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News and Announcements | November 9, 2017

CUNY DHI “Lighting Talks” Event This Tuesday

By ACERT and Jeff Allred
Topics : Events, Opportunities

The CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative is holding its annual “Lightning Talks” event on Tuesday, November 14th, 2017. They are inviting students, faculty, staff or groups from all disciplines to join and share their ongoing, current, and recent work, and to get a glimpse of the wide variety of digital projects that can be found across the CUNYverse.

Teaching Tips | October 30, 2017

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Pedagogy and/as Play: “Playing” a Novel via Ivanhoe for WordPress

By ACERT and Jeff Allred
Topics : Events, Student Engagement

Jeff Allred details his adaption of Billy Budd into a Wordpress-based role-playing game and how it engaged his students. His project will also be featured as part of a "digital panel" at the American Studies Association conference in early November.

ACERT Connections | October 24, 2017

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Hunter Taskscapes

By ACERT and Jeff Allred
Topics : Student Engagement

This week, ACERT invited two CUNY colleagues to campus, Maura Smale (Head Librarian, City Tech) and Mariana Regalado (Library, Brooklyn College). They presented their work on what they call, borrowing from social anthropologist Tim Ingold, the “taskscapes” of students from several CUNY campuses (including Hunter’s).

Teaching Tips | May 10, 2017

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Nothing Succeeds Like Failure

By ACERT and Jeff Allred
Topics : Student Engagement, Technology

Narrative of instructive failed assignment as part of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy’s wonderful Teaching Fails feature.

News and Announcements | February 6, 2017

NYC Digital Humanities Week

By ACERT and Jeff Allred
Topics : Events

Today marks the first day of NYCDH Week, a week-long series of workshops, lightning talks, and social events for digital humanists of all stripes and at all skill levels. There is a kickoff gathering all day today at the CUNY GC and an exciting array of workshops and discussions on platforms, computing languages, and more general scholarly and pedagogical topics going on all week.

News and Announcements | February 8, 2016

NYC Digital Humanities Week, February 8-12

By ACERT and Jeff Allred
Topics : Events

The annual NYC DH Week next is a fantastic event for anyone curious about the digital humanities or interested in building skills with tools ranging from Omeka to Python.

Tool Talk | March 24, 2015

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Annotating texts in the classroom

By ACERT and Jeff Allred
Topics : Assignments & exams, Online writing and reflection

Unlike traditional, print-based annotating, the newer practices emerging in networked digital platforms are intensely social.

What We’re Reading | February 24, 2015

Debates in the Digital Humanities series

By ACERT and Jeff Allred
Topics : Test Category

For those of you who are curious about the "digital humanities" there is no better place to start than the 2012 Debates in the Digital Humanities volume edited by CUNY's own Matt Gold.