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Creating Digital History » Blog Archive » Syllabus — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:05:18 +0000

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By: Lisa Spiro

Lisa Spiro — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:08:28 +0000

Thanks, Amanda! I hope it’s useful. I’ve been compiling a big (and overwhelming) bibliography of, um, stuff about collaboration, including sociological studies of collaborative work in science, examples of collaborative digital humanities projects, books and articles about peer-to-peer collaboration, and whatever else strikes me as interesting. It’s at http://www.zotero.org/lisaspiro/items/collection/143164 If you don’t feel like wading through 600+ bibliography entries (I’m such an information packrat), I’d be happy to suggest particular readings that might be relevant to your class…

Best of luck with the course–it sounds fabulous.

By: Amanda French

Amanda French — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:56:36 +0000

Thank heavens this post exists — so, so thorough as usual, Lisa. I’m putting together a module on collaboration for the course I’m developing, and I was stymied as to where to turn for readings on the subject. Odd, since, as you mention, it’s a key term at conferences these days.

And that’s a great point about collaborative teaching. I only wish it were structurally easier.

By: Lisa Spiro

Lisa Spiro — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:21:22 +0000

Great point, Dave. I hope to explore collaborative approaches to teaching further in a future blog post. I think your course on 1771 provides a great example of how collaborative approaches expose students to a wider range of expertise and make learning more engaged, authentic and fun. As for collaborative approaches to teaching digital humanities, I know that Matt Jockers at Stanford works with his DH students to produce a collaborative research project (which was presented at this year’s Digital Humanities conference), and I’m sure there are many more examples. This is well worth looking into further. Thanks for the suggestion!

By: Dave Mazella

Dave Mazella — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:54:46 +0000

Hi Lisa,

Just a short note that I really appreciated this (and linked to it with my blog), but did want to see something here about how collaboration could help one’s teaching in the digital humanities.

In other words, the collaborative models for inquiry you propose here, which offer collective models of information exchange, group authorship, etc, are equally helpful for the inquiry conducted in a classroom, and have the potential to make one’s teaching much more effective. (you already know this is an interest of mine, but I still think it’s worth stressing)

Great work here, please keep it up.

Best,

By: keeping it cool in the information pool « The Long Eighteenth

keeping it cool in the information pool « The Long Eighteenth — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:10:50 +0000

[...] Spiro (down the street and across the bayou at Rice) has a good, thorough post on “Examples of Collaborative Digital Humanities Projects,” which sketches out a series of examples of collaboration, along with their general purpose [...]

By: Digital History and visualization

Digital History and visualization — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:31:01 +0000

[...] We then expanded into talking about citation in a larger frame, including services like Zotero, which I’ve discussed in the past. The main payoff for me was seeing how unstable the relationship between the standards requires of citation ended up being: authors were chastised for their pedantry in creating footnotes that resemble the modern citation, while others were criticized for not being specific enough. One author claimed that he didn’t need to cite his work, since it was read precisely by the people he would have cited, which reminded me of a post I read yesterday about collaboration in the humanities and its silent trace. [...]

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By: bob fessler

bob fessler — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:16:29 +0000

nice post, keep writing thanks for sharing