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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.

This guide is for teachers who face the challenge of teaching digitally in K-12 and how it can be used in a creative and collaborative way. Collaboration comes from the students and other teachers and needs to be incorporated into digital teaching so that they can learn from each other. Administrators need to be fully knowledgable about new technology so they can show the teachers who then show the students. They also want to create more study groups with digital tools for the students to collaborate more with each other.

Elizabeth Hopwood of Northeastern University blogs about the process of digitizing 19th century Caribbean texts for an archive. Due to her involvement in the archive, she was required to take a TEI encoding course along with others on the project so that they could learn to properly code everything themselves. As the workshop went on, she began to notice how intricate coding could be as well as how selective you must be in coding to choose what will be coded and what will not be coded. It is up to the individual coder to decide what kinds of things in the text need to be coded, whether that be mentions of gender, commodities, slaves, etc. She ends this blog post with some links to quick tutorials on TEI for those interested in getting into TEI coding for the Digital Humanities.

Kevin Colton explains how the use of simulation can increase the fundamental learning of history. By using charts, maps, diagrams, and photos, students can get a different and more effective learning experience. He also goes on to explain the basics of how he created the simulation and gives images to give you an idea of what the maps might look like and a demo simulation video.

300 students in the UK had the opportunity to learn more about digital skills, such as coding and reporting, away from a classroom setting. They were broken up into small groups and ask to create a report about a certain event. This helped the students collaborate and share their skills in an enviornment they were more comfortable then with students who had similar skills and interests as them.

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 blogger was asked to create a website over the papers she had been digitizing. Creating a website entailed knowing how to code it, which she had to learn. Her study shows that having the students build a website adds to their learning process and gives them new ways to think. It also allows the students to collaborate with their teachers that can further engage their research process by adding new questions or finding multiple audiences. The future of Digital Humanities lies within the graduate students and how they are being trained so that they can find better and easier ways to teach the younger generation.

A professor came and spoke to students and faculty about how students in higher education can integrate mapping tools into the classroom. They use these projects as organizational templates, spatial analysis, metaphors, graphs, and charts. She posts questions that should be asked before choosing the mapping approach for their projects.

I like the definition that Maxwell proposes here. I agree that this is a new "fresh" field and that it is gaining momentum. I think it is fascinating that the field is primarily present in Twitter and think that this social media site is something that can significantly aid digital humanists in their work. Sharing ideas and collaboration is clearly a new way of learning and in my opinion is the most effective way of learning. Creating easy access to information destroys any walls that may keep an individual from pursuing their research of a subject. When any information known is available online, nothing stands in the way of people constantly adding their ideas and input to that data. We all have a different approach to life and different thought processes, and therefore it is very important for us to share information widely and freely and to work in collaboration with one another.

The topic of Digital Humanities is discussed as a new teaching a research method. Since it is has been newly founded many people find it difficult to use and leave it to scholars and researchers to do most of the work. There are six factors that go into researching humanities that have been found also in researching sciences: publication practices, data, research methods, collaboration, incentives, and learning. By using this process one can easily understand Digital Humanities.

The Berkeley Folk Music Festival Collection is an archive of audio recordings, documents, film footage, and photographs from the Special Collections Library at Northwestern University. The archive's purpose is to preserve the collection, present it to a wider audience, interpret its significance and importance, and allow users to learn more about the cultural heritage and history in the digital age. It is also functioning as a sort of prototype for an historically-infused digital folk music festival and a research workshop.

This article is about a professor who's notion of digital humanities infuses technology with their writing, publishing, and pedagogy. She revised her old teaching philosophy of a pedagological approach to having an editorial pedagogy that helped her with editing, teaching, and administrating in a digital humanities world. This approach helps teachers and students learn from each other by having them act more as equals. Her teachings help students analyze certain genres and set up feedback in which the genre will be recieved or evaluated and adapt these skills to any reading, writing, or editing.

This 'conversation' by Patrick Murray-John is about the tension caused by collaborating with people of different focuses and specialties (more hack; less yack). He challenges the thought that technology has invaded the humanities. he believes that it is the other way around, owing to the detail to structure of the digital representation. He argues that explicating code as you would a dissertation is a great approach because the code does contribute to how people will perceive and process the information on the page. He compares user interface to kids learning to analyze literary text. The question many students ask ("Why can't we just read it? Why does it have to be work?") should not be questions posed about the interface. He believes that users should not be able to view or deal with the inner workings of the application.

A Canadian school principle created a website for other principles about why social media is important in the teaching of modern students. The principles write blogs that discuss different types of social medias and how they can be incorporated into practical ways in schools. They want to impact the student's learning with the parents help and this can be done through social medias.

This article discusses the theory of "the evolving brain" arguing that due to our environmental and cultural influences our cognitive skills and neurological giftings will constantly be different. For example, one of the men mentioned in the article never learned long division but argues he doesnt have to develop that skill when a computer can do it for him. At the same time, the arguement comes about that he will possess a different set of skills (like harnessing computer lioteracy) that are more applicable to himself and his surrounding enviorment.