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As students increasingly draw upon digital content as a primary source of information, how might they be taught to be both discriminating consumers as well as producers of online information? Doing history rather than teaching history is not a new approach, but the “doing” part of researching, writing, and publishing now includes drawing upon and creating digitized resources. In this NITLE Shared Academics seminar, NITLE subject-area specialist Michelle Moravec, Aaron Cowan, assistant professor of history at Slippery Rock University, and Kathryn Tomasek, associate professor of history at Wheaton College, provided concrete examples from their own work, and examined the opportunities and challenges of integrating digital humanities into the undergraduate curriculum. These are Dr. Kathryn Tomasek's slides.
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Project-Based Learning, Undergraduate Research, and Digital Methods in the Wheaton College Digital History ProjectKathryn TomasekWheaton College, MassachusettsNITLE Webinar, 14 May 2014
“do history”American Historical AssociationHistorians.org
Inquiry-based LearningHow Students Learn (2005)National Research Councilhttp://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309074339
High-Impact PracticesProject LEAP: Liberal Education and America’s PromiseAmerican Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)https://www.aacu.org/leap/
Extensible Markup Language(XML)
Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml
The Wheaton College Digital History Projecthttp://wheatoncollege.edu/digital-history-project/
Eliza Baylies Chapin WheatonLaban Morey Wheaton
Founders of Wheaton Female Seminary
Maria E. Wood JournalU.S. Women’s History Fall 2004
Eliza Baylies WheatonTravel Journal & Pocket DiariesSpring 2005Summers 2005-2008
Teaching Historical Methods with Text Encoding
History 302
Junior ColloquiumMethods course for History majors
Intended to be taken the semester prior to taking capstone course—Senior Seminar
Students in Senior Seminar are expected to write a research paper of at least twenty pages, not including front and back matter
The paper must be based on original research in primary sources.
Assignment meant to model the process of research and writing
Day BookDaily accounting of transactions that reflect the many business activities of Laban Morey Wheaton between 1828 and 1859
PaymentsRents
Land, equipment
Taxes
Postage
Labor
PurchasesFood
Fabrics and sewing supplies
Lumber and building supplies
Long Term Collaborations
Building a database that can be used in future assignments
Files available for use in other courses on campus.Computer Science
Diaries and accounts can be coded for analysis in US History courses.
Eventually, files will be available for use on other campuses.
We built a website for the Wheaton College Digital History Project in 2010.
TAPAS Project has created a tool that will publish XML files; it has just launched
These projects feed my own research about women, work, and economy in the nineteenth-century United States.
TAPAS: TEI Archiving, Publication, and Access
Servicehttp://tapasproject.org/
Transcription and markup, as part of scaffolded assignments in which students engage deeply with archival materials and write about the stories they uncover, offer one model for the effective use of digital tools in teaching the practice of history to undergraduates.
kathryntomasek.orgencodinghfrs.org
