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This website describes what hybrid pedagogy is and how it is useful for classrooms. It gives article and forums that also allow other people to add to their website if it pertains to digital pedagogy. The articles are divided up by subjects such as: hybridity, digital pedagogy, online learning, and collaboration. It also gives opportunities for digital writers.

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.

In this short blog post, Beth Corzo-Duchardt introduces a project she is working on in the Gender Studies Program. She has decided to "ditch" Blackboard, because it does not a smooth functioning user-friendly program for students and her. Instead, she is using Wordpress and is hoping it will work better for her classrooms.

This article focuses on collaborative teaching in a classroom and uses Twitter to have a discussion. Usually teaching is done by one person which henders the collaborative work of the teachers and discourages collaborative between students. This article asks questions to how to collaborate in a classroom.

Bethany Nowviskie's article proposes an overhaul of modern graduate studies by replacing aging practices and methods of education with more modern and technology appropriate forms of education. One of Nowviskie's key points of criticism it that many of these more traditional forms of graduate education are producing humanities PhDs who do not fully understand how modern universities work and are impacted by the outside world. Nowviskie's main proposal for beginning to replace these aging methods is through the cooperation of funding agencies and respected humanities organizations, ones with a good history of inter-institutional and interdisciplinary collaboration, to utilize grants to reshape graduate studies.

The UA article introduces a collection of humanities professors, with a focus on Africana studies assistant professor Bryan Carter, who have worked to integrate modern technology such as smart phones with their course. The article provides multiple examples of how these technologies have been specifically integrated into the classrooms, such as iPhones reading out lectures from the syllabus, as well as how online courses have attracted a new group of students who might have otherwise been uninterested in the course. The professors interviewed in the article all agree that integrating new forms of technology with the classroom is important to opening access to education to new students.

This link, rather than an actual article, is an entry for the grant application process for the Digital Humanities, closing on Jan. 23, 2013. Although it lacks any actual discussion of its own on the Digital Humanities, it provides a link to its own entry on the NEH website which has a collection of projects which have applied for grants, such as WordSeer. The grant requires its applicants to be nonprofits or education institutions, meaning its list of applicants may provide insight into modern innovations in the Digital Humanities with regards to education.

The article explains the potential application of the SMI RED-m, an eye tracking device, in digital classrooms by explaining its use by the Humanities Lab of Lund University in Sweden. According to the article Lund University, in cooperation with other international researchers, installed 25 SMI RED-m devices to build a prototype digital classroom. By utilizing this eye tracking software, researcher sin the visual perception lab hope to analyze how children learn things in a classroom situation, particularly with regards to introducing new technology to the class room. The intent of the researchers is to use data collected from the project to better tailor educational materials to the abilities and interests of children.

In this article Brian Croxall introduces the three digital workshops that will be on display at the 2013 MLA. Coxwell gives the importance of each workshop and he explains how they can be helpful while using MLA formating in the classroom. The first workshop entitled Digital Pedagogy Unconference is popularized in academia and is targeted for people who have never used technology in the classroom. The second workshop welcomes scholars who wish to pursue or join digital scholarly projects but do not have the institutional infrastruce to support them. The last workshop entitled ThatCamp is an open, inexspensive meeting where humanists and technoligies of skill levels learn and build together in sessions proposede on the spot.

This website is used to "help liberal arts colleges integrate, pedagogy, and technology." Established in 2001, the NITLE is the leading organization for colleges who are wanting to integrate technology into their liberal arts department. The website feature articles to keep researchers up to date in the field. The main headquarters are located at Southwestern University.