Bucknell Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship

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.

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.

Boyer outlines four types of scholarship, with implications for DP&S' work. Boyer notes that scholarship is often equated with research, and argues here for a more flexible, open-minded approach to definitions of scholarship, reminding us that "scholarship in earlier times referred to a variety of creative work carried on in a variety of places, and its integrity was measured by the ability to think, communicate, and learn." The crux of his argument is what he sees as the relationship between theory and practice, which enable and reinforce one another. Outlining four types of scholarship-discovery, integration, application, and teaching-Boyer makes it clear that scholarship is more than siloed, disciplinary research. It also includes those activities which make the findings of scholarship comprehensible to others, and the application of those findings to specific problems beyond the Ivory Tower. In Boyer's four-part model, discovery is essentially research, i.e., the creation of new knowledge. Integration involves drawing connections between existing knowledges, and making those knowledges intelligible to audiences outside the academy. Application is the use of scholarly understanding to answer questions and solve problems. It overlaps to some extent with the notion of service, though not all service is scholarship: "To be considered scholarship, service activities must be tied directly to one's special field of knowledge and relate to, and flow directly out of, this professional activity. Such service is serious, demanding work, requiting the rigor-and the accountability-traditionally associated with research activities." Teaching, the final component of Boyer's model, is self-evident, and for him "teaching, at its best, means not only transmitting knowledge, but transforming and extending it as well."

A free iOS productivity app and web service for anyone with a project or collection of things they'd like to keep in one place and share with others.

Combine photos with voices

Great resource for public domain images.

Study shows flipped classroom improves student outcomes

Interesting read on how to flip your classroom.

High schools are flipping over flipping. ;-)

Duke University student newspaper "As the use of the "flipped classroom" model rises on campus, students and faculty are taking time to adjust to the idea."

This article appeared in the Emerging Ed Tch blog.