If you have ideas for a digital project related to your research and would like support for project development, consider joining the second cohort of the Digital Scholarship Fellows Program. The deadline for proposals has been extended to December 16. See our recent post for more details! The program offers a learning community with other…
Category: Digital Scholarship
Introducing “Digital Connecticut College”
Yesterday we held a workshop to introduce Digital Connecticut College. Thanks to everyone who attended! What is Digital Connecticut College? Digital Connecticut College provides students, faculty, and staff with the opportunity to register a domain name and create a digital presence through various mediums such as blogs, portfolios, and wikis. You can easily install open source applications…
2019 Digital Scholarship Fellows Program: Call for Proposals
Have you ever wanted to create a digital companion for a book project? Do you have collections of research materials collecting dust or physically degrading in your office, or large datasets you’d like to develop into maps or visualizations to accompany your written scholarship? Would you like your students to actively engage with Special Collections…
Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts Symposium, November 12
On Monday, November 12, join Information Services and the Office of the Dean of Faculty for the inaugural Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts Symposium at Connecticut College. You can see the full schedule and details here. The symposium is the culminating event of the first year of the Digital Scholarship Fellows Program, funded by…
Enhancing Research through Digital Scholarship
The spring and summer saw many new developments in digital scholarship at Connecticut College. As the College seeks to “open new channels for groundbreaking research, scholarship, and creative work,” outlined in the 2016 Strategic Plan, digital scholarship offers new tools and methodologies to leverage open-access publishing and computational methods of analysis for the advancement of…
First Cohort of Faculty Join the Digital Scholarship Fellows Program
This January, Professors Phillip Barnes (Biology), Catherine Benoît (Anthropology), and Sufia Uddin (Religious Studies) became the first Digital Scholarship Fellows in a new program generously funded by the Office of the Dean of Faculty and led by staff members in Information Services. Building on the success of the Technology Fellows Program (2014-2018), the Digital Scholarship…
2018 Digital Scholarship Fellows Program: Call for Proposals
Have you been thinking about creating a digital companion for your book project? Do you have collections of research materials collecting dust or physically degrading in your office, or large datasets you’d like to develop into a digital archive, maps, or visualizations to accompany your written scholarship? Would you like your students to actively engage…
Debates in the Digital Humanities Reading Group, Fall 2017
Should liberal arts campuses do digital humanities? What is the role of teaching and learning in digital humanities? How are the digital humanities impacting your field? How does DH engage with, improve, and/or perpetuate problems of social justice? Debates in the Digital Humanities addresses these questions and many more. In the reading group, we…
See you at Camp Teach & Learn!
Will you be at Camp Teach & Learn next week? If so we look forward to seeing you at the following sessions! Reflect, Integrate, Demonstrate: Student Digital Portfolio Pilots Wednesday 24 May 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM As we build a curriculum that asks students to reflect upon and integrate their coursework and co-curricular activities,…
Digital Storytelling on and for the Environment
Recently I met with Siri Colom, C3 Doctoral Fellow in Environmental Studies, to discuss an interesting project she incorporates into SOC/ES 329: Sociology of the Wild. Students are asked to critically think about what “nature” is, and how “our conception of it is socially and culturally based, and how it might preclude us from understanding…