<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://jeremykidwell.info/files/presentations/reveal.js/css/reveal.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://jeremykidwell.info/files/presentations/reveal.js/css/theme/solarized.css"> </head> <body> <div class="reveal"> <div class="slides"> <section> <h1>My Digital Humanities Rabbit Trails in 2016</h1> </section> <section> <section> <h1>Teaching Theological Ethics</h1> <p>Goal: To give students agency in course planning; design term 2 teaching around student-led presentations.</p> </section> <section> <ul> <li>Low-fi beginnings: whiteboarding topics</li> <li>Going digital: Fed 35 topics into a digital survey</li> <li>First roadblock: canvas survey tool stinks</li> <li>Second roadblock: central IT unwilling to deploy lightweight, open-source alternative without "a business case"</li> <li>Solution: rolled my own instance of LimeSurvey on personal webhost (reclaim.com)</li> <li>Example: <a href=http://sccs-survey.org.uk/index.php/162945>http://sccs-survey.org.uk/index.php/162945</a></li> </ul> </section> <section> <ul> <li>Third roadblock: Need to level playing field for students without tablets and smartphones</li> <li>Solution: Thanks to Arts IT! Discovered a big box full of iPads</li> </ul> </section> <section> <h2>Results?</h2> </section> <section> <p>Worked well. iPads had trouble with wifi, but students just shared the 8-10 that worked.</p> <p>Really interesting differences in engagement styles with the tool</p> <p>Have a fantastic store of data I need to parse through to see how topic choices map onto student demographics</p> </section> </section> <section> <section> <h1>Research?</h1> </section> <section> <p>Topic: climate change and low-carbon action in religious communities</p> <p>Digital solution: Generate a map to consolidate practitioner relationships; resource third sector groups; parse demographics</p> </section> <section><h1>Research challenge?</h1></section> <section><p>Data exists, but huge problems with transparency, accuracy, sustainability</p></section> <section> <h2>Technical solution?</h2> </section> <section> <h2>OPEN EVERYTHING! Source! Data! Tools!</h2> <p>Mapping tools: QGIS, CartoDB, D3.js, carto.css</p> <p>Project website: Jekyll via github</p> <p>Sample: <a href="https://mapping.community">http://mapping.community</a></p> </section> </section> <section> <section> <p>The next few rabbit trails:</p> <ul> <li>Decision time: Hacking resources list vs. Hacking a canvas wiki page</li> <li>Moving everything to github/gitlab</li> <li>Writing some "reproducible research" using RMarkdown</li> <li>Social network analysis</li> <li>Getting a discourse server (https://github.com/discourse/discourse)</li> </ul> </section> </section> </div> </div> <script src="https://jeremykidwell.info/files/presentations/reveal.js/js/reveal.js"></script> <script> Reveal.initialize(); </script> </body></html>