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Lauren Work@squaredsong
Digital Pedagogy Institute8/20/2015
Aiding Pedagogy: An examination (and call for feedback), of a
digital project from a Digital Collections Librarian
• VCU Special Collections & Archives
• Collaborations with Richmond organizations
Fulton Neighborhood, ca. 1925, V.45.15.575, The Valentine, W. Palmer Gray Collection. Used with permission.
“Hi! I’m Lauren, your Digital CollectionsLibrarian.”
VCU students, faculty
Teaching & Learning
“Oh, hey! Cool.”
National Library of Ireland Flickr Commons
Digital Pedagogy novice
“We are not born digital pedagogues, nor do we have to be formally schooled in the ways of digital pedagogy.There’s lots to read on the subject, but we can’t just read our way into it; there is no essential canon. ”
- Jesse StommelDecoding Digital Pedagogy, pt. 2: (Un)Mapping the Terrain
Collaboration
Playfulness/tinkering
Focus on process
Building (very broadly defined)
Via Katherine D. Harris
“The best digital tools inspire us, often to use them in ways the designer couldn’t anticipate. The worst digital tools attempt to dictate our pedagogies, determining what we can do with them and for whom. The digital pedagogue teaches her tools, doesn’t let them teach her.”
- Jesse StommelDecoding Digital Pedagogy, pt. 2: (Un)Mapping the Terrain
“Rather, we need to handle our technologies roughly —to think critically about our tools, how we use them, and who has access to them.”
- Jesse StommelDecoding Digital Pedagogy, pt. 2: (Un)Mapping the Terrain
“Digital pedagogy calls for screwing around more than it does systematic study, and in fact screwing around is the more difficult scholarly work.”
-Jesse StommelDecoding Digital Pedagogy, pt. 2: (Un)Mapping the Terrain
Development
Baist Atlas Publication & Company History
Design
Design…better
Expand initial design input beyond the team building and working with the site.
Goal 1:
Richmond history in context
Actively encourage contribution of student views & voices
Goal 2:
Allow for use and reuse of data and images
Goal 3:
Allow for users to explore further points of interest from the atlas
Think carefully about how you navigate access and discovery in design
labs.library.vcu.edu/baist-atlas/
Additional Lessons learned
Library of Congress Flickr Commons
• Feedback
• Communication tools
• Extensibility/preservation
• Project charter
“Hi! I’m Lauren, your Digital CollectionsLibrarian…from the FUTURE.”
VCU students, faculty
Teaching & Learning
“Whoa.”
Future Work
Future Work
Library & Digital Collections
CollaborationPlayfulness/tinkering
Focus on processBuilding (very broadly defined)
Via Katherine D. Harris
Thank you!
http://labs.library.vcu.edu/baist-atlas/
Lauren WorkDigital Collections Librarian