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Three images side-by-side-by-side. The first is a digital facsimile of a letter; the second is a copy of that letter transcribed into a Word document, and the third is a copy of that same letter with xml tags added.

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Scaffolding Text Encoding

J.A.T. Smith and Rachel N. Hogan

This article describes a structured approach to teaching text encoding for beginning digital humanists as part of a broader theoretical and practical instruction in textual editing and criticism.

A variety of laptops sit, viewed from above, on a table, worked by hands also using external hard drives, phones, and headphones, alongside snacks and tea.

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Assignments / Short Form Pieces

Implementing Technology Assignments Developed from a Faculty Technology Fellows Program

Christopher T. O’Brien and Lora Walter

This article describes two assignments from a Faculty Technology Fellows program: one used social media to disseminate scholarly information about childhood and adolescent development, and the second used the application Flip to record an oral presentation about the importance and process of nursing licensure.

A black, wearable Fitbit lies on a table, displaying a user's health information.

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Assignments / Short Form Pieces

Strategies for Analyzing Ephemeral Media: Phenomenological Description

Mikki Kressbach, Ivan Martinez-Medina, and Thomas Streed

This assignment illustrates how phenomenological description can be used to analyze ephemeral media and mediated experiences.

A JITP article, as rendered in an XML WordPress export.

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Behind the Seams / Short Form Pieces

Troublescraping: Migrating JITP’s Archive to Manifold

Brandon Walsh

This piece finds Brandon Walsh in commentary around the challenges of standardizing over 300 WordPress articles to be restaged in layout as Manifold texts. Brandon walks readers through the technical and procedural steps underlying this stage of the migration process, in turn highlighting the oft-hidden process by which text data is normalized and translated across open publishing platforms.

A masked teacher at the front of the room gives a presentation on the Dominican education system.

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Short Form Pieces / Teaching Fails

HyFlex Faith and Teaching Fails: The Afterlife of Pandemic Pedagogy

Alyshia Galvéz and Jessica Yood

This essay reckons with a failed pandemic experiment. Two faculty members from different disciplines describe how the HyFlex platform, which allows students to access their courses digitally or in person, proved inhospitable to and dangerous for critical, community-based teaching and learning.

Articles by Patrick

Scaffolding Text Encoding

Strategies for Analyzing Ephemeral Media: Phenomenological Description

Troublescraping: Migrating JITP’s Archive to Manifold

HyFlex Faith and Teaching Fails: The Afterlife of Pandemic Pedagogy

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