HELM : HUGEmanities Education Learning Modules
Summer 2020
Navigating Digital Humanities
HELM is a straightfoward, highly flexible online educational resource that works to support UNH and CCSNH faculty as they navigate creating curriculum for digital humanities work. Provided through a Canvas Course, this resource is designed to ease the transition from print to digital by providing accessible digital resources for faculty use. HELM will address foundational thinking, crafting curriculum, copyright and fair use guidance, as well as provide practical sample assignments, online resources, handouts to download, assessment and evaluation methods. Whether you need come up with a quick digital assignment or want to develop a high impact culminating experience, HELM can help.
The following topics will be covered in HELM modules:
o The Visible and Valuable Digital Humanities
o Creating Course Outcomes that Capitalize on Digital Methods
o Digital Humanities & Professionalism: What Can I Do With This Degree?
o Classroom: Planning for Media Use
o Copyright and Fair Use: The Ethics of Student Media Use
o Understanding and Using Creative Commons Licensing
o Accommodations, Equity and Diversity in Digital Practices
o Group Work: Developing Effective Dynamics Online
o Minilessons: Small Activities to Integrate Digital Humanities into the College Classroom
o Crafting Assignments that Support Digital Work
o Designing Basic Websites in the Classroom
o Rich Media Use in the Humanities Classroom (Multi-Media Video Production)
o Creating an Effective F2F or Video Presentation (software, platforms, slide design and best practices)
o Audio Technology: Podcasting and More
o Approaches and Production for Interviews
o Evaluating Digital Assignments
o Valuable Durham Campus Collaborations for Effective Media Use
o Valuable Online Organizations to Support Classroom Media Use
o Understanding and Accessing the CCSNH Transfer Pathways
