Digital Jumpstart Workshop Keynote Presentation:  "Rethinking the Synchronic Classroom: Concepts and Templates for Balancing the Analog and Digital in Course Construction"

Shawna Ross, Associate Professor of British Literature and the Digital Humanities, Department of English, Texas A&M University

Co-Author of Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom: A Practical Introduction for Teachers, Lecturers, and Students (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017).

In the wake of the Covid pandemic, instructors have been forced to react to quick shifts in course delivery mode. One opportunity presented by this crisis is to rethink all our classes as intentional blends of asynchronous and synchronous events, as well as of analog and digital means of learning. This talk will not only explain how and why you might want to experiment with course construction in this way, but also provide a series of formulae that model how to combine the synchronous with the asynchronous, and the analog with the digital, in ways that further your course objectives.