One of the unusual results of student led learning is that occasionally, when the students set the homework, the lecturer has to do it. Over the past two weeks, our MA DAH class conducted an exercise in creativity which was new to me, but will become a regular part of our programme. Continue reading Class Art Collections
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The Digital Humanities team at UCC are hosting a tools and methods workshop for the phd class this weekend, and we are using data about Frank O’Connor, the Cork writer, as the thematic glue to link the various sections on TEI/XML, Databases, visualisation and social networking. Preparing for it I’ve sent some time hunting for data on his early years in the 1901 Census, and the BMH witness statements. Continue reading Hunting Frank O’Connor This term I did a little experiment with some readings on contemporary networked warfare and learning in my HI2007, War, State and Society option. I staged the discussion in the first week to see if different sequences of readings might produce different discussions. It didn’t, but it was an interesting week. Continue reading Starting a war….
It all started in a pub, as the best Irish projects do. I was sitting in the back of the Franciscan Well, smoking my pipe, having a pint of their microbrew stout and tweeting, as one does, when I saw and retweeted a call for papers for articles on evaluation for the Journal of Digital Humanities. I didn’t actually plan for anything to come of it, but a bunch of our MA students grabbed the idea, and the next thing I knew, we agreed to write and submit a paper. As a result, over 10 days, we drafted, edited using Skype and Google Docs, and submitted, a good paper. Continue reading I wonder how many people googled ‘Shikari’ Today: Writing with Students Last week a group of us set out to write a piece on assessment and evaluation of digital material in response to a call for contributions to the Journal of Digital Humanities. We began by writing fast stream of consciousness pieces which we later merged and edited into a single piece – that process is described in another post. This is the initial piece of fast writing which I did for our writing project, of which the final version appears online here My engagement with assessing digital artefacts in academe is driven by the problem of grading the digital work being produced in our Phd and MA programmes in Digital Arts and Humanities Continue reading Love in a cold climate: Assessment of Digital Artefacts in an Irish University Mike Cosgrave, Anna Dowling, Lynn Harding, Róisín O’Brien & Olivia Rohan
Communities of Practice in Digital Scholarship (DH6001) is a core module in the Master in Digital Arts & Humanities here in UCC, and I feel the group are more than ready to break cover from the institutional VLE and “walk the walk” in public, even if no one much is watching! For next Monday’s seminar, rather than circulating readings among the group and having discussion in the room, we are going to do something different – we’ll still be in the room together playing with some technology but a lot of the substance of the discussion will be public. Continue reading Communities of Practice: Walking the Walk 2012 Encouraging students in university to reach beyond the traditional disciplinary boxes is a significant problem – our education system makes practically no effort to look across the traditional disciplinary boundaries. Some US universities have experience with common first year programmes that focus on problems in an interdisciplinary space in which students can explore different disciplinary modes of investigation in an integrative way. Simply copying their programmes would, I think, properly meet the needs of our undergraduates. How then might we design first year courses which encourage students to work on questions rather than in disciplines, with a distinctively Irish flavour? One pet course I have had in mind would use the Great Famine as theme. Continue reading To the man with a hammer, every problem is a nail The Great Harvard Cheating Scandal of 2012 rumbles on, with more details emerging which make it seem to me that it was neither “cheating” nor was it an “examination”. Regardless of what the official course syllabus stipulates, contradictory guidance from a professor and 4 teaching assistants, along with accepted practice and failures to catch this sooner, lead me to believe that Harvard will have to drop the allegations. I doubt if we will ever know the full detail of this specific case, but it touches on general issues of course design which I want to comment on. Continue reading Harvard “Exam” “Cheating” Scandal rumbles on Francis Bernard Beamish, of the Cork brewing family, served from time to time as MP for Cork in the mid-1800s, and when I was doing my research masters on the history of Beamish & Crawford, I dug his contributions out of the printed volumes of the House of Commons Debates. He didn’t have a lot to say, speaking mostly on local issues, but occasionally making brief comments on more general matters. Finding his contributions wasn’t too hard, because I was looking for one MP from one constituency, but it would be even faster now because all of the debates back to 1800 are online. I have a number of questions which are driving me back to the parliamentary debates, and the more I rummage in the archives, more interesting issues crawl out. Continue reading Fun with Hansard |
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