Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom: A Practical Introduction for Teachers, Lecturers, and Students - Hardcover

by Claire Battershill (Author), Shawna Ross (Author)

Rooted in the day-to-day experience of teaching and written for those without specialist technical knowledge, this is a new edition of the go-to guide to using digital tools and resources in the humanities classroom. In response to the rapidly changing nature of the field, this new edition has been updated throughout and now features:

- A brand-new Preface accounting for new developments in the broader field of DH pedagogy
- New chapters on 'Collaborating' and on 'Teaching in a Digital Classroom'
- New sections on collaborating with other teachers; teaching students with learning differences; explaining the benefits of digital pedagogy to your students; and advising graduate students about the technologies they need to master
- New 'advanced activities' and 'advanced assignment' sections (including bots, vlogging, crowd-sourcing, digital storytelling, web scraping, critical making, automatic text generation, and digital media art)
- Expanded chapter bibliographies and over two dozen tables offering practical advice on choosing software programs

Accompanied by a streamlined companion website, which has been entirely redesigned to answer commonly asked questions quickly and clearly, this is essential reading for anyone looking to incorporate digital tools and resources into their daily teaching.

Author Biography

Claire Battershill is an Assistant Professor, cross-appointed in the Faculty of Information and the Department of English, at the University of Toronto, Canada.