Take Pride in Your Posters

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Need to make a poster? Whether it’s for a class, a conference or just for fun – take pride in your work. Specifically at professional research conferences trifold posters are never used. Yet, because printed posters can be pricy, trifold posters are sometimes our best option. I understand that paper and cut-out letters help beautify your …

PhotoVoice: Participatory Photography as a Digital Storytelling Tool

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This semester students from the paired course “Medical Sociology and the Science Behind Obesity” are engaging in a new way to do digital storytelling.  The method known as PhotoVoice is borrowed from a movement that aims to use participatory photography as a self-advocacy tool.  This assignment asks students to use photography and video as a way to tell …

Public Service Announcements (PSA)

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Public Service Announcements or Public Service Advertisement (PSA) are generally free media, often in the form of commercials or ads, produced by not-for-profit organizations and disseminated for the purposes of education. As an assignment, PSAs encourage students to combine traditional research with elements of design, visual and audio rhetoric, and to strategize mobilization campaigns to …

Office Hours

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I have added some office hours in the mornings on Wednesday. Please sign up for a slot, or stop by on Wednesdays! I may sometimes try to grab lunch at an earlier or later time on Wednesdays, depending on when students are coming in, but my basic Wednesday afternoon availability will hold.
And the sign-up tool should be working again.

Event: Feminist Library on Wheels

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  Please join Wardman Library, DigLibArts, and Alumni Programs & Giving in welcoming Dawn Finley ’00, co-founder of the Feminist Library on Wheels (F.L.O.W) with Jenn Witte, who returns to Whittier College to talk about the significance of feminist making/hacking, mobility, and books as vehicles for intellectual exchange in Los Angeles neighborhoods. We will be hosting an afternoon …

CAAS

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CAAS workshops are already under way!

Thursday,
9/22/16		 4:30 pm-
5:20 pm		 How Does This Work?: Understanding College as a First Generation College Student Villalobos Hall

Getting Started with WordPress and Whittier Domains

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This tutorial is CREATING A DOMAIN NAME Before getting started designing your own website using Whittier Domains, you need to choose a domain name. While you can make your domain name anything, why not maximize the potential? Here are eight tips from GoDaddy, one of the oldest web hosting companies: MAKE IT EASY TO TYPE …

Meet Your New Student Tech Liaisons!

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Fall is upon us again, and we’ve hired an amazing group of undergraduate students to be Student Technology Liaisons here to help support digital projects, undergraduate research, and experimentation in digital pedagogy. Nicole Guzzo returns as the Lead Tech Liaison and Poet Intern, and will be helping us to train mentor the new crop of tech …

Slides from Council of Independent Colleges, Consortium on Digital Resources

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I had a wonderful time presenting tonight at the opening dinner for the Consortium. (My first keynote. So glad it’s over, and that you all kindly laughed at the jokes.) Thanks so much to Susan Barnes Whyte for the invitation, and to Richard Ekman for the opportunity. Here are my slides. Please get in touch if you have any questions.… Read more →

Job: We’re Hiring Student Tech Liaisons!

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DigLibArts seeks to hire two self-motivated, creative, and ambitious Student Technology Liaisons to join our team. In past semesters, Technology Liaisons worked as peer mentors, led workshops, and helped research and experiment with digital media tools. You’ll gain valuable professional skills and learn to work collaboratively in the fast-paced emerging field of digital education and scholarship. Candidates will …