These results show the findings of the 2016-2017 HERI survey given to Chapman faculty. What I find interesting from these results is the ubiquity of the use of video content (85%!) and online assignments, which 40% of our faculty are using in their courses:
For many years the most visited post on this blog site was one that I wrote several years ago titled, “In a Rut with PowerPoint.” In that post I described a few alternatives to this software, that could help to shake up the presentation experience. I reprised this post a few years later, with some
Announcing an exciting event to be held in Chapman’s almost-completed new Tech Hub space: Title: Challenging Infrastructural Regimes/ Framing Humanistic Infrastructure By Patrik Svensson (bio, below) Time: 2:30-4 pm Place: The Tech Hub, DeMille Hall 104 Sponsor: the Office of Academic Technology and Digital Scholarship Bio for Svensson (adapted from patriksv.com): Svensson’s scholarship focuses on the
From October 2-5 Chapman will hold its first DRAW (Discover Research and Arts Week) Event. Staff from Academic Technology will be presenting two events as part of DRAW. On October 4: Digital Research Tools You Need to Know 7:00-9:50 p.m. – Beckman Hall 201 Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences This workshop will
At the beginning of summer I started a social media experiment, to bring people into the Center for American War Letters Archive with me (and my collaborator Doug) virtually, via FB Live, to share some of our findings from WWII letters. I had no idea what to expect from this experiment, whether it would flounder
This post has notes and links for my talk at the IETL Teaching Academy: First of all, is a link to the blogpost that inspired this session My favorite alternatives to PPT presentations: PREZI ADOBE SPARK PAGE Here are two examples of each: Prezi talk: Into to DH Master Class Adobe Spark Page: Digital Scholarship
[This post is part of my ongoing series about Digital Scholarship…] Over the past decade there have been numerous attempts to reimagine the typical scholarly publication practices of authoring journal articles and monographs. An early experiment in this vein was the Vectors journal produced at USC, which used a variety of web technologies to create
In a previous post I’ve written about the powerful experience of bringing students into the Center for American War Letters Archive (CAWLA), which is located in the lower level of the Leatherby Libraries. In order to extend the reach of the archive experience further than the walls of my classroom, I’m collaborating with librarian Doug
No matter what your current career stage–on the job market, or are applying to present at a conference, or publishing a new monograph–you will be Googled. And the real question is then, what will be found when that happens? Curating an online scholarly identity doesn’t happen overnight, but you can get the ball rolling with
As instructors, we know that our students consult Wikipedia when they want to learn the basics of a topic. And while this practice can sometimes be concerning, especially if the students solely rely on Wikipedia rather than using it as a springboard for deeper learning, there are many ways to engage the students with Wikipedia