Chelsea A.M. Gardner
This assignment was created for a 200-level course cross-listed between Classics and Women & Gender Studies, entitled “Women in Mediterranean Antiquity.” The website is a work-in-progress, and any questions or collaboration inquiries can be sent to chelsea.gardner@acadiau.ca.
Read more… Ushering “Women in Antiquity” into the Modern Classroom
Zach Coble
A library workshop introduces participants to using Python-based web scraping for data collection and raises important questions for how we think about teaching computational thinking and prepare users to consider the ethical implications of the tool.
Read more… Computational Thinking–Centered Pedagogy: A Collecting Data with Web Scraping Workshop
Erica Richardson
This piece describes how I tried to get students in an introductory world literature survey course to link similar ideas and themes in their blog posts by asking them to create tags. I envisioned that these tags and the corresponding connections made would form an evolving archive of literary themes and cultural issues. However, the resulting tags were overly specific to each student’s individual blog post, which obscured connections rather than forming them. Ultimately this piece illustrates the challenges and potential of tags as a form of collaborative metadata that frames and develops student understanding of literary criticism.
Brennan Keegan
This submission details a digital and collaborative encyclopedia entry assignment as a building block for creating research literacy and confidence. Using Padlet, an online platform that enables students and faculty to create digital bulletin boards, students compile and visualize diverse sources into one interactive project.
Andrew C. Stout
Review of Roberto Busa, S. J., and the Emergence of Humanities Computing: The Priest and the Punched Cards (New York: Routledge, 2016). $150.00 hardback, $38.47 ebook.
