Come help us celebrate ten years of this popular event. Talks by invited guest speakers will be followed by small-group discussion before lunch. Afternoon breakout sessions will showcase innovative uses of teaching technologies at the UI.

Please direct questions about 4CAST to the Center for Teaching at teaching@uiowa.edu or 319-335-6048.

Date & Location
Thursday, January 12
9:00 am – 2:30 pm
2520 University Capitol Centre (Conference Center)

Timelines are important components of humanities education and research. Whether charting the transmission of knowledge or the march of history, timelines allow us to visualize vast periods of time into easy-to-read infographics. With this workshop, we will create our own timeline visualizations using Timemapper, a free and accessible timeline software. The skills you learn here will allow you to assign your students new explorations into the humanities and social sciences.

Free but registration requested. No technical expertise required.

Location: Main Library 1015 A

Time: 3-4:45

Date: Thursday, 12/8

Have you ever wanted to incorporate archival research into your classroom? With Omeka’s free archiving platform, you can assign students to upload content and create their own archive. This easy-to-use platform offers exciting possibilities for your lesson plans, allowing students to explore original material using the Dublin Core metadata standards used by libraries and museums for digital content. In this two-hour workshop, we will discuss what Dublin Core is and how to access and use Omeka. Each participant will bring three digital items (music, video, PDFs, texts) to begin creating an original archive, and we will discuss the various metadata categories as well as the plug-ins offered by Omeka.

Free but registration requested (not required). No technical expertise required.
Location: Obermann Center Library
Time: 3-4:45
Date: 12/1
Materials: please bring a laptop computer and create a free account at Omeka

If you have ever wished you could have your students build a multi-media project for your class but weren’t sure how to do it, this workshop is for you! We will discuss the basics of Scalar, a free software platform for innovative digital publishing. With Scalar, you can add photos, text, music, videos, and other media to an essay, creating a hyperlinked rhizomatic publication that fully immerses the reader in a topic through a multitude of media. Even more exciting, Scalar allows you to visualize your materials, and we will consider the ways that adding quantitative data to your project’s benefits or detracts from your work. Because Scalar is so widely adopted by online repositories such as Hathi Trust, you can access the materials in the workshop or bring your own. We will also discuss the pedagogical possibilities for Scalar and look at some sample student projects.

Free but registration suggested: register here.
No technical expertise required.
Location: Library 1015 A
Time: 3-4:45
Date: 11/10

Social Network Analysis Using Cytoscape

Please join us on October 27th, from 3-5 pm, for our third workshop in the “Tinkering Humanist” series. Social network analysis is one of the growing areas in Digital Humanities research. Scholars and teachers are increasingly looking for easy-to-use software to visualize connections and relationships. In this workshop, you will learn the basic theory behind social network analysis including how to generate and insert data. We will create visualizations of some data provided by the instructor or you can bring your own! We will conclude by considering the pedagogical possibilities of social network analysis for the humanities classroom.

Please register here (although it is not required to attend): HERE

Location: Obermann Center

Materials: laptop computer

In our second workshop, we cover Versions and Versioning with Juxta.

Scholarly editions have witnessed a radical transformation in the digital age. Whereas traditional “versioning”–the comparison of multiple versions of a text–relied on the limitations of the print format, digital editions allow more fluid and nimble presentation of
the transformation of a text over time. We will discuss the benefits and drawbacks of such digital versioning considering a project of the instructor as a case study. In the workshop, we will create a “version” of Virginia Woolf’s short story “The Mark on the Wall” from primary documents provided in advance. You will learn the basics of versioning using the Juxta Commons platform, and we will discuss the pedagogical uses of such software for student projects.
Thursday, Oct. 13th, 3-5, in Main Library 1015 A. No technical expertise required.

Please register here (although it is not required to attend): https://goo.gl/forms/PW1a4Y9R9hgnlnuk2

Please join us for Social Network Analysis Using Cytoscape on October 27th @ 300 in the UI Main Library-1015A.

This is the first workshop in a series of Digital Humanities Workshops presented by Digital Bridges for Humanistic Inquiry.

Please join us for Versions and Versioning with Juxta on October 13th @ 300 in the UI Main Library-1015A.

This two-month fellowship is open to scholars who are comfortable creating tools and visualizations, as well as those interested in working collaboratively with the APS technology team.

Scholars, including graduate students, at any stage of their career may apply. Special consideration will be given to proposals that present APS Library holdings in new and engaging ways. Examples include (but are not limited to) projects that incorporate timelines, text analytics, network graphs, and maps.

Stipend: $6,000 for two months will be awarded to the successful applicant after their arrival at the Library

Application deadline: Friday, January 15

For more information, click here.

Jan. 14, 9:00-2:30

Bridging Art and Science: STEAM Education in a Digital World

Kickoff keynote by John Unsworth (Vice-Provost for Technology and Library Services, CIO, and Professor of English, Brandeis University) about the impact of innovative technologies on student learning. Unsworth will discuss how the art and science of 3-D fabrication enable users to acquire new perspectives that change how they learn and visualize the world. A collaboration with Iowa Digital Bridges for Humanistic Inquiry: A Grinnell College/UI Partnership. 

Register here.