The morning is devoted to brief (5 minute) lightning round presentations followed by digital demonstrations highlighting the current projects of the participants.  

 

Sketchnoting for Better Learning

Rebecca Moss, University of Minnesota

Using visual note taking or sketch noting when engaged in learning can lead to better outcomes.

 

Steps of the Sun

Chris Martin, Emily Oliver, Andrew Wilson, Paul Bernhardt, Noah Sombeck, August Lindgren-Ruby, all Carleton College

Steps of the Sun is a poetic audio walk that brings Carleton history into dialogue with broader ideas surrounding measurement, film, disability, literature, elegy, astronomy, music and economics.

 

The Right(s) Data

Molly Huber, Minnesota Digital Library

Implementation of standardized rights statements across digital collections creates data that can be used in a variety of innovative ways

  

ArcGIS in an English Classroom

Brooke Schmolke & Sierra Lomuto, Macalester College

Students in a 300 English Course focused on the Global Middle Ages worked in pairs to develop ArcGIS Storymaps over the course of the semester.

 

Academic Community Engagement Using ArcGIS and Omeka

Elena McGrath, Carleton College

Students conducted social research on Northfield and surrounding communities and created Omeka exhibits to organize findings into visual and text-based narratives for community partners.

 

Curious City: In, Out, Above, Beyond Saint Paul

Ashley Nepp and students, Macalester College Geography Department

A cultural atlas of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Created as a design and geovisualization class this spring semester, published and shared digitally, and printed locally.

 

Leveraging Big Data in Historical Research

Martin Hoffman, Austin Mason, and Serena Zabin, Carleton College

For my undergraduate thesis in history, I chose to incorporate various digital techniques to enhance my research. Here’s how you can leverage big data too.

 

Digital Humanities Grant Projects

Dr. Alexis Easley, Dr. Salvatore Pane, Dr. Tommy Marrinan, Dr. Gretchen Burau, Dr. Laura Zebuhr, Theresa Malloy, Ann Zawitowski, Brett Coup and Eric Tornoe, all of University of St. Thomas

A collaboration between The College of Arts and Sciences and STELAR (St. Thomas E-Learning and Research), providing funds and technical resources for digital humanities projects.

 

Accessible Archive Creation with the MN State Academy for the Blind

Ethan Cassell-Mace, Susannah Ottaway, Carleton College. Jennifer Pelletier, MN State Academy for the Blind

Carleton’s “Historians for Hire” course is working with the MN State Academy for the Blind Archives, making inventories & digital repositories that are accessible to people with visual impairment.

 

Dakota and the Giant Pile of Paper

Jeff Ondich, Cati Fortin, Cherlon Ussery, Mike Flynn, and a parade of students, all Carleton

Trying to help preserve and revitalize a severely endangered language? How might you create useful tools from a heap of hand-written notes?

 

 

Check out the presentations from last year for more inspiration!