It’s important to maintain a balanced teaching diet! This free and open-to-the-public zoom series organized by Seanna Viechweg and Brandon Walsh is sponsored by the Scholars' Lab and the Digital Humanities Center in the UVA Library.  These sessions on digital pedagogy feature 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. Our speakers for this session with information about their contributions:

• Douglas Eyman, Associate Professor of History at George Mason University 
  • Blurb:

    • Helping students (and faculty!) develop critical digital literacies is a task that we all should be engaged in, particularly so now that generative AI needs human data and human language to continue progressing. I find that many of my students don't realize the extent to which they are being surveilled and how much of their lives are being tracked and turned into data for use by algorithms, both presumably benign, and those whose functions are more nefarious. In this presentation, I'll talk a bit about a couple of assignments I use to help students better understand their positions in the networks they inhabit - 'You Are Being Watched' and 'Data Detective' as well as introducing some resources for better understanding and safeguarding data privacy (useful for all - not just students).

• Cynthia Heider, Public Digital Scholarship Librarian at the University of Pennsylvania
  • Blurb:
    • Originally looking for a clever way to teach about the concept of contingency in a Digital History graduate course, I stumbled upon an assignment approach that also helped my students evaluate the way they approach scholarship production, as well as introducing them to the interactive storytelling tool Twine. In this presentation, I'll talk about a particularly well-received hands-on lab assignment I developed utilizing Jason Helms' multimodal work "Play Smarter Not Harder: Developing Your Scholarly Meta” and Gabi Kiriloff's Programming Historian guide to "Interactive Fiction in the Humanities Classroom: How to Create Interactive Text Games Using Twine."

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.