Digital Pedagogy Showcase Tuesday, May 2, 2017 12 – 1:30 pm in HUM-2 359 Get some syllabus inspiration! The inaugural cohort of the Digital Instruction Project lead this Brown Bag Session about developing and implementing new digital assignments in their classes. Join us as we discuss the benefits and challenges of adding digital tools into… Continue Reading New!! Pictures 5/2/17 // Digital Pedagogy Showcase
Undergraduate Digital Research Symposium Wednesday, April 19, 2017 9 – 2 pm in the Digital Scholarship Commons The Digital Scholarship Commons is thrilled to announce the first Undergraduate Digital Research Symposium on April 19, 2017. At UC Santa Cruz, undergraduate students are engaged in creative, critical research using digital tools and platforms. This symposium will… Continue Reading New! Photos | 4/19/17 // Undergraduate Digital Research Symposium
Thursday, March 9 | 4 – 5 PM, Location TBD Digital Project Discussion Session with Alan Craig If you’re working on a digital project and interested in integrating Virtual Reality or Augmented Reality components, bring your project idea, template, or work-in-progress to this open session. Email rdebling [at] ucsc.edu to coordinate time to discuss your work… Continue Reading 3/9/17 // Digital Project Discussion
Wednesday, March 8 | 4 – 6 PM in Humanities 210 Alan Craig, “VR, AR, and the Brain” Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are gaining traction in their use in education. VR and AR offer unique affordances that are beneficial to teaching and learning. This presentation will look at how we learn, and… Continue Reading 3/8/17 // Alan Craig
Wednesday, February 22 | 4 – 6 PM in Kresge Town Hall Digital Space and Difficult History: Curating the African American and Holocaust Museums A conversation between Michael Berenbaum and Angel Nieves The new National Museum of African American History and Culture and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum both translate difficult, often traumatic, histories into… Continue Reading 2/22/17 // Digital Space and Difficult History
4 – 6 pm in Cowell Provost House | Digital Humanities Happy Hour Join the Digital Humanities working group for an informal happy hour following a presentation about 3D Modeling and the Soweto Township by Angel Nieves, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Hamilton College. Learn more about Digital Humanities and how 3D modeling can be integrated… Continue Reading 2/21/2017 // DH Happy Hour with Angel Nieves
3 – 4 pm in Humanities 210 Angel Nieves: 3D Modeling and the Soweto Historic GIS project The Soweto Historic GIS Project is a multi-layered historical geographic information system that explores the social, economic and political dimensions of urban development under South African apartheid regimes (1904/1948-1994) in Johannesburg’s all-black township of Soweto. Soweto (an acronym for… Continue Reading 2/21/2017 // Angel Nieves
Spatial Humanities/DH Reading Group Tuesday, November 29 | 4 – 6 PM Digital Scholarship Commons (McHenry Library, Ground Floor) The Spatial Humanities interest group is hosting the first reading group event of the quarter. Explore the Stanford Press publication, Enchanting the Desert, and discuss the work with a group of faculty, graduate students and staff… Continue Reading 11/29/16 // Spatial Humanities Reading Group
From Concept to Project: A Digital Mapping Workshop for Graduate Students with Yoh Kawano Friday, November 4 | 1:30 pm – 4 pm Humanities 402 Are you developing a digital map but feel unsure about your next steps? Or, having trouble reconciling the complexity of spatial theory with the nuts-and-bolts of GIS? Grad students interested in digital mapping… Continue Reading 11/4/16 // Graduate Student Workshop on Mapping with Yoh Kawano
Digital Research Happy Hour Tuesday, October 25 | 5 – 7pm Cowell Provost House The first DH event of the quarter! Reconnect with the DH community on campus at an informal Digital Research Happy Hour. Join us for a Lightening Style round robin, share your research, get inspired, and enjoy a glass of wine. This Happy… Continue Reading 10/25/16 // Digital Research Happy Hour