Brandon Walsh

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 talk?

Anything that keeps to five-minutes and gives enough context to spark interest for participants to go and learn more. The following questions might help you get started:

  • What are you talking about? An overview of the thing, concept, tool, etc
  • Why do you use it?
  • Cost
  • Fragility - how likely is it to disappear?
  • What educational level / institutional context?
  • What background do students need?
  • Resources to learn more and explore it

Upcoming Sessions

  • Coming soon

Past Sessions

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