Snack-Sized Digital Pedagogy

It’s important to maintain a balanced teaching diet! This free and open-to-the-public zoom series on digital pedagogy features paired lightning talks introducing teaching topics, interesting approaches to the classroom, pedagogical concepts, and more. All in a bite-sized form that should still give you plenty to chew on. In the spirit of the #DHMakes Methodz talks, each session will be built around paired 5 minute presentations followed by facilitated discussion for the remainder of the time.

Interested in showing off a pedagogical bite? Please fill out this form to indicate your interest in participating in the future! The presentations can cover a wide variety of topics: a tool that is new to you, a teaching tip, pedagogical concept, assignment, your syllabus for a DH course, etc. We’re interested in showcasing anything you have found that moves you or your students in the classroom, that has worked well or failed utterly. And we are very interested in perspectives from folks in all different kinds of positions and institutional contexts - higher ed, K-12, administrators, cultural heritage workers, and more. After the session, each speaker will submit a short one-page (max) version of their five-minute presentation that we’ll collect into a crowdsourced, citable web publication of bite-sized DH pedagogical goodness.

Rachel Retica, Seanna Viechweg, and Brandon Walsh

What makes a good bite? / Template for Talk Write-Ups

We are excited to hear about anything that gives enough context to spark interest and conversation for participants while keeping to five minutes. After each talk we ask you to put together a one-page, standalone PDF of your presentation that can be cited by others in the future. The format might also help you plan your talk. Here’s what we ask for, modeled on the pedagogical anthology from the NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in DH on Textual Data and Digital Texts in the Undergraduate Classroom:

• Title
• Author
• Suggested Citation - e.g.
  • Walsh, Brandon. “Snack-Sized Pedagogy and You.” Snack-Sized Digital Pedagogy Series. February 13, 2025. DOI_Provided_By_Knowledge_Commons.
• Audience - institutional level, timeframe, size.
• Cost - what materials are necessary? is it free? freemium? licensed?
• Fragility - how likely is someone to be able to use your work as a model ten years from now? does it rely on a tool that could disappear?
• Description - what is it? why is it useful? The bulk of the one-page document.
• Supplemental materials

Here is a template you can edit if you wish. We ask you to upload this one-page PDF and supplement materials Knowledge Commons to preserve your contribution and get a DOI to use for your citation. Send that citation back to us so that can archive it alongside the other snacks. This will ensure that things will persist if this site changes!

Upcoming Sessions

• Teaching with historical/humanities data. Friday, 2/21 from 1:00-2:00PM EST. Register here.
  • Megan Brett, Manager for Collections Processing and Digital Initiatives at the Thomas Jefferson Library at Monticello
    • Blurb: Working with historical structured data sources. We’ll talk about some ways to approach transcribing historic documents into structured systems (spreadsheets or similar formats), including project planning, workflows, and some low/no tech starting points.
  • Emily McGinn, Digital Humanities Specialist at Johns Hopkins University
    • Blurb: I have data, now what? Forming a research question from humanities data. We’ll discuss how to examine the data you have, form a hypothesis, and structure investigations within the bounds of the dataset.

Past Sessions

• Coming soon, documented with short, citable write-ups!