Please register for the Digital Jumpstart Workshops. (Open to the University of Kansas and other institutions in the region)

The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities and the Center for Teaching Excellence are proud to announce the Fall 2022 Digital Jumpstart Workshops, “Digital Storytelling in the Classroom.”

“Digital Storytelling in the Classroom” is an intensive two-day series of hybrid workshops, panels, and a keynote presentation, all aimed at equipping teachers at the University of Kansas to integrate the tools of the digital humanities into their classrooms. Workshops will be offered in-person and available via zoom. The Workshop is open to the University of Kansas and other institutions in the region.

“Digital Storytelling in the Classroom” provides three levels of support for KU teachers who want to integrate digital humanities tools into their classrooms:

• Instruction. Workshops will cover a range of student-friendly technical tools, from text-mining with Voyant, to creating branching, non-linear narratives with Twine, to creating online maps, to documenting historical sites, to much more. See schedule for details.  
• Support. Any workshop attendee who uses a digital humanities tool in a 2023 KU classroom will have the support of the IDRH and the CTE as they teach the course and implement the tool. Support entails pre-assignment and mid-term consultations as well as a measure of troubleshooting.  
• Funding to use digital humanities tools in the classroom. Through the generosity of the Center for Teaching Excellence, a selection of workshop attendees will receive $500 stipends to support implementation and evaluation of a digital humanities tool in their classroom in 2023 (spring, summer, or fall). Because of limited funding, applicants will be selected competitively. Learn more about Digital Jumpstart Course Funding.

Please register for the Digital Jumpstart Workshop. Registration is not required for in-person participation--but it helps us plan! 

Workshops

View the full schedule on the IDRH website.

Thursday, Oct 20th

12:30 - Clio in the Classroom: Digital History Made Public (David Trowbridge & Dave Tell)

--- Using Omeka for Participatory Archiving with Students (Kaylen Dwyer)

--- Voyant for Students (Randa El Khatib)

2:00 - Break

2:15 - Panel Discussion

3:45 - Reception

4:30 - Keynote Address: "Rethinking the Synchronic Classroom: Concepts and Templates for Balancing the Analog and Digital in Course Construction." (Shawna Ross)

Friday, Oct 21st 

1:30 - Found Media: Students Make Documentary Editions of Internet Sources in Scalar (John Randolph & Kaylen Dwyer)

--- Telling Stories in the Classroom with Interactive Maps and Timelines: An Introduction to StoryMapJS and TimelineJS (Brian Rosenblum)

3:00 - Break

3:15 - Digital Storytelling with Twine (Shawna Ross)

--- Creating a Culture of Possibilities with Podcasting (Tami Albin)