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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Andrea Verner

Andrea Verner

George Couros: Why School Administrators Should Embrace the Social Web - 0 views

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    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.
Andrea Verner

A Collaborative Guide to Best Digital Learning Practices for K-12 - 0 views

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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.
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Announcing the Digital Humanities Winter Institute - 0 views

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    This event is a week long opportunity that discusses different topics about digital humanities. Each participant will get extensive material about their topic that pertains to their knowledge about digital humanities. A beginning course would show how project development and humanitites programming which no experience is required.
Andrea Verner

Building and Sharing (When You're Supposed to be Teaching) - 0 views

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    A literature professor uses digital work such as electronic literature and videogames in his classroom to teach students building and sharing that they often find more enjoyable because they are working with technology they understand. She uses building as a way to integrate digital humanities in a classroom and how its the reproduction of knowledge. In a classroom she states the importance of collaboration between students to show how they are making something for each other and the outside world.
Andrea Verner

Collaborative Teaching, Shared Pedagogies: a #digped Discussion - 0 views

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    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.
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Editorial Pedagogy, pt. 1: A Professional Philosophy - 0 views

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    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.
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Building an Archive: Baking a Cake - 2 views

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    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.
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The Power of We: Collaboration in the Classroom.Or, How I Live-Tweeted My Class With My... - 0 views

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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.
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Course Description: 21st C Literacies (Ph.D. Lab in Digital Knowledge) - 0 views

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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.
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Rules of Engagement; or, How to Build Better Online Discussion - 0 views

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    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.
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Teaching in the Digital Tornado - 1 views

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    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.
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HYBRID PEDAGOGY: A Digital Journal of Teaching & Technology - 0 views

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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.
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Teaching Mobile Media Design in the Field - 0 views

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    A Chief Ranger of a historical site and a digital media specialist collaborate together to create a class that discusses mobile media design and digital storytelling. The students also visit a historical site weekly and discuss the history of the village during the Fur Trade Era. Special guests are also included in the teachings such as archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians that know more about the history during this era. The students final project is to create an app that shows some aspect of this village during this era. This will help the students learn how to design a digital media that can be accessed mobile.
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Broken Books and Teaching with Technology - 0 views

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    A doctoral student in English whose focus is modernist studies, textual studies, and projects in the digital humanities shows how teaching can be used with technology to make the students question their influences with their writing. His project is to track and evaluate modernists texts that reveal the influence of its history. In finishing his project he hopes to show that electronic editions of books reveal more information that show how books can be unstable and uncomplete.
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CFP: Teaching With Games - MLA13 - 0 views

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    This opportunity is offered electronically to gather information on different games that can be used in teaching literature, languages, and writing. Some of the games are not done digitally but others focus around teaching with video games or social networks. Virtual worlds and spatial games (foursquare, geocaching, ect) will also be used as a teaching method. Selection of people who will be asked to present their findings will be based on different styles of classrooms, student experiences, successes, and failures.
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Building Digital Humanities in the Undergraduate Classroom - 1 views

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    This event is promoting digital teaching to show how looking at an object or text digitally can produce different aspects that would not have been found otherwise. Undergrads typically are able to do some work digitally but lack how to interpret it. Through the collaboration with students they are able to build digital artifacts instead of using technology for media purposes only. This event will show students how to build and interpret digital humanities by showing different projects from scholars that are knowledgable in digital humanities
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MLA Workshop: Getting Started in Digital Humanities with DHCommons - 0 views

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    This is an opportunity for people who want to learn more about digital humanities and how to research and teach it. Digital expertises will show their digital projects and form small groups that shows technologies and skills to get started on their digital project. At the end of this event, participants will have a plan how to start their digital humanities project and have resources that can help them in their field.
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Scene: The digital education world. Enter: A traditional humanities teacher. Curtain ri... - 0 views

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    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.
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Announcing the launch of The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Wom... - 0 views

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    This website has been created which will serve to scholars in the United States that will provide free information that pertains to the history of women's education. The material off their website can be used for teaching, research, or other interests. They also have work that undergraduate students have compiled such as lesson plans and digital scrapbooks. On their website they also announce upcoming exhibitions and events that pertain to Digital Humanities and also essay contests.
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Wikimania 2012: Using the Wikipedia Global Education Program to Co-Create meaning - 0 views

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    A professor at Georgetown University is collaborating with students to further develop the Wikipedia Arabic program that has very few data covering materials in this language. Students will work with people who speak Arabic, mostly those that live in Egypt, to create and translate Arabic articles. This professor plans to show others her students research so that they can influence other scholars research and further develop research in translating media information around the world.
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