All events are from 12:15 to 1:30 in the CTLR Lounge. You can RSVP for lunch at the bottom of each event’s description.
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
The DLA at Three Years: Looking Back and Moving Forward
As we approach the three-year anniversary of the Digital Liberal Arts Initiative (and the conclusion of our Mellon grant), we want to discuss what we have learned, and where we will be going from here. We will be joined by Bethany Nowviskie, Director of the Digital Library Federation (DLF), and Research Associate Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of English at the University of Virginia; Bethany will participate in our conversation, both to help us see Middlebury’s DLA through fresh eyes, and guide our thinking about our next steps forward. This roundtable is a perfect opportunity for faculty and staff who have participated in the DLA, as well as those viewing us from afar, to join in a reflexive conversation.
Please note that the location for this event has changed. It will be held in the Abernethy Room in Axinn
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Tuesday, April 11, 2017
The Oratory Light: How Attention to Speaking Can Help Us Teach
Yes, it’s a college-wide learning goal, an FYS learning goal, and we know it’s a critically important skill, but honestly who can afford the precious class-time it takes to teach oral expression? Colleagues Shawna Shapiro (Writing and Linguistics Programs) and Sarah Stroup (Political Science) will join Oratory Now Director Dana Yeaton (Theater) in a demonstration and discussion of the many ways, large and small, we can use speaking to deepen, broaden, and in some cases even expedite, what we already do.
Background Materials
Student Group Revives Speech Contest after 50-Year Hiatus [video}, Parker Merrill Speech Competition, Spring 2016
Orational Thought, Middlebury Magazine, Summer 2016
Envisioning a Rhetoric That Binds Us, a community-initiated conversation report, February 2017
Tuesday April 4 (rescheduled)
Fake News, Alternative Facts, and the Toxic Web: Strategies for Understanding and Coping with a Changing Media Universe
We live now in a world where the traditional media has been supplanted by a much more complicated set of media outlets and platforms. How do we understand this new reality? What sorts of strategies might we use to keep ourselves informed? What sorts of media literacies must we cultivate in ourselves and in our students ?
DIGITAL LITERACIES
http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/hybridped/truthy-lies-surreal-truths/Can Higher Education Save the Web?
http://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/1/can-higher-education-save-the-webStudy: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda
http://www.cjr.org/analysis/breitbart-media-trump-harvard-study.php
How to Escape Your Political Bubble for a Clearer Viewhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/arts/the-battle-over-your-political-bubble.htm
America’s fake news problem predates Facebookhttp://www.vox.com/culture/2016/11/21/13682574/fake-news-facebook-fox-news-conservative-radio
https://theoutline.com/post/1192/google-s-featured-snippets-are-worse-than-fake-news
Ingraham, Christopher. “Why Conservatives Might Be More Likely to Fall for Fake News.” The Washington Post. January 19, 2017. Accessed March 7, 2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/07/why-conservatives-might-be-more-likely-to-fall-for-fake-news/.
Loyola Marymount University Libraries. Keepin’ It Real: Tips & Strategies for Evaluating Fake News. 2017. Accessed March 7, 2017. http://libguides.lmu.edu/fakenews/LeftCenterRight
Schulten, Katherine and Amanda Christy Brown. “Evaluating Sources in a ‘Post-Truth’ World: Ideas for Teaching and Learning About Fake News.” The New York Times. January 19, 2017. Accessed March 7, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/learning/lesson-plans/evaluating-sources-in-a-post-truth-world-ideas-for-teaching-and-learning-about-fake-news.html
Tuesday February 14
Engaging Students as Researchers: Opportunities and Challenges
Working with students in research contexts presents great opportunities for learning as well as new challenges in teaching. How do we prepare students for the unknown? How can they contribute effectively to faculty projects? How do we prepare them to be effective researchers themselves? Join Will Amidon (Geology), Svea Closser (Anthropology), and Amy Morsman (History) in a discussion of the challenges they experience bringing students into their research, helping students develop their own research projects, and integrating research into a course. Lunch will be available at 12:15pm; the discussion will begin at 12:30.