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Teaching Through Re-Reading

April 2, 2019

main web page view of mill marginalia online

by Albert D. Pionke, Department of English Although not specifically designed with the classroom in mind, Mill Marginalia Online offers instructors in philosophy, history, law, Classics, and English and European literature and culture the opportunity to incorporate Digital Humanities research results and methods into their courses. Each of these major subject areas is amply represented in nineteenth-century philosopher and liberal theorist John Stuart Mill’s personal library. Mill Marginalia Online seeks to digitize all of the handwritten marks and annotations found […]

Making History to Promote Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity

October 1, 2018

by Ellen Griffith Spears, New College Learning the lessons of history is crucial to promoting diversity and achieving justice. University of Alabama students’ involvement in historical research on racial discrimination led to them “making history” in two ways — by writing about past events and by advancing the work of the Scottsboro Boys Museum and Cultural Center to win exoneration of the Scottsboro defendants, nine young men wrongly accused of rape in 1931. The movement to defend the Scottsboro Boys was […]

One Best of All Possible Teaching and Learning Conferences

November 8, 2017

by Nathan Loewen, Department of Religious Studies The 2017 HASTAC conference was nothing short of amazing, in my humble opinion. The acronym stands for Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory, which is based on the proposal that “today’s new, global forms of communication and online learning are so complex and potentially so revolutionary that they demand a new alliance of humanists, artists, social scientists, natural scientists, and engineers, working collaboratively.” I was able to attend this event thanks to […]

A Taste of the Tide: Digital Humanities + Experiential Learning

May 4, 2017

internal page on Taste of the Tide blog featuring different recipes

by Lauren Cardon, Department of English Incorporating a digital humanities (DH) assignment and emphasizing experiential learning are two of the best ways to implement active learning techniques in the classroom. Fortunately, UA provides an excellent range of pedagogical resources on campus like the Alabama Digital Humanities Center (ADHC), Learning in Action (LIA), and the Active Learning Initiative (ALI). Faculty and staff within these programs offer workshops to promote their initiatives among different departments; however, several of them (Emma Wilson, Tyler […]

ADHC Visiting Speaker Bryan Carter Presents Digital Humanities Techniques For The Classroom

October 14, 2016

by Emma Wilson, Digital Scholarship Librarian and Assistant Professor of English It is my pleasure to invite you to join us for the Alabama Digital Humanities Center’s visiting speaker events next week on Thursday, October 20 and Friday, October 21 in the University Libraries, when Bryan Carter, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Arizona, will be presenting a formal lecture followed by a hands-on workshop introducing ways of incorporating Digital Humanities techniques such as augmented reality, virtual […]

Interactive Map Brings Art History to Life

September 13, 2016

Hoping to make her online course match the in-class experience, Jenny Tucker teamed up with the Alabama Digital Humanities Center and Katy Allen of the College of Continuing Studies to build an interactive map for her Survey of Art course. ARTmap, as it’s officially called, combines a multilayered Google map with multimedia and discussion elements to create a richer online learning experience. Students can now explore the evolution of art across time and space as they travel through each module. In this interview, Jenny and Katy talk about […]

How Librarians Can Help Your Students Find Better Sources

August 19, 2016

by Sara Whitver, University Libraries One of the things we all can usually agree on is that undergraduates struggle to find appropriate sources for their writing assignments. This issue perplexes us more as our students advance in their studies. As a librarian, one of the biggest challenges that I recognize our students are facing is the infinite amount of information available for them to choose from. As libraries have shifted from print to electronic, our students are faced with a much […]

Digital English! Active Learning with WordPress

March 21, 2016

Homepage for EN 411: Postcolonial Conditions

by Duncan M. Yoon, Department of English I was fortunate enough to present at the CIT Faculty Technology Showcase this past February. My presentation was on how I build WordPress websites for my literature classes as a digital hub for course materials, reading schedule, close reading blog posts, and discussion threads. Students really enjoy having everything they need for the class (minus their books, of course!) in one centralized space. The key for me when designing the site was to […]

Voyant Tools for Basic Text Analysis

February 24, 2016

by Jessica Porter, Office of Educational Technology (eTech) Whether you teach literature, history, or another text-heavy course, your students may benefit from the use of digital tools that enable them to dig deeper into a text and visualize its patterns and trends. Voyant Tools offers a suite of web-based tools that allow you to upload texts and perform basic text mining functions. The most popular item in the Voyant toolkit is Cirrus, a word cloud generator that displays words according to their frequency in a given text. The words that appear most often are […]

Let’s Get Digital, Digital (Humanities)! Part One

February 15, 2016

by Nathan Loewen, Department of Religious Studies The Alabama Digital Humanities Center (ADHC) opened in 2010. At the beginning of my second year at UA, I just now discovered the ADHC and its amazing home in Gorgas Library Room 109A . I arranged for a consultation with Emma Wilson yesterday. We enjoyed a vibrant discussion about how my teaching might deploy a digital humanities project. I really appreciated the upshot of our time together: pedagogy and learning objectives should inform whatever digital […]

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