Slides to accompany my keynote to the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education conference @ Carleton University May 3 2013

1. Some Assembly Required
Teaching through/with/about/by/because of, the Digital Humanities
‘Henj’, c 2011 Stevyn Colgan
Shawn Graham,
Carleton University
@electricarchaeo

2. ‘Boy with Commodore Vic 20 (1984)’ , Michael Surran. Wikimedia Commons

6. DH Strand 2:
Deformation
Image at: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/andrew/scs/cs/15-463/f07/proj_final/www/mdougla1/

7. Historical Friction

8. Classic Romero Zombies, cc by Pedro Vezini, http://www.flickr.com/photos/pedrovezini/4791322423/
Practical Necromancy: simulating our beliefs about past phenomena to explore the unintended
consequences of those beliefs.

9. Recap:
Key trends in DH for
education
• Strand 1: implications
of a cyborg
consciousness
• Strand 2: deformance
of our materials
• Strand 3: deformance
of our thinking
c. 1590, World Map in a Fool’s Head http://www.retronaut.com/2011/03/world-map-in-a-fools-head/

10. Which is rather similar to
(experimental) archaeology, too.
Making as a way of knowing.
http://archaeology.about.com/od/archaeology101/tp/s
ubfields.htm
http://annrocks.co.uk/category/experimental-
archaeology/
http://www.archeologiasperimentale.it/ingleseprincipa
le.htm

11. ...and it’s worth remembering that
the roots of DH go back to the
1940s, and the work of the
Jesuit, Father Roberto Busa.
Not the latest fad, then.

12. So what would university teaching look
like, if that were our foundation?
Ruined Chapel, cc Tony Austin http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ruined_Chapel.jpg
...not as full of holes as this,
trust me...

13. Caveat: 1994 Shawn
‘Salt Shaker’ cc Dubravko Soric http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salt_shaker_on_white_background.jpg

14. • Things I have tried:
– Game based learning
– Gamefication
– The Screwmeneutical
Imperative
(and you can read about these at
electricarchaeology.ca)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:One_man_band,_CDV_by_Knox,_c1865.JPG

15. Epic Fails
‘A very big birdhouse’ cc James Gray-King
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesgrayking/2158280666/

16. Epic Wins
Jeff McNeill,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffmcneill/4194259736/size
s/o/in/photostream/

17. Cc Jpmueller99
http://www.flickr.com/photos/redarrow101/4414917091/sizes/m/in/photostream/ OZinOH http://www.flickr.com/photos/75905404@N00/773504348/

18. Again I hear
you say:
So what
would
university
teaching look
like, if DH was
our
foundation?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egg_Under_Construction.png
Construction of ‘The Egg’, Albany NY, 1976.

19. DH will save us,
right?
Just sprinkle DH,
right?
…and the backlash.

20. DH pushback

21. Know Your MOOCs
Corporate,
one-size-fits-all
xMOOCs,
from the US
Personal
learning
environments,
cMOOCS,
from Canada

22. Alright, get to the point: What would
you do, Shawn?
cc Harald Hoyer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hhoyer/3784430219/

23. Well…
• Need to think more about how our
institutional processes form the worldviews
and possibility spaces for/of our students
• And maybe, we would put things together
differently.

24. Turn the University inside-out.

25. No More Walled Gardens
Massive? Bah.
Digital media is about
connection. Make it
personal.

26. Domain of One’s Own

27. …because right now, that’s not happening.

28. The Embedded University
Forget massively ‘open’.
Think massively
embedded
Think massively
accessible
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2671548

30. Some Assembly Required.