28 Apr 2021
by Paul Schacht, CDL Director
Labels: News
digital humanities
Partial view of a manuscript page from a collection of works on astronomy and astronomical instruments in the Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The collection is part of the Muslim World Manuscripts project, with which Geneseo history professor Mohammad Sadegh Ansari worked in preparing his doctoral dissertation on the science of music in the medieval Islamic world. Public domain. Learn more about Professor Ansari’s work with this and other manuscripts in this interview on the Columbia University Global Studies Blog
This fall, Geneseo Assistant Professor of History Mohammad Sadegh Ansari will offer a 4-credit course in digital humanities. The course, Digital Tools in History: Digital Humanities (HIST 303), will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:30 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.
The course has no prerequisites.
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26 Apr 2021
by Amanda Wentworth Schmidt, CDL Digital Humanities and Learning Coordinator
Labels: News
online learning
workshops
Photo by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash
In this second micro-workshop, Laurie Fox makes another appearance to share more of her amazing productivity tips all related to designing and sticking to a to-do list! There’s still time for these tips to get you through the rest of this semester so you can finish strong. And, of course, the info shared in this session will help you far beyond this semester and into your future at Geneseo as well as your post-grad and even professional experience.
Keep reading to find the recording and get a peak at what’s next in our micro-workshop series!
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19 Apr 2021
by Amanda Wentworth Schmidt, CDL Digital Humanities and Learning Coordinator
Labels: News
online learning
workshops
Photo by JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash
In response to our Conversation on Student Workload in Online Courses, the CDL made a commitment to provide the Geneseo student community with easily-consumable workshops and resources to make the remainder of their (hopefully) last semester of pandemic online learning even a little more manageable.
Lucky for the CDL, we have productivity expert extraordinaire, CIT’s Director for Education Technology and the CDL’s Assistant Director for Online Learning, Laurie Fox to run micro-workshops on efficiently managing all sorts of obligations in the form of to-do lists.
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09 Apr 2021
by Amanda Wentworth Schmidt, CDL Digital Humanities and Learning Coordinator
Labels: Perspectives
online learning
online pedagogy
covid-19
Students, faculty, and staff are finding it harder to keep everything together during the pandemic.
The March 18 community conversation on student workload in online courses, co-sponsored by the Student Association and the Center for Digital Learning, gave all involved a lot to think about.
The event invited students, staff, and faculty to talk candidly with each other about their experiences with and perspectives on student workload during “emergency remote” pandemic instruction. On social media, students throughout higher education, including those at Geneseo, were describing how burdened they feel. On this issue and others impacting students’ mental, emotional, academic health, they were also insisting that talking isn’t enough. Action was required. Soon.
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06 Apr 2021
by Kiara Massar, Contributor
Labels: Perspectives
online learning
antiracism
intersession 2021
Author Angie Thomas at a book signing. Photo by Flickr user seanbirm (Sean Birmingham), CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0
Editor’s note: This post is one in a series by Geneseo faculty who in Intersession 2021 taught courses that either focused centrally on issues of racial justice or incorporated those issues via dedicated modules and interwoven content. To find all posts in this series, part of Geneseo’s project of becoming an antiracist college, look for the tag “intersession 2021”.
My goal for my Interssession 2021 course, Topics in Literature: Race and Representation in Text and Media, was to not ignore the racial tension and injustices that are occurring in our country. I wanted students to be given the opportunity to explore these topics and issues in a creative, safe format. With this in mind, I chose the texts Dear Martin by Nic Stone and The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. I chose these two texts to incorporate into my syllabi as a way of starting the conversation on racism and racial injustice. I wanted students to read and expand their understanding of racial issues and the treatment that Black Americans face.
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