Upcoming Digital Humanities Events at the University of Miami
Three digital humanities events are coming up in March at the University of Miami.
Data Intersections will be on March 2nd and is a 1-day free conference featuring speakers from data science, statistics, data journalism, and the digital humanities.
For more information visit http://dataintersections.com.miami.edu
Monday, March 5th – Using Scrivener for Dissertation Writing
2-3 p.m., Richter Library Info Lit Lab
Presented by Hadassah St. Hubert (History)
Are you about to work on your dissertation? In this workshop, you will learn how to use Scrivener to organize your dissertation research, drafts, and chapters in one platform.
Monday, March 19th – Wiki writing: whys, whats, and hows of incorporating Wiki assignments into writing-intensive courses
3-4 p.m., Richter Library Info Lit Lab
Presented by Marta Gierczyk (English)
Some of the very reasons that make professors skeptical about the place of Wikipedia in a college classroom are actually good reasons to integrate Wikis into your teaching toolkit. This info session will demonstrate how faculty use Wikis as dynamic and flexible collaboration tools to engage students, develop their writing craft, and facilitate “writing as a process” approach through collaborative research and writing, public knowledge construction, peer editing, and more. We will review a variety of Wiki-style assignments and consider best practices for integrating Wiki projects into a college course (using Wikipedia itself but also other platforms like PBWorks or Wikispaces).