Presentation for the 2014 St. Edward's University Teaching Symposium

1. Designing Course-Based, Student-
Faculty Collaborative Research
Projects Using Digital Tools!

2. Slides, Resources, Contacts!
• http://sites.stedwards.edu/
instructionaltechnology/ "
• Rebecca Frost Davis, Director, Instructional and
Emerging Technology,
rebeccad@stedwards.edu "
• Pongracz Sennyey, Director, Munday Library,
pongracz@stedwards.edu"

5. Wheaton College Digital History
Project!
• Kathryn Tomasek,
Associate Professor
of History"
• History methods
course"
• Transcribing &
encoding archives"
• Partners: archivist,
technologist, librarian"

6. Day Book"
Daily accounting of
transactions that
reflect the many
business activities of
Laban Morey
Wheaton between
1828 and 1859"
"
NEH DH Start-up
grant: Encoding
Financial Records
for Historical
Research "

7. Collaborative Research
Assignment!
• Stage 1: Background Reading in Secondary
Sources"
• Stage 2: Transcription and Coding of Daybook
Page Spreads"
• Stage 3: Writing and Editing Episodes for the
History Engine"
• Stage 4: Writing a Paper Based on Primary
Sources"

8. Google Doc for Collecting Data!

9. Publications!
• Tomasek, Kathryn, Scott Hamlin, Zephorene Stickney, and Kathleen
Ebert-Sawasky. “Encoding Text, Revealing Meaning: Implications of
the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for Small Liberal Arts Colleges.”
International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. 1, no. 3
(2006): 157–164."
• “Encoding Financial Records for Historical Research,” Level I Digital
Humanities Start-Up Grant, NEH, $25,000"
• Tomasek, Kathryn. “Encoding Financial Records.” Journal of Digital
Humanities 2 (Spring 2013).
http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-2/encoding-financial-records-
by-kathryn-tomasek/. "
• Tomasek, Kathryn, and Syd Bauman. “Encoding Financial Records
for Historical Research.” Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, no.
Issue 6 (September 26, 2013). doi:10.4000/jtei.895.
http://jtei.revues.org/895 "

10. Enduring Women!

11. Process Checklist for Integrating Digital
Humanities Projects into Courses!
1. Connecting Course and Project"
2. Scaffolding and Chunking"
3. Collaborative Teaching"
4. Logistics"
"
http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/
2012/09/13/process-checklist-for-integrating-
digital-humanities-projects-into-courses/ "

12. Thank you!
St. Edward’s University"
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St. Edward’s University"
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St. Edward’s University"
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St. Edward’s University"
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St. Edward’s University"