Digital Humanities
As an Instructional Technology Specialist in the Office of Digital Pedagogies and Initiatives (DPI) and the Digital Liberal Arts Research Initiative (DLA) at Penn State, I collaborate with fellow DPI/DLA staff and residential faculty to integrate digital technologies into Liberal Arts research and scholarship. Active projects include consultations for methodologies in long-term social science research, workshops on data management and visualization, and interactive technologies in the classroom. Explore some of these projects below, and be on the lookout for new ones!
Date: September 2023
Skills: Presentation, storytelling, teaching DH for faculty and staff
Delivery: Virtual (Zoom)
Resources: Presentation PDF
This presentation introduced faculty in Liberal Arts to the concept of digital humanities, how to make choices for integrating DH in the classroom, different types of DH activities, and resources offered by the Office of Digital Pedagogies and Initiatives and Digital Liberal Arts Research Initiative at Penn State.
Date: September 2023
Skills: Gamification in the classroom, point-and-click coding (Twine), interactive storytelling
Delivery: In-Person, Students in Groups
Resources: Escape Room for LA 83 Students at Penn State (Executable)
First-year students matched job skills with existing majors in the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State using this escape room game in class. Keywords and clue solutions available upon request.
Date: April 2023
Skills: R/R Studio, ggplot2, linear mixed effects modeling, branding
Delivery: Virtual/Zoom
Resources: SIP Data Visualization Workshop Repository (GitHub)
Graduate students studying Spanish linguistics learned about best practices in visualizing categorical and continuous data, in accordance with their research and course projects.