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Teaching Annotation with The Portrait of a Lady

  • Authors and Texts / Curriculum and Assessment Design / Exploring Contexts / Technology Specific

John Attridge, University of New South Wales Overview In this assignment, students in a third-year undergraduate course collectively produced an online annotated text of Henry James’s The Portrait of a…

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Talking Back to Textbooks: Glossing Historical Language

  • Authors and Texts / Duration: 60-90 minutes / Exploring Contexts / Prep Level: Minimal / Technology Specific / Theory and Concepts

Sarah Neville, Ohio State University Educational Level Beginner to advanced Writing component Transcription, annotation Group size Small, medium, large Tools/technology Oxford English Dictionary, textbook Overview This exercise was originally designed…

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Writing Your Life in Poetry: An Online Creative Writing Workshop

  • Authors and Texts / Composition / Curriculum and Assessment Design / Duration: 60-90 minutes / Poetry / Technology Specific

Nicky Harlow, Open University This session has been developed as an introduction to writing autobiographical poetry web-conferencing software. The aims are to: - introduce students to the concept of using…

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What’s that Word?: Scholarly editing using web-based resources

  • Authors and Texts / Composition / Curriculum and Assessment Design / Duration: Multiple lessons / Exploring Contexts / Poetry / Prep Level: Extensive / Shakespeare

Kurt Temple and Rosemary Gaby, University of Tasmania This exercise equips students with the practical skills and knowledge required to transcribe, annotate and present an early printed text. Through completing…

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Students as Digital Annotators of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

  • Authors and Texts / Duration: 60-90 minutes / Duration: Multiple lessons / Duration: Semester long / Poetry / Prep Level: Extensive / Shakespeare / Technology Specific

Leonie Kirchhoff, Miriam Lahrsow & Angelika Zirker, Tübingen University Students frequently groan when they have to read poetry or historically remote literary texts.  A complaint like “That’s so difficult. I…

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Process not Product: Rethinking Composition in the Digital Humanities Classroom

  • Authors and Texts / Exploring Contexts / Social Media and Networks / Technology Specific / Theory and Concepts

Matthew Hannah, Purdue University The twenty-first century humanities classroom has been undergoing exciting changes. With the spread of digital scholarship initiatives, and the development of digital tools, instructors are finding innovative…

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Slack as Facilitator of Online and Offline Discussion

  • Authors and Texts / Curriculum and Assessment Design / Duration: Semester long / Exploring Contexts / Social Media and Networks / Technology Specific

Dorian Hunter Davis, American University This exercise, an interactive alternative to the more traditional class blog, asks students to respond outside of class to an open-ended prompt their instructor posts…

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“A Pedagogy of Long-form Podcasts”: Teaching “Slow Listening” and Composition through Podcasts

  • Authors and Texts / Duration: Semester long / Exploring Contexts / Prep Level: Moderate / Social Media and Networks / Technology Specific / Theory and Concepts

James M Cochran, University of Baylor Following Maura Kelly’s and others’ recent calls for “slow reading” or “Slow Books,” movements that encourage people to “pick up a meaningful work of…

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Making Pictures Speak

  • Authors and Texts / Exploring Contexts / Social Media and Networks / Technology Specific / Theory and Concepts

Alistair Brown, Durham University In the era of social media, images dominate over text. For English students in a world of Instagram and Amazon, images can reveal a great deal…

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