Digital Writing Dance : Work : Learn : Teach : Write Prelude In a former life I was a dancer. A former life, or a previous era: BGS (Before Grad School). This is how I used to think of the countless hours I spent studying ballet in New York and Seattle, and performing with a university-affiliated company as an undergraduate in
Keeping Time What do we mean when we use the phrase, “in the real world”? As many of us are in a state of transition between school and work, styles of work, or a balance of both, are we living a less real life if we don’t work for a corporation?
Collaboration Love in the Time of Peer Review Over the weekend of November 21-23, the Hybrid Pedagogy editorial board gathered in Washington D.C. for an intensive working retreat. During that time, we collaborated on the following article — 10 authors and reviewers working together in a single document over three hours to brainstorm, draft, and revise the piece.
Digital culture Humanists and Our Books, Pt. 2: Becoming Books On Tuesday, June 3, Hybrid Pedagogy released an announcement and CFP [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/page-two/cfp-generative-literature-project/] related to the first long-form project to be undertaken by Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing. Two weeks later, we launched a crowdfunding campaign [https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-interactive-music-theory-textbook] on Indiegogo to underwrite the creation
Digital culture Humanists and Our Books, Pt. 1: The Work of Humanism On Tuesday, June 3, Hybrid Pedagogy released an announcement and CFP [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/page-two/cfp-generative-literature-project/] related to the first long-form project to be undertaken by Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing. In the coming weeks, look for another announcement regarding a second project we have in the works. Kris Shaffer and
Copyright Bend Until It Breaks: Digital Humanities and Resistance “The problem is to begin with a conception of power relations that grants that resistance is always possible but not always successful.”~ David Sholle, “Resistance: Pinning Down a Wandering Concept in Cultural Studies Discourse” Why resist? [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/4845676054_e1c97d2b28_b.jpg] Image courtesy
Academic Labor CFP: The Problem of Contingency in Higher Education Read the collection of articles published from this CFP. [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/tag/contingency-cfp/] The case ofMargaret Mary Vojtko [http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/death-of-an-adjunct-703773/] made much more public a conversation that’s been heating up in academe. Vojtko, an adjunct professor at Duquesne University, passed away
Calls for Papers CFP: A Dialogue among K-12 and Post-secondary Pedagogies and Pedagogues Don’t throw the past away. You might need it some rainy day. Dreams can come true again, When everything old is new again. —Peter Allen, “Everything Old Is New Again” Click here to read the articles that responded to this CFP. [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/tag/k-12-cfp/] My oldest
Digital Humanities Building in the Humanities Isn’t New “For children can accomplish the renewal of existence in a hundred unfailing ways.” — Walter Benjamin, “Unpacking My Library [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Illuminations/mV06rdTclagC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT69&printsec=frontcover] “ “Turn your data into a story, into a game, into art.” — Mark Sample, “The Poetics of
Copyright Of Icebergs and Ownership: A Common-Sense Approach to Intellectual Property Recently, my colleague and Hybrid Pedagogy co-conspirator, Pete Rorabaugh, and I spoke at theEmory Symposium on Digital Publication, Undergraduate Research, and Writing [http://ewprogram.com/symposium/]. Over the course of two days of discussion, it became clear that, in order to realize the full potential of digital publication initiatives like
Copyright Bright Lines and Golden Rules: Copyright, Fair Use, Critical Pedagogy Have you ever overheard this conversation, or something similar, in the departmental copy room? One teacher says, “How many pages of a book can I copy and still call it fair use? Another teacher replies, “I think it’s ten percent (or ten pages).” I overhear these conversationsall the time.
Digital Humanities Digital Humanities Made Me a Better Pedagogue: a Crowdsourced Article Pedagogy is inherently collaborative. Our work as teachers doesn’t (or shouldn’t) happen in a vacuum. In “Hybridity, pt. 3: What Does Hybrid Pedagogy Do? [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/What_Does_Hybrid_Pedagogy_Do.html] ,” Pete and Jesse write, “Teaching is a practice. Good teaching is an
