1#162bd42013-04-30T15:36:18-07:00Digital Humanities Pedagogical Projects49plain143242016-05-28T11:13:38-07:00 The digital humanities offer critical tools for connecting students to historical investigation and racial formation. As a professor of Chican@ Studies at UCLA, my courses build upon an interdisciplinary list of readings and multimedia sources.
The projects highlighted here examine the ways race and ethnicity are embedded in 21st century technologies. Each seeks to build students' digital literacy through project-based learning activities, including collaborative maps, blogs, and digital projection. Through critical reflection and building open-access research projects, students are encouraged to become active agents in the digital landscape.
My training at the Institute for Media Literacy at the USC Cinema School serves as a foundation to this work. Graduate coursework included:
Teaching with Digital Media
Digital Pedagogies
Digital Media Tools and Tactics
I have continued to build my digital literacy through GIS training at Yale and UCLA, participating in THATCamp, and presenting on the uses of digital media in the classroom at nationally recognized venues, such as the American Studies Association, the National Council on Public History, and the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. In doing so, I seek to guide students through the process of writing, organizing, and sharing public facing projects.
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