Digital Jumpstart Workshops - October 19 - 20, 2023
Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities and the Center for Teaching Excellence are proud to announce the Fall 2023 Digital Jumpstart Workshops, “Digital Technologies in the Classroom.”
“Digital Technologies in the Classroom” is an intensive two-day series of hybrid workshops, panels, and a keynote presentation, all aimed at equipping teachers at the University of Kansas to integrate the tools of the digital humanities into their classrooms and to think critically about them. All sessions will be held in-person in Watson Library.
“Digital Technologies in the Classroom” provides three levels of support for KU teachers who want to integrate digital humanities tools into their classrooms.
- Instruction. Workshops will cover a range of student-friendly technical tools, from text-mining with Voyant, to critical digital mapping, to AI literacy in the classroom, to creating digital archives, and more. See full schedule for details.
- Support. Any workshop attendee who uses a digital humanities tool in a 2024 KU classroom will have the support of the IDRH and the CTE as they teach the course and implement the tool. Support entails pre-assignment and mid-term consultations as well as a measure of troubleshooting.
- Funding to use digital humanities tools in the classroom. Through the generosity of the Center for Teaching Excellence, a selection of workshop attendees will receive $500 stipends to support implementation and evaluation of a digital humanities tool in their classroom in 2024 (spring, summer, or fall). Because of limited funding, applicants will be selected competitively.
Keynote presentation
Tanya Huelett, Senior Director of Educator Content Development at Facing History and Ourselves
"Difficult Histories in a Digital Format: The Challenges and Opportunities of Digital First Curriculum-Writing at Facing History and Ourselves."
| Thu, Oct 19th | ||
|---|---|---|
| 3:30 - 5:00 | Challenges and Opportunities of Geohumanities: Telling stories through digital maps and humanities data (Sylvia Fernández) | Watson 455 |
| Critical AI Literacy in the Classroom (Kathryn Conrad) | Watson 503 | |
| Fri, Oct 20th | ||
| 12:15 - 1:45 | An Introduction to Using Voyant in the Classroom (Randa El Khatib) | Watson 455 |
| Perusall Possibilities: Open Social Annotation (Elizabeth MacGonagle) | Watson 3rd Floor Computer Lab | |
| 2:00-3:30 | Omeka in the Classroom (Brian Rosenblum & Erin Wolfe) | Watson 503 |
| Composing Multimodal Essays with Scalar (Kaylen Dwyer) | Watson 455 | |
| Teaching Digital Humanities as Core to Expanding Indigenous Archives & Tribal Historic Preservation (Kent Blansett) | Watson 3rd Floor Computer Lab | |
| 3:30 | Reception | Watson 3 West |
| 4:00 - 5:00 | Keynote Address (Tanya Huelett) | Watson 3 West |
Digital Jumpstart Workshops
Full Schedule
Digital Jumpstart Course Funding
