Roopika Risam will be unable to give the Interteaching workshop, so our Bootcamp schedule for June 17 has been shuffled around a little. Please keep your eye on the schedule page for any and all updates!

Safe travels, and we look forward to seeing you soon!

THATCamp Digital Pedagogy

Dear THATCampers,

THATCamp Digital Pedagogy will be held at the beautiful Carnegie Library in Atlantic City June 17 and 18, 2014. Join us to learn and share more about digital pedagogy! Our bootcamps on June 17 will include workshops on TEI, Python, E-Portfolios, Wikipedia, Geospatial Mapping Tools, Computational Textual Analysis, E-Portfolios and Digital Role Playing Games.

We have secured room rates of $70/night + tax at the Tropicana Casino and Resort for the conference.

Due to overwhelming demand (we have already fifty registrants as of November 2013), we have increased the participant limit to 80 people. If you are new to digital pedagogy and/or are from Richard Stockton College, please sign up! THATCamp Digital Pedagogy 2014 is sponsored by DH@Stockton, the digital humanities center at Richard Stockton College, and the School of Arts and Humanities at Richard Stockton College.