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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.

A literature teacher and researcher who is very fond of books and texts has realized the importance of a digital education. She likes the digital aspect of researching information because if information is given digitally it gives people around the world access to it. This can create a better education for people around the world and connect people who have the same interests. She focuses on discussing Digital Humanities that focus around literature and arts so that once more people become digitally connected, humanities people can demonstrate their skills and expertise that are relatable to people around the world outside of a classroom or library. She knows the importance it is for the 21st century to have easier access to more humanities knowledge that can be shown everywhere.

In this article Lee Bessette discusses the challenges that teachers find in digital Humanities. He believes, that most contingent faculty already feel, to a certain extaint, like super-humanists, expected to be able to teach just about any sub-area of their field at the drop pf a hat. Adding DH to the overlaod can become a burdern to those teachers who are not on tenure and can not afford to learn DH because of time, research, and funding.

This blog is over a first year teachers proposal to teach a writing course that is digitally based. By teaching this way allows for students to focus more on analyzing, archiving, and transforming into a more modern method. Instead of composing through a word documents, students will use the XML program which does not tell any computer what to do with the information. This program requires students to describe what they are doing as they do it. It also allows students to see all of their editing work and has other advantages that Word does not.

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.

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 article shows how creating an archive is kind of like baking a cake. First she says to identify your craving of what you want and why. The next step is finding a recipe that you have carefully researched that shows step-by-step how to build an archive and acquire the ingredients. This can include government documents, treaties, historical and medical records, letters written by historical and literary figures, ect. After getting these ingredients you must translate, transcribe, and digitize them into the archive. She also requires you to establish an order of organization to allow teachers and researchers to use and search the archive. The final step is to share the archive with others.

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.

This is a guest blogpost on the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture (IDHMC) website of TAMU, written by Dr. Jacob heil, a post-doctoral researcher for the IDHMC. He writes in an attempt to express the early modernist's perspective of DH. He starts by discussing the issue of definition ("in" or "out"), His opinion is that, "To my mind, I'm not 'in' or 'out' of DH; I'm just doing my work." He embraces the popular ethos of collaboration and a dedication to open-access, though he admits they might be ideals. He argues that reasearch should become resource, speaking of the way in which teachers share their research.

This study highlights the need for raising teacher's awareness of ER-based reading comprehension questions. This study was conducted to determine how frequently critical thinking is used in EFL reading comprehension contexts at the tertiary level in an Iranian University. To collect the data, the researchers observed all reading comprehension courses in one of the universities in Isfan Province. They recorded 30 percent of the total number of sessions using two mini-size MP4 wireless recorders during the spring semester. The findings suggested that the teachers focus on each CRQ type strongly influences student attention when reading different passages.

arXiv is another open access collection/publication (?) maintained by Cornell University. The publications are based primarily in any field of science and mathematics (such as work on K-Theory and quantitative biology). It does not state if the articles are peer reviewed, but it does say that "Submissions...must conform of Cornell University academic standards." I don't know if this means that all of the work in the collection is by students and teachers, or if the were able to scan in articles from the library.