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Event: High-Tech Happy Hour, Spring 2017

It’s time to celebrate (nearly) surviving another academic year, and to revel in the company and accomplishments of our peers at Whittier College with another High-Tech Happy Hour. This time around we’ll have short presentations from the following: Lorelei Coddington (Education) Student Website Student Digital Story Kate Durbin (English and Writing) Bill$ Victoria’s Big Secret …

DigLibArts 2020: A Whittier.Domain for Oneself

Over the past couple of years, I’ve been working on a slow rollout of one of DigLibArts’ larger projects, Whittier.Domains, our local version of Domain of One’s Own, originally an enterprise from of University of Mary Washington. This initiative was started at Whittier College to allow students, faculty, staff, and campus organizations to register for …

News: DH Tools Across Disciplines, Anne at Santa Clara University

Cross-posted from anitaconchita.org This past week, I had the pleasure of leading a workshop on using “Digital Humanities Tools Across Disciplines” at Santa Clara University to their newly formed Center for Arts and Humanities faculty working group in digital humanities and their library. Many thanks to Michelle Burnham and Amy Lueck for the invitation and …

Workshop: DH Tools Across Disciplines, Santa Clara University

This past week, I had the pleasure of leading a workshop on using “Digital Humanities Tools Across Disciplines” at Santa Clara University to their newly formed Center for Arts and Humanities faculty working group in digital humanities and their library. Many thanks to Michelle Burnham and Amy Lueck for the invitation! In many ways, I
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Digital Journalism Tools

While the most important element of journalism (print, digital, etc.) will always be ethical, well-researched, verified, and substantiated writing, in digital media, there are many ways to enhance that writing. Below, we’ve collected a few resources to help review intellectual property and copyright in the digital age, and to produce visuals, interactive media, and more. Intellectual …

Public Service Announcements (PSA)

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 …

Event: Feminist Library on Wheels

  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 …