Bucknell Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship

Interesting infographics demonstrating that sixth graders in the richest school districts are four grade levels ahead of children in the poorest districts.

More colleges are allowing dissertations to take digital or other nontraditional forms, but students need to prepare for the career consequences.

Then I heard the thunder crash, and I saw a dark shadow on the wall. My heart began to pound, as . . . . This brief article describes "digital humanities" research that allows a computer to identify suspenseful moments in literary stories.

Apparently learning that science does not always come naturally-even to geniuses-helps children succeed. Students who learned that great scientists struggled, both personally and intellectually, outperformed those who learned only of the scientists' great achievements, new research shows. Ninth- and 10th-grade students in low-performing New York City schools who read about Albert Einstein's struggles, including multiple school changes...

This map of the Roman Empire allows you to zoom in and out to search for cities and other sites during the Roman Empire.

This article describes the Google Cultural Institute, which provides immersive views of artistic performances.

This article summarizes various studies that show that active learning if more effective than the traditional lecture, particularly for women and students of color.

Amazing infographic depicting where the top 23 world languages are spoken and how many people speak those languages.

Interesting article about an analysis of Ronald Reagan's news conferences in an attempt to determine early signs of dementia. The "digital humanities" aspect is that the same linguistic analysis has been use to study word use patterns by novelists.

Roughly 2,700 VHS tapes featuring titles like "Silent Night, Deadly Night," "Toxic Zombies" and "Buried Alive" arrived at Sterling Memorial Library last week. Yale has become the first institution in the country to actively collect VHS tapes, thanks to the initiative of Kaplanoff Librarian for American History David Gary and Aaron Pratt GRD '16.

An effective but somewhat disheartening use of GIS to map the frequency of lynchings in the Southern U.S. by county from 1877 to 1950.

This article discusses how unemployed men and women spend their time during a typical day. What's most interesting is how the data is represented visually.

Interesting article about the difficulty of working with archives, especially when their contents or structures don't match research questions. This applies mostly to paper archives, although the issue of digital archives is discussed at the end as well. The article is primarily a summary of presentations at a conference.

New York Times article about some of the challenges of "big data" analysis - particularly the data cleanup needed to make useful inferences.

This article describes the widespread use of the two "one-button" video recording studios at Penn State.

The study itself involved student self-reporting of Internet use during lecture, and the researchers used ACT scores as an indicator of academic ability, but the results are not surprising: students who surfed the Internet during lecture did worse on course exams. Duh!

Most of the links are to online textbook sites, but there are also links to other OER repositories.

Another interesting NY Times GIS map of "wellness" by county in the United States. I am using the term "wellness" not in a health context but instead as a summary description of their six data points: education, median household income, unemployment rate, disability rate, life expectancy, and obesity.