Teaching Digital Skills in an Archives and Public History Curriculum

Wosh, Peter J.; Hajo, Cathy Moran; Katz, Esther

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“…5 Peter J. Wosh, Cathy Moran Hajo, and Esther Katz have also recognized the utility of digital archives as a site for teaching much-needed digital skills. 6 Extending these arguments further, we can also understand the project as a site of knowledge exchange and production, one that depends on the act of discourse, networks of dialogic acts, in regard to both the manuscripts themselves and the individuals and institutions engaged in the act of documentary editing. As Tanya Clement notes, the power of teaching students within digital humanities is the power of media literacy: "project-based learning in digital humanities demonstrates that when students learn how to study digital media, they are learning how to study knowledge production as it is represented in symbolic constructs that circulate within information systems that are themselves a form of knowledge production."…”

Section: Scenes Of Discourse: Archival Endeavorsmentioning

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Pedagogies of Scholarly Editing and Digital History in the Seward Family Digital Archive

Sutherland

2022

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Those of us who transform primary materials into digital editions and archives understand that our work products communicate and contribute to a wider scholarly ecosystem; moreover, the act of producing published archival artifacts serves as its own form of internal knowledge production and incremental guide for future work. When digital initiatives are deeply informed by the minds and labor of undergraduate students, however, the dialogic interchange between pedagogy, methodology, and discourse is both intensely rewarding and occasionally daunting. Such is the case for the Seward Family Digital Archive. Indeed, its example promotes a unique model for several elds, including scholarly editing, public history, pedagogy, and digital humanities. Overview and HistoryThe Seward Family Digital Archive consists of letters, journals, and paper ephemera of the William Henry and Frances Seward family; it can be accessed publicly at sewardproject.org. 1 Since the project's inception in 2013, the work of documentary editing has bene ted from the robust collaborative support of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, archivists, and librarians. Likewise, the Seward Family Digital Archive's principal investigator, Dr. Thomas Slaughter, is also the professor of a series of courses that integrate transcription, annotation, editing, and markup in XML using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) as part of the course's assigned material. 2 Through grant funding, the project managers are able to pay about a dozen undergraduate and graduate students to work ten months of the year on all facets of documentary editing. Students on the Seward Project are essential members of the team and take part in drafting project documentation, performing transcription, annotation, and editing, and advising on the future directions of the project. Consequently, student agency and direct involvement through pedagogical coursework and employment in the project have gured centrally in the Seward Family Digital Archive since its commencement. 3 Importantly, in this work, students both gain exposure to the intersecting elds of scholarly editing and digital history, and give back to the scholarly and methodological discourses that support this archival achievement.The University of Rochester's Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation Department (RBSCP) houses the physical papers featured in the digital archive, and the work of digitizing, collating, and handling the manuscripts is undertaken in close collaboration with archivists and librarians. The manuscript material spans major events in American history from about 1817 to 1920, in which Seward and his family were at the forefront. They include land purchases in western New York, the abolition movement in upstate New York, the 1860 presidential election, the Civil War, the assassination of President Lincoln and attempted assassination of Seward himself, and Reconstruction. Vital social concerns, such as woman's su rage, prison reform, medicine and health, family life, childrearing practices...

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Section: Scenes Of Discourse: Archival Endeavorsmentioning

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Pedagogies of Scholarly Editing and Digital History in the Seward Family Digital Archive

Sutherland

2022

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Collaborative Knowledge and Merging Media: Teaching Victorian Periodical Print Using Digital Tools

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Hingston²

2015

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Using our teaching experiences as case studies, we demonstrate how the development of collaborative digital projects for students blends academic and public dialogue in way that mirrors Victorian periodical print culture. We discuss how our use of digital tools in Victorian literature courses produced profound and engaged student learning. These projects allowed students to participate in Victorian scholarship and understand their work as part of a broader academic conversation through the culture of sharing embedded in Web 2.0. Working with digital tools also helped them develop a more complex understanding of the contexts of Victorian literature.

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Koncept pedagoškega dela v arhivih

Miloševič¹

2022

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Teaching Digital Skills in an Archives and Public History Curriculum

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Pedagogies of Scholarly Editing and Digital History in the Seward Family Digital Archive

Pedagogies of Scholarly Editing and Digital History in the Seward Family Digital Archive

Collaborative Knowledge and Merging Media: Teaching Victorian Periodical Print Using Digital Tools

Koncept pedagoškega dela v arhivih

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