Reading for 10/16 Plenary Meeting A Personal Cyberinfrastructure by Gardner Campbell Do I Own My Domain If You Grade It? By Andrew Rikard Templated Self by Amber Case Affinity Group Notes (Yes, they’re coming in! Have you sent me your group’s notes yet?..) Anybody logged into Google through their Davidson ID should be able to …
Continue reading Reading Links and Affinity NotesOur first small group meetings should take place before October 16th. We’re hoping that the small groups will convene and discuss their overall interests, and to chat about the following: What are the bottlenecks for you and/or your students for working with Davidson Domains? Bottlenecks may be technical, procedural, affective or disciplinary. How do you …
Continue reading First affinity group meeting/homeworkA bottleneck is a great conceptual metaphor to describe those pedagogical moments where a significant number of learners get stuck. Identifying bottlenecks is the first step toward designing learning pathways through those bottlenecks. I’m borrowing the idea from the Decoding the Disciplines project at Indiana University. As Joan Middendorf, one of the project leaders, puts …
Continue reading What are the bottlenecks of Davidson Domains?Our first meeting was on Friday, September 11 – most of the meeting was taken up by introductions – both among people and of the structure of the workshop. Mark Sample (digital studies), Kristen Eshelman (ITS), Anelise Hanson Shrout (digital studies) and Katie Wilkes (ITS) introduced themselves – all are on hand in various capacities …
Continue reading First meeting!Who can participate? This group is open to students, faculty and staff. If you are interested, please fill out a brief survey here. What is the format going forward? Two meetings per month during Fall semester 2015. The first one is a kind of plenary meeting of everyone in the group. This might alternate between …
Continue reading Joining the DDLCWhat is Davidson Domains? Last year, we launched Davidson Domains, a pilot program that gives faculty, staff, and students a “domain of one’s own”—an online space for websites, blogs, exhibits, portfolios, and more. Users name their domain (i.e. www.yourdomain.org) and maintain total control over it. Participants can create a domain of their own for their …
Continue reading Davidson Domains Learning Community: An Introduction