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Elementary I Particle Passport title slide, noting “Hokkaido to Toyama.”

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Particle Passport: A Collection-Based Incentive for Learning Japanese

Mayumi Matsumoto

Japanese particles are a notoriously difficult concept for Japanese language learners to master. The Particle Passport uses the set collection game to incentivize students to learn the particles by completing required activities, homework, and extra credit to earn passport stickers.

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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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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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 large protest passes under an underpass in Los Angeles.

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Social Justice as Theory and Pedagogical Practice: A Digital Assignment for the COVID Age

Lauren M. Rosenblum and Nathan Ross

This community-wide online assignment enabled students in this first-year learning community to learn digital research skills and apply a diverse set of readings to their personal experiences of social justice issues during the COVID-19 pandemic.