Before the workshop begins:  Read through A Companion to Digital Humanities (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004) edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens and John Unsworth (some of the chapters in this collection will also be on the schedule for the presenters below).

Please use this Blackboard link for discussions of all the project sessions.  When you log into Blackboard, you will find our workshop listed under "Organizations in which you are Participating."  You will then be able to take part in our ongoing conversations on that discussion board.

Fall 2007

7 September, Charles Evans, project director, “Introduction and Project Overview”; discussion of A Companion to Digital Humanities 
Reading:  Introduction and Chapter 10 from A Companion to Digital Humanities
Agenda:

• Background to the project (Spring 1998, Fall 1999 CCHA, Dogwood grants)
• Goals of the workshop from the grant summary
• Explain the Visiting Scholars; how we can prepare for the scholars
• Notes on the readings in the course
• Notes on participant projects (projects can take a number of forms: detailed ideas for course revision to include new-format humanities materials; a proposal to undertake a digital humanities project based on one of the models examined in the workshop; ideas for disseminating workshop models and ideas to a broader college audience; suggestions for new classroom techniques for teaching with digital humanities materials.)
• Project evaluation (Yitna Firyiwek)
• Discussion of today's reading
• Blackboard use
• Introductions (everyone will have about five minutes to introduce themselves and talk about their ideas for a "project")

21 September, Peggy Weissinger, Educational Assessment & Evaluation, Georgetown University School of Medicine (also former director of the Extended Learning Insttitute at NVCC), “Teaching and Learning in a Digitized Environment”
Reading:  Selections from Terry Freedman, ed., Coming of Age: An Introduction to New World Wide Web (2006)  (*.pdf), particularly "Effective E-Learning through Collaboration" by Steve Lee and Miles Berry, pp 19-24.

• Link to her Powerpoint presentation
• Link to her presentation as a "web archive" file (You must open with Internet Explorer.)

19 October, Stuart Moulthrop, Professor of Information Arts and Technologies at the University of Baltimore, “Exploring the Limit(less) Bounds of Hypermedia Expression”
Reading:  Stuart Moulthrop home page, especially “Pax, An Instrument”; “After the Last Generation: Rethinking Scholarship in the Days of Serious Play”; “What the Geeks Know: Hypertext and the Problem of Literacy.”   Also, chapter 29 in A Companion to Digital Humanities, "Speculative Computing:  Aesthetic Provocations in Humanities Computing" by Johanna Drucker and Bethany Nowviskie.

• Link to his talk, Releasing Content
• Link to the presentation, Secondary Literacy

26 October, Terri Whitney and Joe Modugno, Professors of English at North Shore Community College, “Hawthorne in Salem and the Idea of ‘Place’ in Cyberspace”
Reading:  Hawthorne in Salem.  Also, chapter 31 in A Companion to Digital Humanities, "Designing Sustainable Projects and Publications" by Daniel Pitti

2 November, Roy Rosenzweig died on 11 October.  He had been the Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of History & New Media and Director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.  He was one of the pioneers in the study and use of new, digital media and had agreed to present on the topic of “Doing Digital History?”  Take a moment and look through some of his work.
Reading:  Roy Rosenzweig home page, especially “Scarcity or Abundance: Preserving the Past in a Digital Era,” American Historical Review (June 2003), and “Web of Lies? Historical Knowledge on the Internet,” First Monday 10 (December 2005), co-author.

16 November, Matt Kirschenbaum, Associate Professor of English and Associate
Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland, “The Word as Image”
Reading:  Matt Kirschenbaum home page, chapter 34 in A Companion to Digital Humanities, "So the Colors Cover the Wires:  Interface, Aesthetics and Usability" by Matt Kirschenbaum and chapter 18 in A Companion to Digital Humanities, "Electronic Texts:  Audiences and Purposes" by Perry Willett.

30 November, T. Mills Kelly, Associate Professor of History and Associate Director for the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, “Online Archives as a New Humanities Experience”
Reading:  the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank; The September 11 Digital Archive; Making the History of 1989: Sources and Narratives on the Fall of Communism; “Remaking Liberal Education: The Challenges of New Media,” Academe (January-February 2003), 28-31; “Also, chapter 15 in A Companion to Digital Humanities, "Databases" by Stephen Ramsay.

7 December, Technology Demonstration Session with Jennifer Ferguson, instructional designer at ELI, focusing on podcasts

14 December, Martha Nell Smith, Professor of English  and former director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland, "Software of the Highest Order: Making MITH a Reality and Teaching with
the Dickinson Electronic Archives"
Reading:  the Dickinson Electronic Archive particularly the "writings section" and especially Emily Dickinson Writing a Poem, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities

Spring 2008

18 January, CANCELLED (rescheduled for 22 February).

25 January:  Open discussion and review of our continuing project work

15 February, Panel discussion on the future of the digital humanities experience at NVCC with Dogwood project director (Charles Evans), Merlot college representataive (Laura Franklin)  and the directors of the college’s Technical Application Center (Cathy Simpson) and Extended Learning Institute (Jennifer Lerner)

22 February, CANCELLED (rescheduled for 11 April)

21 March, Jeff Gates, Lead Producer, New Media Initiatives and Managing Editor of Eye Level (SAAM's Blog), Smithsonian American Art Museum, "The Blog:  Process and Interaction in a Museum Environment"
Reading: Case Study, New World Blogging within a Traditional Museum Setting;  Smithsonian American Art Museum (the museum's blog is Eye Level); Campfire Stories with George Catlin (another example case study project)

28 March, Technology Demonstration Session with Robert Brown, TAC, "You Too Can U-Tube: Using Available Software to Easily Create and Implement Video Online"

1 April (SPECIAL TUESDAY SESSION), John Thompson, Buffalo State College, "Web 2.0 and Higher Education"
Reading:  Is Education 1.0 Ready for Web 2.0 Students?; Tim O'Reilly, What is Web 2.0?; Kassandra Barnes, Raymond C. Marateo, and S. Pixy Ferris, Teaching and Learning with the Net Generation; also John Thompson, Use of Web 2.0 in Online Teaching (*.doc file) and Web 2 Applications for Teachers (*.ppt file)

11 April, Andy Mink, Director of Outreach and Education of the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia, “Teaching the Digital Experience”
Reading:  The Valley of the Shadow; the Virginia Center for Digital History; Also, chapter 5 in A Companion to Digital Humanities, "Computing and the Historical Imagination" by William G. Thomas II.

18 April, Bethany Nowviskie, University of Virginia, "NINES, Collex, the Digital Humanities and Speculative Computing"
Reading:  Bethany Nowviskie home page; The Rossetti Archive; Ivanhoe; Juxta; more on Collex; Nines; Collex (help for these tools at technologies@nines.org); a Scholar's Guide to Research, Collaboration and Publication in Nines; Scholar's Lab at the UVa library; UVa's New Horizon conference

25 April, Yitna Firdyiwek, University of Virginia, "The Designer-Faculty Working Relationship"; we will also discuss project evaluation
Reading:  Yitna Firdyiwek home page

2 and 9 May, Workshop Conclusion,  Participants will present and discuss their projects, talk about what comes next, i.e., How to follow-up the workshop, and evaluate the overall workshop.

Spring-Summer 2008

Project Dissemination (as interested)