Digital Humanities at the University of Vermont Hope Greenberg Center for Teaching and Learning

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Digital Humanities at the University of Vermont

Hope Greenberg

Center for Teaching and Learning

Digital Humanities at UVM:

A 20 Year History of Failure

“I have not failed. I've just found

10,000 ways that haven't worked.”

- Thomas Alva Edison

Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)

Academic Computing

Services (ACS)

12,000 students, 7 Colleges, over 100 programs3,000+ faculty and staffCentral and Distributed ITAcademic Support: Libraries, which includes:

Writing in the Disciplines

(WID)

ACS Tradition

“We will explore we will recommend we will encourage we will teach you how to do it

but we can’t do it for you.”

Google Earth

GIS PowerPoint

Blackboard

web

blogs

wikispodcasts

video

SPSSEndNote/Zotero

Word

phpxmldSpace

CSSPhotoShop

MySQL

We support PEOPLE

Omeka

But what about digital humanities?

The Idea

We can build and support an infrastructure for humanities faculty

and students to create the digital resources they need to advance

their teaching, learning, and scholarship goals.

Experiment 1:

R&D

Marketing

Experiment 2:

Inspire with exemplars

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Experiment 3:

“Grow” student expertise

Experiment 4:

Combine forces

Experiment 5:

Image Collections

Experiment 6:

A more formal approach…

i.e., get some $$

But…

There are collections and then there are exhibits…

Student Projects

“If we knew what we were doing it wouldn’t be called research.”

ANTH 250: Museum Anthropology

ANTH 196: Introduction to Museum Studies

HST095: American Women’s History

“…a hands-on, historically-grounded seminar that takes the history of Vermont agriculture and cheese production as its inspiration and object. In the academic world, a seminar is a class conducted through discussion… This seminar has two related parts. First, it will introduce students to the history of cheese. Our textbook provides a global perspective while our articles focus on the case of Vermont. Guest lecturers will visit our class to enhance your knowledge of the subject. Second, we will learn how to use and think about key aspects of digital history. The instruction in digital history will culminate in a major collaborative project that contributes new knowledge to our understanding of the history of cheese.”

HST095: Digital History: A Case Study of Vermont Artisan CheeseInstructors: Melanie Gustafson, Hope Greenberg

Questions:

hope.greenberg@uvm.edu