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Brian Norberg / brian.norberg@marist.edu / Digital Technologies Librarian
Work with contemporary info like social media
Help students find new ways to communicate Scholarship
Engage the public and research community
Deconstructing tech
When doing digital projects it's best to ask what students can't do to determine what they can do. Students can't:
What Teachers can do to scaffold their students' digital work
Prepare for imperfect work (your expectations should be similar to those for traditional assignments)
Ask not what students can do for you...
Have defined learning outcomes for digital aspects
Create guidelines and, if possible, documentation
Setting digital ground rules
Type of digital projects
Lessons (e.g. podcasts, text analysis projects, geospatial projects) - teacher needs to know a little bit about the digital method explored, decide on tools to use, and develop structured activities to build up to final project
Replace a Paper (e.g. multimedia essays, timelines, maps) - instead of putting materials in an essay, student puts knowledge into another medium; teacher must decide on possible media and grading guidelines
Examples: Race and Ethnicity in Advertising (Duke Library) & Project Vox
The CMSs: Omeka, Wordpress
Example: Adapt and Survive & The Haka
Digital storytelling
Examples: Games of Thrones & City Plaza Solidarity Space (go to digital stories tab)
Spatial-based storytelling
Cloud-based software that is straightforward to use: data is rendered from a Google Spreadsheet
Examples: Republican Run-Up & ADAPT (go to digital stories tab)
Temporal-based storytelling
Examples: Global Ecological Solutions Map
Spatial analysis
Voyant Tools is a web-based text reading and analysis environment.
Work with your own corpus or practice on one of the included corpuses
Does work frequency, co-occurrence, word clouds, topic models, etc.; allows exporting of graphs and iframes
Cloud-based application that pairs well with a free text repository like Project Gutenberg
Example: A Republic of Emails
Text analysis
Don’t let the fancy technology lure you in.
Select the technology that best fits:
Scope is the key
Brian Norberg / brian.norberg@marist.edu / Digital Technologies Librarian