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Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom: A Practical Introduction for Teachers, Lecturers, and StudentsMain MenuAboutIntroductionChapter 1: Overcoming ResistanceChapter 2: Finding, Evaluating, and Using Digital ResourcesChapter 3: Ensuring AccessibilityChapter 4: Designing SyllabiChapter 5: Planning Classroom ActivitiesChapter 6: Managing Classroom ActivitiesChapter 7: Creating Digital AssignmentsChapter 8: Evaluating Student WorkChapter 9: Teaching Graduate StudentsChapter 10: Finding Internal Support CommunitiesChapter 11: Finding External Support CommunitiesChapter 12: Connecting to Your ResearchHow this Web Companion Was BuiltSample Student WorkA set of sample DH student assignmentsAssignment SetsSix sample assignment sheets with matching rubrics for evaluationClaire Battershill219d300ac2e16b0bbebf18166766c3a7a7c6040dShawna Ross41a2c3c15846ab4f08f63845489efa7b361c9c41
Classroom Activity Sets
12016-07-22T07:48:23-07:00Shawna Ross41a2c3c15846ab4f08f63845489efa7b361c9c41997717View and download instructions and tutorials for classroom activities.plain2016-09-24T13:28:05-07:00Shawna Ross41a2c3c15846ab4f08f63845489efa7b361c9c41Successfully incorporating digital humanities activities in the classroom requires careful preparation. You not only have to design the activity, but also have to familiarize yourself with the tool, ensure that you have access to the right equipment, provide instructional materials for your students, and know where to find help or documentation in case you run into problems. But because DH activities are fun, productive, and memorable, they are well worth the effort.
To jumpstart your digital pedagogy, we have provided sample sets of the materials you need. Each set below features a full description of the activity (including what kinds of preparation is required, as well as tips for exploring the software further), a prompt that you give to your students (it contains an overview of the steps the students will take, as well as an explanation of the purpose of the activity), and a slideshow tutorial (which you can download as either a PowerPoint or a Keynote file). The tutorial is pitched to a general audience, so you can use it yourself if you are not familiar with the technology, as well as choose whether or not to distribute it to students.
In this activity, students learn how to use a smartphone application to take high-quality images of physical texts and generate plain-text (OCR) from them.
In this activity, students use Voyant, a simple, in-browser, most-frequent-word analysis visualizer to investigate the thematic and grammatical structure of a course text.