On-campus workshops

The MDHI will be hosting various on-campus digital media workshops. These workshops are intended to train faculty in state-of-the-art digital techniques and best practices for teaching and scholarly project design. Small group, hands-on, introductory-level workshops will be offered multiple times a year. These trainings are designed for faculty with interest, but little experience, in digital approaches. Workshops will also provide a template for curricular projects and scholarship. Events and details will be added as they are scheduled.
 

Fall 2017 On-Campus Workshops:

All Fall  2017 workshops are co-sponsored by the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL). For additional information, visit https://citl.lehigh.edu/events.

CITL/MDHI: Beginning Omeka Workshop
Date & Time: Friday, November 10, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Location: Linderman 302
Presenters: Rob Weidman, Digital Scholarship Specialist, and Cory Fisher-Hoffman, Mellon Digital Humanities Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Students
Omeka is a free, easy to use, open source web-publishing platform for the display of scholarly, library, and archive collections.  This 2-hour workshop will provide participants with examples of projects and how to create and add content to an Omeka site.
 
CITL/MDHI: Beginning Scalar Workshop
Date & Time: Friday, October 20, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Location: Linderman 302
Presenters: Jason Slipp, Instructional Technology
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate Students
This entry-level workshop provides an overview of the Scalar platform available at Lehigh.  Scalar is an authoring and publishing platform designed to make it easy for authors to create long-form, born-digital scholarship online.  Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways.  This workshop is for beginners with little or no experience working with Scalar.  We will create a project of your liking by going step-by-step through the process of assembling artifacts, developing your Scalar framework, and publishing your work to the web.  We will also take some time during the workshop to go over best practices and example projects that have been developed by Lehigh faculty, staff, and students.  
 
CITL/MDHI: Beginning WordPress Workshop
Date & Time: Friday, October 6, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Location: Linderman 302
Presenters: Rob Weidman, Digital Library Technical Coordinator
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate Students
This entry-level workshop provides an overview of the popular Wordpress platform available at Lehigh for creating websites, blogs, or other digital projects. This workshop is for beginners with little or no experience working with Wordpress.  We will create a project of your liking by going step-by-step through the process of choosing a theme, creating pages, adding content, and publishing your site to the web.  Please come prepared with an idea of a site, blog, or project you would like to develop as well as a few artifacts (images, media files, etc) that you would like to incorporate into your project.
 
CITL/MDHI: Digital Publishing and Archiving
Date & Time: Friday, September 8, 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
Location: Linderman 200
Presenters: Matthew K. Gold, Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities at The Graduate Center at CUNY, Janneken Smucker, Assistant Professor of History at West Chester University & Will Fenton, doctoral candidate at Fordham University
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate Students
A presentation and discussion of WordPress, Omeka, and Scalar platforms
We will be joined by Matt Gold, Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities at The Graduate Center at CUNY, who will discuss his use of WordPress; Janneken Smucker, Assistant Professor of History at West Chester University, will present her work on the Omeka site Goin' North; and Will Fenton, doctoral candidate at Fordham University, will talk about his work in Scalar for the Digital Paxton: A Digital Archive and Critical Edition of the Paxton Pamphlet War project. Presentations will be followed by discussion and small group consultations over lunch.
 
CITL/MDHI: Digital Humanities Discussion
Date & Time: Thursday, September 7, 4:00 pm
Location: Linderman 200
Presenters: Matthew K. Gold & Ed Whitley
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Students
Join us for a discussion about the current state and future of digital humanities.  We will be joined by Matthew Gold, Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities at The Graduate Center at City University of New York.
Optional pre-discussion reading:
Stephen Ramsay and Geoffrey Rockwell, "Developing Things: Notes toward an Epistemology of Building in the Digital Humanities" http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/11
Kim Gallon, "Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities" https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled/section/fa10e2e1-0c3d-4519-a958-d823aac989eb#ch04
Johanna Drucker, "Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display" http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/1/000091/000091.html

Spring 2017 On-Campus Workshops:

All Spring 2017 workshops are co-sponsored by the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL). For additional information, visit https://citl.lehigh.edu/events.

From Poetry to Podcast: Producing Sound-Rich Audio (Podcasting II)
Friday, March 24, 10:00-2:00pm (lunch provided)
Location: Digital Media Studio, EWFM 421
Led by Cory Fischer-Hoffman and Jarret Brown along with Special Guest Rend Smith
Registration is required; please register here. 
This workshop is for those with some experience using audio editing software to incorporate sound, music, and narration to spoken word poetry to create sound-rich and powerful audio that will communicate with listeners. This workshop is great for those who already work in radio, audio or sound but want to explore creative compositions and learn about additional functions in the audio editing software, Audacity. The workshop is also open to beginners who are quick learners and are enthusiastic about producing sound art, podcasts or audio documentary.

Artist Rend Smith will present on an award winning radio series and digital humanities project the “Prison Poetry Workshop” and his effort to capture, document, disseminate, and contextualize prison writings into a national canon.

Research-based practice: Documentary as a Mode of Social Inquiry
Thursday, March 30, 10:00-12:00pm
Location: Williams 70
Led by Brett Story
Registration is required; please register here.
In this workshop, geographer and filmmaker Brett Story offers insights from her practice as a research-based filmmaker and media maker. Using clips and stories from her most recent film, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, produced while a doctoral student of at the University of Toronto in the Department of Geography, Brett will discuss, share techniques, and field questions about how social science research methods, documentary techniques, and aesthetic tropes can intersect to produce new forms of knowledge production. This will be a participatory workshop, with opportunities for discussion, debate, and hands-on exercises.

Knowing Your Rights: Legal Fundamentals for Documentary Filmmakers 
Friday, April 14, 10:00-4:00pm (lunch provided)
Location: EWFM 379
Led by Karen Shatzkin
Registration is required; please register here.
Both beginning and more experienced documentary filmmakers have misconceptions about the impact of copyright and other laws on their projects. Knowing Your Rights: Legal Fundamentals for Documentary Filmmakers is designed to enable non-lawyers to understand how various relevant areas of law—including copyright, trademark, defamation, and privacy/publicity rights—affect their projects. Karen Shatzkin has extensive experience making these complex issues comprehensible to her creative clients, including a wide array of documentary filmmakers.

This day-long seminar will enable participants to be more self-sufficient in understanding their rights and the limitations on those rights. They will learn about circumstances that really require a lawyer's involvement (and those that don't). Participants also will gain knowledge that will empower them to work with lawyers, rather than be passive recipients of legal advice. Ms. Shatzkin will discuss copyright doctrines, such as "de minimus" and fair use; the portrayal of trademarks; rules concerning film titles; privacy/publicity rights; and doctrines such as trespass and misrepresentation that often trip up filmmakers. Using important court decisions and examples from her clients' films, she will discuss how the laws apply to documentary projects and provide an understanding of what practical considerations may intervene.
Registration is required; a link for registration will be posted here shortly.

Karen Shatzkin is a member of the New York law firm of Shatzkin & Mayer, P.C., Karen Shatzkin has worked on legal issues affecting documentary films for more than 30 years, primarily on behalf of independent filmmakers and independent production companies. She has vetted films pre-release; negotiated contracts with creative personnel, distributors, studios, and networks; and responded to claims against filmmakers. Her clients run the gamut from well-established, award-winning documentarians to first-time filmmakers.
Ms. Shatzkin, a graduate of Columbia Law School, has an active litigation practice in addition to her transactional work for filmmakers and other creative clients. An adjunct faculty member of Columbia Law School, she teaches a trial practice seminar.

Past Events (2016-2017):

The Ethics of Representation

Friday, March 3, 1:00-4:00pm
Location: EWFM 520
Led by Nandini Sikand
Registration is required; please register here.
Nandini Sikand will screen her finished short  One, if by Land (2015, 14 minutes), an experimental short film that explores the politics of undocumented immigration to the global North via land, sea and air. Inspired by three stories of real voyages made from Mexico, China and Mozambique, this film looks at the impossibility of arrival, a visual commemoration of the unknown immigrant. One, if by Land is not a film that attempts to have answers to the noisy debate around immigration policies, but through grim but evocative imagery of these journeys, it raises questions as to why this impossibility should exist in the first place. Using this film as an example she will talk about the creative process, ethical representations of vulnerable subjects from conception to research with an emphasis on ethical story-telling. Sikand will also screen a 10-minute trailer of a work in progress, Inside Outside, a feature length documentary on women and mass incarceration in the Lehigh Valley.

Nandini Sikand is an anthropologist, filmmaker and dancer. Her films have screened and won awards at over a 100 domestic and international film festivals and aired on PBS. She has been awarded grants from The Jerome Foundation, the Center for Asian American Media and is two-time awardee of New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) grant. Sikand is an Assistant Professor of an interdisciplinary film and media studies program at Lafayette College, PA.

Introduction to Digital Mapping

Friday, February 24, 10 am - 2:30 p.m. (lunch provided)
Location: Linderman 302&
Led by Alison Kanosky
Registration is requiredplease reigster here.
This entry-level workshop provides an overview of the building blocks of digital maps, and an introduction to the software available at Lehigh for creating maps including ArcGIS.com and Google Maps. This workshop is for beginners with little or no experience creating digital maps. We will create a digital map by going step-by-step through the process of creating spatial data, importing it to a map, and learning how to share it on the web.

Information Session for MDHI Undergraduate Research Grants

Wednesday, February 1, 4:10-5:10 p.m.
Williams Hall 070
Interested in using digital tools for community engaged research? Apply for funding of up to $5,000 for research projects through the Mellon Digital Humanities Initiative.
Learn more at our information session:

  • Question and Answer
  • Brainstorming on Project Ideas
  • Examples of previous undergraduate research projects

From Interview and Archive to Podcast: An Introduction (Podcasting I)
Friday, February 3, 10:00-4:00pm (lunch provided)
Location: Digital Media Studio, EWFM 421
Led by Cory Fischer-Hoffman and Jarret Brown
This workshop is for beginners and anyone who is interested in learning the nuts and bolts of podcasting. We will cover planning podcast topics and formats, writing for radio, how to get good audio and an introduction into audio editing on the free open-source software Audacity (compatible with Mac and PC).  Participants will leave the workshop with a 15-30-second promo for their Podcast and resources on equipment, hosting sites, audio archives, and further tutorials.  Please bring a memory stick or external hard-drive if you have one.

Introduction to WordPress for Humanists
Friday, November 11, 9 a.m.- 12 p.m., Linderman 302
Led by Alison Kanosky
This workshop will teach you how to use the digital publishing tool WordPress, and will provide ideas for how to use WordPress in research and teaching. This workshop is for beginners who have never built a website or blog before, who rae new to the WordPress platform, or who would like new ideas for how to use digital publishing in their humanities or social sciences classes or research.

LVAIC Teagle Workshop: Integrating Mobile Apps into the Classroom
Saturday, November 12, 8:30 a.m.- 12 p.m. 
This is a LVAIC workshop hosted at Moravian College

Documentary Film Process Workshop

Friday, October 14, 10 a.m.- 1 p.m. (lunch included), Fairchild/Martindale Library 550
Led by Jonathan Gayles
Professor Gayles will give a 90-minute workshop on the process of making a documentary, including concept construction, ethical questions involved, and the selection of interviewees.

One Button/Lightboard
Thursday, October 27, 12- 2 p.m. (lunch included), Fairchild/Martindale 379 (CITL Classroom)
Led by Steve Sakasitz, Bobby Siegried and Jarrett Brown
This workshop will start in the CITL classroom and then we will walk up to the 5th floor to see the studio space and demo features of the studio. Our studio includes the ability for faculty, staff and students to create videos, incorporate content and even record something with green screen technology. The lightboard allows for recording of computation, writing, etc.

 

Pocket Production: Video Production Using Your Mobile Device
Friday, October 28, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. (lunch included), Digital Media Studio (Fairchild/Martindale Library 421)
Led by Desi Burnette & Cory Fischer-Hoffman
Video production on our mobile devices allows people to share more media quicker than ever before. Learn to make professional quality films and videos using the tools you carry with you everyday in this hands-on workshop. Pocket Production will cover:

  • Basic shot types and framing for capturing video on your mobile device
  • Conducting an interview on your mobile device
  • Editing decisions that help you tell your story
  • Using smartphone apps for editing on your mobile device
  • Sharing your videos on social media

Participants will create a short video during this workshop. For this workshop, you will need a smartphone or tablet equipped with a camera and editing application. We will be teaching on Kine Master for Android phones and iMovie for iPhones and iPads. This workshop is ideal for storytellers, filmmakers, researchers, journalists, and community organizers.

 

Getting Started with WordPress

Thursday, October 6, 1-4 p.m., Linderman Library 302
Led by CampusPress
This workshop taught participants how to get started using Lehigh WordPress instance for developing a blog or website for courses or research.

"Animation 101" Workshop with Filmmaker Nomi Talisman
(co-sponsored by Muhlenberg College and Lafayette College)
Tuesday, October 4, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Muhlenberg College, Walson 115
Participants will work in Photoshop and Adobe Premiere to learn the basics of animation techniques from this award-winning artist/filmmaker.

Digital Pedagogy Workshop
Tuesday, September 20, 4-6 p.m., Fairchild/Martindale Library 379 (CITL Classroom)
Led by Cory Fischer-Hoffman and Alison Kanosky
This workshop was structured around the experiential learning cycle: participants generated a list of best practices in teaching with digital tools and troubleshot challenges that arise when incorporating digital technilogy in the classroom. Participants left with examples of how instructors have incorporated digital teaching into their courses and ideas of how to create realistic goals for successful teaching with digital tools.
 

Past Events (2015-2016):

 

  • Humanities Network Analysis Workshop led by Scott Weingart
    Exploring Medium-Sized Networks

    Monday, April 11, 1:30-3:30 in Linderman Library, Room 302
    Networks are a predominating metaphor in contemporary scholarship, and network analysis is the formalized method for exploring this metaphor. The technique is used widely in the digital humanities, helping researchers infer trade routes in the ancient Roman world, find communities among 17th century printers, or trace stylistic influences between early Irish novels. This workshop teaches basic analytic theories and practical steps for performing humanities network analysis. Participants will learn how to turn a medium-sized network (e.g., 200 books sharing similar words; 50 cities and roads between them; or 1,000 people connected via correspondence) into a network to be analyzed and visualized in Gephi, and what the results of those analyses mean.

    Scott Weingart is the Digital Humanities specialist at Carnegie Mellon.  https://scottbot.github.io/  While Scott will work from what Alison Kanosky and Julia Maserjian covered in the first visualizing data workshop, it is not required that you attended that first session to join this second workshop.
     

  • "Designing Arguments: The Digital Humanities Reimagination of Knowledge," lecture by Scott Weingart
    Tuesday, April 12, 4:10 p.m., STEPS 101

    Digital humanities techniques are diversifying rhetorical strategies employed by the humanities, particularly in the form of data visualizations. Without a critical awareness of how visualizations influence arguments, these increasingly popular techniques risk undermining the arguments they are intended to support. This talk will present historical diagrams of knowledge as a case study for the philosophical power of visualizations, followed by a discussion of potential minefields of visual rhetoric in the digital humanities.

     

  • Documentary Film Screenings: Four Studies of Community Development in Bethlehem, February 24, 5 p.m.
    Screening of the four short documentary films made in our January documentary film workshop for Lehigh faculty. Films focus on four local topics: the Hoover-Mason Trestle, a proposed pedestiran bridge across the Lehigh River, architectural development on the South Side, and City Councilwoman Olga Negron. Event co-sponsored by the SouthSide Initiative.

  • "Oral History and Digital Humanities: New Models for Oral History and Pedagogy" Lecture by Doug Boyd, February 11, 4:10 p.m.
    Doug Boyd, Ph.D., Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries discussed new technologies he developed to enhance access to online oral history, and the application of these technologies to generate innovative models for using oral history in the classroom.
  • Digital Humanities 101  February 17, 4:10 p.m., led by Ed Whitley and Alison Kanosky
    What is Digital Humanities? This session introduced the framework of Digital Humanities, and provided faculty and staff with a variety of examples of digital approaches to humanities research and teaching. This session was designed for people who are new to Digital Humanities, or have questions about the field.
  • Visualizing Data, Part 1  February 23, 4:10 p.m., led by Julia Maserjian and Alison Kanosky
    The first part of this 2-part workshop introduced faculty and staff to some easy-to-use programs that use visuals to represent research data. Workshop participants learned about tools for building timelines, infographics, social network visualizations, and maps.

     

  • Documentary Film Workshop, January 11-14, led by John Pettegrew and Julia Maserjian, with instruction from Jon Kost
  • Faculty and Staff Informational meetings, Tuesday, September 1st at 4:00 pm and Wednesday, September 9th at 12 pm.
  • Undergraduate Research Grant Information Session , Monday September 14, 4:10 p.m.
  • Introduction to Digital Mapping, Part 1, Wednesday, September 23, 12-1 p.m. with Scott Rutzmoser and Alison Kanosky
    This workshop provided an overview of the building blocks of digital maps, and an introduction to the software available at Lehigh for creating maps. This entry-level workshop covered typical uses for maps and different ways to engage users with your maps. Additionally, we discussed sources for finding spatial data or creating your own.

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  • Introduction to Digital Mapping, Part 2, Friday, October 2, 2-4 p.m. with Scott Rutzmoser and Alison Kanosky
    This workshop went into depth with the digital mapping resources available through ArcGIS.com. We went step-by-step through the process of creating spatial data, importing it to a map through ArcGIS.com, and sharing it on the web

  • Workshop for undergraduates: How to write a successful MDHI grant proposal, Monday, 11/23, 4 p.m.
  • Workshops on Community Engagement with Patti Clayton, October 26 & 27

    Monday, October 26th

    8:30-10:30 am: General Session I
    Principles of Community-Engaged Teaching and Learning

    Learn about the core principles and key steps to quality community-engaged teaching and learning. This session is great for anyone new to community engagement or looking to enhance existing work, whether community members, faculty, staff, or students.

    1:15 pm - 3:15 pm: General Session II
    Integrated Design and Critical Reflection for Learning
    This session will dive more deeply into the use of critical reflection to enhance student learning. Participants will leave with example critical reflection activities and ideas for integrating community engagement into courses and projects.
    3:30-5:30pm: General Session III
    Building Strong, Reciprocal Partnerships
    This session will be a discussion about building strong, reciprocal partnerships and working through partnership challenges and evaluating impact and values-engaged goals.

    Tuesday, October 27th
    9:00am - 12:00 pm: Special Topics: Reimagining Assessment
    The word "assessment" often brings to mind words like mandatory, oppressive, and quantitative.  However, assessment is also a necessary part of our ability to gauge the quality, impact, and integrity of our work.  Further, how do we know when our work is living our values?   How do you tell the story of community-engaged work to ensure quality, reciprocity, and meaningful impact?  This session will creatively explore values-based assessment, examine the gaps in assessment practices in our own work and expectations placed from the outside, and identify way in which we can create paradigm-shifting, empowering alternatives.
     

2:00pm - 4:00pm: Special Topics: Carnegie Community Engagement Classification
This special working group session is intended to engage stakeholders from across the university in a discussion about the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification and the steps needed to attain this accreditation for Lehigh.

Patti H. Clayton is an independent consultant (PHC Ventures) with over fifteen years of experience as a practitioner-scholar and educational developer in community-campus engagement and experiential education. She serves as a Senior Scholar with the Center for Service and Learning at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), a Visiting Fellow with the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE), and a Senior Scholarat the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). She has consulted with over 125 colleges and universities in the US, Canada, and Ireland, including facilitating institution-wide visioning and planning processes for community-campus engagement, supporting campuses in applying for and leveraging the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification, guiding interdisciplinary and inter-institutional scholarly collaborations, facilitating professional development across all partners in community-campus engagement, and
co-producing a wide range of campus-internal and field-wide resources.