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Feb. 28, 2020: Richard Marciano Launches the Advanced Information Collaboratory (AIC) after Directing the Digital Curation Innovation Center (DCIC) for 5 Years

Richard Marciano is pleased to announce the founding and launching of the AIC Collaboratory (“Advanced Information Collaboratory”) on Feb. 28, 2020!...

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Public Domain image of women putting colorful post-its on a board. Students with laptops look at the board.

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Making the Most of Student Participation using Surveys with Ms. Paula Patch

Ms. Paula Patch is a Senior Lecturer in English and Assistant Director for First-Year Initiatives at Elon University, where she previously...

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Here's How To Make a (free, safe) Group On HASTAC.org

Any HASTAC Member Can Create A Course Group on HASTAC Cathy Davidson If you are registered as a HASTAC member, you can begin to create a Group for...

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The Power of a Simple Math Problem: Part Two of My Visit to Southport Elementary

The Tour In my previous post, I talked about my arrival at Southport Elementary in southern Indianapolis, and some of the conversation I had with the...

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Language Panda: Finding and Sharing Digital Tools for Language Teaching

In 2016, a group of graduate students at Vanderbilt University identified a need on campus for a stronger language teaching community: While...

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Image of a Quote from Laurie Gries's Book 'Still Life With Rhetoric' (full quotation provided in the post)

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From Cardi B to Stranger Things: Circulating Consequences

This is the second post in a series leading up to my HASTAC webinar “From Cardi B to Stranger Things: Using Popular Culture in the Writing Classroom...

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Image of a mac laptop from above with a phone, journal, orange and pen.

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Creating Digital Discovery Journals with Ms. Amber Benson

As the Executive-in-Residence at the Temerlin Advertising Institute at Southern Methodist University, Ms. Amber Benson teaches Digital Media...

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Online Writing Activities (Netprov)

As many of us have had to suddenly move our class online, we need to find activities suitable for this new environment. For that purpose, Rob Wittig...

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Notes from Underground

My relationship to my profession—teaching comparative literature, religious studies and philosophy at an elite liberal arts college, DePauw...

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The How's and Why's of PBL: Part Three of My Visit to Southport Elementary

Post Tour Interview After our wonderful tour through the halls and classrooms of Southport Elementary, we stopped to chat and ask questions that had...

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Naming the elephant (or, how I learned to do the obvious and get out of the way of the conversations my students really wanted to have)

It matters how you enter a room. Particularly when you’re the teacher and you’re trying to set a tone for the rest of the semester. And particularly...

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Down Shifting: Resisting Over-Productivity and the "Teacher as Martyr" Syndrome in the Pandemic

This teacher-scholar is TIRED. The kind of tired that I can feel behind my eyeballs; the kind that no amount of uninterrupted sleep, vigorous...

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Accessible Syllabus for Transformative Learning

WHUM 10100 Course Syllabus Draft (Distance Learning Edition) City College of New York Instructor: Nik Valdez, they/them/theirs Class Meeting: Office...

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Our colleague, Raoul Roberts, created the above visualization titled Glitches, Switches, and Weaponized Elements inspired by our class session and readings. His reflections on the class session and explanation of the visualization are below.

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Examining glitches, switches, and weaponized elements of educational technologies

Image Credit: Raoul Roberts created the above visualization titled Glitches, Switches, and Weaponized Elements inspired by our class session and...

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From Cardi B to Stranger Things: Finding the Sonic Narrative

Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay This post is the first in a series that relates to my HASTAC webinar “From Cardi B to Stranger Things: Using...

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Reflections: Teaching writing & critical thinking; giving feedback to students

One of the critiques I got from a student’s evaluation of my teaching last year was that I spent a lot of time telling them what not to do in their...

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MSU Global DH Symposium

Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to extend its symposium series on Global DH into its fifth year. Digital humanities...

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An imaginary syllabus

Race and Media Social Welfare 1234 Tuesdays, 2-4 pm Professor: Yaneth Lombana Pronouns: She, her, hers Email: ylombana@gradcenter.cuny.edu Student...

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Spliced Schooling (Part 1)

The news is playing again. There are some more educational experts on television speaking about education with Anderson, Rachel, Cuomo and D. Lemon (...

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