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In a 21st Century Media class an instructor conducted an experiment that allowed the students and professor to live tweet their class session, which she deemed a success. The students had an assigned reading that they were to find a method and be able to prepare it to the class. She informed them what a meaningful tweet would be that would be able to add to the online discussion. The purpose of this assignment was to show how twitter can be used academically. Students in the class were able to multitask by discussing online with each other and also in the classroom setting.

Professor Katherine Rowe teaches a Shakespeare class online and discusses with us the benefits of being able to digitize this course. She says that she has previously taught this exact same course in a lecture hall as well as a theater but believes that it was less effective. Students participate in assignments that allow them to recreate popular Shakespearean scenes digitally for deeper understanding. This article also highlights other projects assigned by various other professors. This includes a digital visualization of the University of Virginia's first library collection and editing of the transcribed online versions of Household Words and All the Year Round.

Digital Media is always asking for comments on the topics discussed and this article teaches the difference in people who express their opinion and those that are trying to engage in discussion. In a classroom setting he suggests to have students participate in online discussions that make them responsible for showing what they have learned and how to summarize and analyze is properly. Online discussion also allow students to read all the information before saying a comment so that they have listened and taken in everything that has been said. In a classroom she suggest to divide the class into three groups that consist of "first responders," "arguers," and "consensus builders." Also she wants to teach social citation that requires students to cite posts from other students which they support. Online learning also allows students who are afraid to speak up in class to discuss without feeling embarrassed.

To prepare for a digital discussion Sean Morris gathered information containing education technology that shows new ways to communicate and new organizational tools. In the beginning of his teaching career him and a coworker created a paperless class that forced students to turn in assignments online; eventually turning it into a fully online course. Educational technology classrooms are created worldwide to use new modern ways to teach. Through online learning, students can use smaller parts to create a bigger picture which are then small parts for the collaboration of all the students work that is brought together. He leaves the readers with many questions about how to make the information accessible and accurate across the internet.

This future course at a University wants to show how the human and the new machine are used for research and teaching. Their online learning method is used to incorporate different learning styles that are used in research with computational tools and networks that are connected throughout the world. This class is designed to prepare students in the humanities and social sciences that use new ways of thinking, teaching and learning. Their hoping with showing how online learning better educates students that it transforms higher education making it more meaningful to the present and future. After students have finished this course they will leave with many e-portfolio projects, public online writing, multimedia and collaborative productions.

A professor used her Women's Studies class as a way to test out the use of digital humanities in the undergraduate classroom. The assignment was to create an online archive of every issue of the feminist magazine "Conditions" as well as a presentation over the issue they chose. In doing so, they were required to scan in every page of the magazine and edit them on computer to fit together uniformly. At the end of the assignment period, she submitted the archive into the "Lesbian Poetry Archive" for public viewing and use. Through working on this archive, she became convinced that the PDF format will continue to be the main format for converting physical documents into the digital medium. This is due to the format being almost universal in digital humanities and the likelihood of it continuing to be a relevant file format for many years to come.

Ostracology is a Tumblr for the course "Fragments of a Material History of Literature," taught by professor Jeffrey Schnapp and Matthew Battles of metaLAB at Harvard. It illustrates a way in which educators can utilize digital tools to better engage and challenge students. The instructors post lessons in blog-form for students to read, leave comments, and discuss. Also included are random class-related musings, invitations to events, and neat online finds.

After playing around on the Wayback Machine website in class, I wanted to know more about the site. In this article, we see the man behind the creation of the Wayback Machine site and what exactly the site contains. This archive allows for users to browse through over 160 billions webpages, going as far back as 1996, and keeps the internet past preserved in his online archive. This storage system is reliable and effiecient for users and is really quite interesting to browse through some of our favorite and popular sites today.