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Snack-Sized Digital Pedagogy: Megan Brett and Emily McGinn

It’s important to maintain a balanced teaching diet! This free and open-to-the-public zoom series on digital pedagogy features paired lightning talks introducing teaching topics, interesting approaches to the classroom, pedagogical concepts, and more. All in a bite-sized form that should still give you plenty to chew on. 

This session will feature two five-minute talks on teaching with data followed by discussion for the remainder of our time:

  • Megan Brett, Manager for Collections Processing and Digital Initiatives at the Thomas Jefferson Library at Monticello 
    • Blurb: Working with historical structured data sources. We'll talk about some ways to approach transcribing historic documents into structured systems (spreadsheets or similar formats), including project planning, workflows, and some low/no tech starting points.
  • Emily McGinn, Digital Humanities Specialist at Johns Hopkins University
    • Blurb: I have data, now what? Forming a research question from humanities data. We’ll discuss how to examine the data you have, form a hypothesis, and structure investigations within the bounds of the dataset.

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Interested in showing off a pedagogical bite? Please fill out this form to indicate your interest in participating in the future! We're interested in showcasing anything you have found that moves you or your students in the classroom, that has worked well or failed utterly. And we are very interested in perspectives from folks in all different kinds of positions and institutional contexts - higher ed, K-12, administrators, cultural heritage workers, and more. After the session, each speaker will submit a short one-page (max) version of their five-minute presentation that we’ll collect into a crowdsourced, citable web publication of bite-sized DH pedagogical goodness. More information on the series can be found here.

Date:
Friday, February 21, 2025
Time:
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Campus:
Online
Categories:
Digital Humanities Scholars' Lab

Registration is required. There are 20 seats available.


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Event Organizer

Brandon Walsh