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Role Playing Games (RPGs) in the Classroom: Fleshspace vs. Digital
We are being increasingly encouraged to “gamify” the classroom. Educators such as Cathy N. Davidson (Now You See It)(@cathyndavidson) and Jane McGonigal (Reality is Broken) have suggested that games...
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Whither Digital Pedagogy in the Graduate Seminar?
Speaking from my own experience in an English department and taking courses in different fields, graduate seminars tend to follow a pretty predictable pattern. Students are assigned to read a primary...
View ArticleReal Spaces Virtual Places
I am interested in sharing opinions and collaborating with those who are using virtual reality platforms–I currently use Second Life–to explore VR’s pedagogical possibilites. This includes...
View ArticleTeaching with Trolls: Digital Pedagogy and the Unruly Internet
I would like to share experiences and ideas about the opportunities and dangers that come from taking our teaching practice out of the sheltered space of the classroom and into the open internet. More...
View ArticleDomain of One’s Own/Scaling Up
This may be redundant because I’m trying to start a similar conversation at ThatCamp MLA. But I’d be keen to meet up with anyone who’s interested in the problem of scale: How do we move from individual...
View ArticleDigital Dialogues with Students
I’m interested in how other teachers shape productive digital dialogues with students, especially while providing feedback on their work or responding to their inquiries and interests. I used...
View ArticleTeaching Creativity through Code
While digital pedagogy is often associated with using technology to change communication both within and beyond the classroom through tools such as Twitter, blogs, etc., most of these forms remain...
View ArticleHypercities
I would be interested in knowing what other participants’ experiences have been with models like the hypercities one. I am particularly interested in seeing if there is general interest in expanding...
View ArticleMeaningful Assignments
I’d love to discuss using technology to create more meaningful assignments and assessments. I want students to learn by doing and for there to be a connection between their in-class and out-of-class...
View ArticleStudents as Apprentice Scholars
Since the late 1990s, I have recruited students to work on the John Milton Reading Room, an online hyperlinked edition of Milton’s poetry and selected prose. They have prepared texts, tagged spelling...
View ArticleDH and the First Year Writing Course
As a graduate student I have few chances to teach upper level courses, so almost all of my teaching experience is with first year writing courses and first year literature courses, both of which are...
View ArticleWriting, Comp/Rhet, and DH Tools
In my current position, I teach English primarily as composition and rhetoric. For most of my students, my class is their first experience with college level-writing. I’d like to think about ways to...
View Article“Occupy the public domain”
I’ve taken the title of my proposal from Jennifer Rothman’s February 6, 2012 op-ed piece in the San Francisco Chronicle where she argues, “Instead of providing for sharing [...] important [civic]...
View ArticleDigital pedagogy outside the classroom
If others are interested, I’d love to spend some time talking about ways that we can (or could, or already do) incorporate digital pedagogy methods not just to teach students in the classroom, but also...
View ArticleMOOCs and Digital Pedagogy
I would like to discuss the viability of MOOCs as a pedagogical mode within the humanities. 1. How do MOOCs disrupt the traditional curriculums, economies, and power dynamics of higher ed.? 2. How do...
View ArticleFERPA and teaching with open digital tools
Do you have your students blog, tweet or use Facebook as part of class? Are you worried about the impact of using social media combined with FERPA? I’m proposing a small session to talk about this, and...
View ArticleOnline Spaces and Writing
I’m a PhD student, and I started teaching freshman composition last semester. Although I had initially envisioned my students tweeting and blogging, the time constraint and required rubric that the...
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Rethinking Graduate Education
Much of the conversation about digital pedagogies seems to be implicitly centered around undergraduate students. I’d love to have a conversation about how digital pedagogies are changing academic...
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