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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
