Workshop facilitated by J.J. Sylvia IV and Lea Shell

What’s the difference between playing games in the classroom and gamifying the classroom? Googling the answer can easily lead to confusion, and good examples of gamification in education are difficult to find. We’ll walk through basics, including the dynamics, mechanics, and components of gamification before working together to brainstorm best practices for implementing gamification in the classroom.

The Creativity Studio would be the ideal room for this session.

Talk Session Proposal by Jennifer Ahern-Dodson and Aria Chernik

Digital pedagogy does not denote merely the practice of “teaching with technology.” Similar to Jesse Stommel’s notion of hybrid pedagogy, we understand digital pedagogy to be an orientation toward sustained, critical reflection on how emergent technology and digital culture fundamentally transform not only where we teach and learn but also the kinds of knowledge we can produce. Digital pedagogy embraces the freeplay and indeterminacy of intellectual rigor and is not defined by the use of discrete classroom practices or digital tools. We propose a session in which participants articulate the affordances of digital pedagogy and knowledge and strategize about how we can productively reach out to colleagues and promote institutional change to embrace and facilitate these affordances.

From Data to Art: Getting Artistic with Data
Markus Wust, Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian, North Carolina State University Libraries
Before 3pm

Like Angela’s data visualization proposal, this session would also be about data and how they can be transformed. However, in this case, the transformation is not meant to facilitate the interpretation and analysis of these data, but rather to create art, such as music, visual art, or poetry out of any kind of data (scientific data sets, usage logs, etc.). I would like to talk with you about possible approaches and collaborations and show some current and upcoming projects at Hunt Library.

Best,
Markus

Hello everyone,

I would like to propose the follow workshop for THATCamp Digital Knowledge 2014:

From Imagination to Visualization: Getting Comfortable with Data Representations
Angela Zoss, Data Visualization Coordinator, Duke University
Friday, March 28, 2:30-3:30pm

If you’ve been afraid to try data visualization because you don’t have a lot of experience with software or data, this workshop is for you!  Humanities data are notoriously complicated and uncertain, and standard tools don’t always make it easy to produce visualizations that reflect that complexity.  In the first half of the workshop, I’ll go over some examples of and guidelines for and the basic ways that computer programs expect data to be represented.  In the second half of the workshop we’ll walk through an easy data visualization tool, Raw (raw.densitydesign.org/), to learn about a few different types of visualizations and how they might relate to humanities research.  If you bring a laptop, you’ll be able to follow along with the Raw demo.

Thanks in advance for any feedback on the idea, and I look forward to attending on Friday!

Best,
Angela