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Humanities 2.0: How Web 2.0 is Changing the Humanities Classroom
Andrea Eastman-MullinsAugust 8, 2007
Table of Contents
• My background & Alexander Street Press
• “Humanities 2.0” tools
• World Literature: text analysis
• Music: playlists
• Theatre: annotated video clips
• History: document projects
• Interdisciplinary: Synchrotext
• Summary
Alexander Street Press…
• Based in Alexandria, Virginia
• Founded in 2000, now 68 people
• Publishes high quality digital collections in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
• Primary materials, audio, video, some journals
• Published and previously unpublished
• Won awards from CHOICE, Library Journal, The Charleston Advisor.
What we do…North American History
Drama
Black History and Literature
Women’s History and Literature
Latino / L.A. Studies
Religion & Social Thought
PsychologyMusic
World Literature
• Search features for text analysis• PhiloLogic software developed at the University of
Chicago
Answers questions like… (in Latino Literature)– How many times do Cuban authors use island or homeland
versus Puerto Rican authors?– Show me all works written in the 1880s that discuss
esclavatura/escravidão (slavery). – Give me all works written in Spanish with the word
dictadura/ditadura (dictatorship) within 5 words of guerra (war).
– Show me the novels of Chicano women authors who were born in California.
World Literature: Text Analysis
Can the gender of Shakespeare’s characters be determined by word use?
Sobhan Raj Hota, Shlomo Argamon, Rebecca Chung (Illinois Institute of Technology)
http://lingcog.iit.edu/doc/hota_dhcs2006.pdf
Music: Playlists
• Playlists on Alexander Street’s music products – over 19,000 users
• Over 100,000 playlists created so far– 800 created by Alexander Street editors– 38,000 user created– 70,000 derivative playlists
• Playlists in the classroom:– Organize tracks around a theme, i.e. Minimalism– Add to Blackboard using permanent URLs – Use for listening tests– Students use for self-tests
Music: Playlists
Music: Playlists
Music: Playlists for Listening Tests
Theatre: Annotated Video Clips
Theatre in Video– 250 full length productions & over 100 documentaries– streaming video– User-generated clips– Playlists
In the Classroom– Isolate and compare the storm scenes in different productions
of King Lear. – Organize a playlist around a theme (Theatre History: Changes
in style from Molière to Ibsen to Miller)– Have students add their own clips to a production
(impressions of seeing a production vs. reading the play in Theatre Appreciation)
– Group plays and clips of interviews with playwrights, directors, etc.
History: Document Projects
Kathryn Sklar & Tom Dublin, SUNY Binghamton General Editors
Women and Social Movements, 1600-2000– Began at SUNY Binghamton– Primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book
reviews, Web site reviews, and teaching tools– Documents the multiplicity of women’s activism in public life
Over 75 “Document Projects”– Pose interpretive questions (“How did women participate in
the Underground Railroad?”)– Answer the questions by examining 20-50 primary documents – Model the process of historical analysis for students
History: Document Projects
Examples: • How Did the Ladies Association of Philadelphia Shape
New Forms of Women's Activism During the American Revolution, 1780-1781?
• How Did White Women Aid Former Slaves During and After the Civil War, 1863-1891?
• How Did Black and White Southern Women Campaign to End Lynching, 1890-1942?
• How and Why Did the Guerrilla Girls Alter the Art Establishment in New York City, 1985-1995?
• How Have Recent Social Movements Shaped Civil Rights Legislation for Women? The 1994 Violence Against Women Act.
History: Document Project Assignments
Professor Nancy Page FernandezCalifornia State Polytechnic University at Pomona
Write a 10-12 page memoir assuming the persona of a woman living in 1859 using, in part, resources from the following document projects: – Oberlin Women and Antebellum Social Movements– The Appeal of Female Moral Reform– The Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform Movement– Bible Communism and Women of the Oneida
Community– Lucretia Mott's Reform Networks
History: Document Project Assignments
Professor Joyce Hanson, California State, San Bernardino Threaded discussion on suffrage movement documents.
History: Second Wave Wiki
http://scholar.alexanderstreet.com
Interdisciplinary: Synchrotext
http://performedwords.org/
Interdisciplinary: Synchrotext
http://performedwords.org/
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