Digital Humanities at CWRU

Digital Storytelling

Bryan Alexander

People have been creating digital stories since before the web began but only recently have so many powerful media for sharing these stories become available to the general population. Today’s digital storytelling is not just for tech-savvy individuals; anyone with a desire to express their creativity can learn to use modern technology to share their stories.

Brought through a partnership between CWRU ITS, the Baker-Nord Center, and the College of Arts and Sciences, CWRU is proud to welcome Bryan Alexander, senior fellow at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) and author of the recently released The New Digital Storytelling: Creating Narratives with New Media (Praeger, 2011).

Dr. Alexander researches, writes, and speaks about emerging trends in the integration of inquiry, pedagogy, and technology and their potential application to liberal arts contexts. During his presentation he will discuss the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling, weaving images, text, audio, video, and music together. He will draw upon the latest technologies, insights from the latest scholarship, and his own extensive experience to describe the narrative creation process with person video, blogs, podcasts, digital imagery, multimedia games, social media, and augmented reality – all platforms that offer new pathways for creativity, interactivity, and self-expression.

More information about Brian Alexander. (click)

Bryan has posted his slides from the Event! (click)

Call for Participation: TEI Institutes

These seminars are part of a series funded by the NEH and conducted by the Brown University Women Writers Project. They are aimed at people who are already involved in a text encoding project or are in the process of planning one, and are intended to provide a more in-depth look at specific challenges in using TEI data effectively. Each event will include a mix of presentations, discussion, case studies using participants' projects, hands-on practice, and individual consultation. The seminars will be strongly project-based: participants will present their projects to the group, discuss specific challenges and solutions, develop encoding specifications and documentation, and create sample materials (such as syllabi, docmentation, etc., as appropriate to the event). We encourage project teams and collaborative groups to apply, although individuals are also welcome. A basic knowledge of the TEI Guidelines and some prior experience with text encoding will be assumed.

For more detailed information and to apply, please visit the website. (click)

Back from the Past

One of the more interesting and entertaining things about working with digital technologies across physical and cloud-based systems is that at some point, while poking around in some code that generates a long disused link in the far corner of a derelict page, one inevitably stumbles upon some dusty artifact(s). From the ancient days of the organization's technological past (you know, from one thousand to occasionally even several thousand years days ago) some forgotten footage rises again...

Tibetan Research and Digital Library Applications

Melvyn Goldstein and David Germano

31 October 2008

New Directions in Digital History

Dan Cohen

21 November 2008

Expanding the Scholarly Imagination: Experiments in the Digital Humanities

Tara McPherson

6 November 2009

Digital Humanities Connections (DHCon)

Mark Tebeau, Bill Deal, Tom Scheinfeldt, and Sharon Leon

6 May 2011

Notable Quotable

"Within the decade it will no longer make sense to compile [a list of digital humanities sessions]; it'll be easier to list the sessions that don't in some way relate in to the influence and impact of digital materials and tools upon language, literary, textual, and media studies."

Mark Sample, assistant professor of literature and new media at George Mason University