Humanities 2.0: How Web 2.0 is Changing the Humanities Classroom Andrea Eastman-Mullins

1. Humanities 2.0: How Web 2.0 is Changing the Humanities Classroom Andrea Eastman-Mullins August 8, 2007

2. Table of Contents • My background & Alexander Street Press • “Humanities 2.0” tools • World Literature: text analysis • Music: playlists • Theatre: annotated video clips • History: document projects • Interdisciplinary: Synchrotext • Summary

3. Alexander Street Press… • Based in Alexandria, Virginia • Founded in 2000, now 68 people • Publishes high quality digital collections in the Humanities and Social Sciences. • Primary materials, audio, video, some journals • Published and previously unpublished • Won awards from CHOICE, Library Journal, The Charleston Advisor.

4. What we do… Latino / L.A. Studies North American History Drama Religion & Social Thought Black History and Literature Women’s History and Literature Music Psychology

5. Technology & the Humanities

6. World Literature • Search features for text analysis • PhiloLogic software developed at the University of Chicago Answers questions like… (in Latino Literature) • How many times do Cuban authors use island or homeland versus Puerto Rican authors? • Show me all works written in the 1880s that discuss esclavatura/escravidão (slavery). • Give me all works written in Spanish with the word dictadura/ditadura (dictatorship) within 5 words of guerra (war). • Show me the novels of Chicano women authors who were born in California.

10. World Literature: Text Analysis Can the gender of Shakespeare’s characters be determined by word use? Sobhan Raj Hota, Shlomo Argamon, Rebecca Chung (Illinois Institute of Technology) http://lingcog.iit.edu/doc/hota_dhcs2006.pdf

11. Music: Playlists • Playlists on Alexander Street’s music products – over 19,000 users • Over 100,000 playlists created so far • 800 created by Alexander Street editors • 38,000 user created • 70,000 derivative playlists • Playlists in the classroom: • Organize tracks around a theme, i.e. Minimalism • Add to Blackboard using permanent URLs • Use for listening tests • Students use for self-tests

13. Music: Playlists

14. Music: Playlists

16. Music: Playlists for Listening Tests

17. Theatre: Annotated Video Clips Theatre in Video • 250 full length productions & over 100 documentaries • streaming video • User-generated clips • Playlists In the Classroom • Isolate and compare the storm scenes in different productions of King Lear. • Organize a playlist around a theme (Theatre History: Changes in style from Molière to Ibsen to Miller) • Have students add their own clips to a production (impressions of seeing a production vs. reading the play in Theatre Appreciation) • Group plays and clips of interviews with playwrights, directors, etc.

23. History: Document Projects Kathryn Sklar & Tom Dublin, SUNY Binghamton General Editors Women and Social Movements, 1600-2000 • Began at SUNY Binghamton • Primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, Web site reviews, and teaching tools • Documents the multiplicity of women’s activism in public life Over 75 “Document Projects” • Pose interpretive questions (“How did women participate in the Underground Railroad?”) • Answer the questions by examining 20-50 primary documents • Model the process of historical analysis for students

24. History: Document Projects Examples: • How Did the Ladies Association of Philadelphia Shape New Forms of Women's Activism During the American Revolution, 1780-1781? • How Did White Women Aid Former Slaves During and After the Civil War, 1863-1891? • How Did Black and White Southern Women Campaign to End Lynching, 1890-1942? • How and Why Did the Guerrilla Girls Alter the Art Establishment in New York City, 1985-1995? • How Have Recent Social Movements Shaped Civil Rights Legislation for Women?  The 1994 Violence Against Women Act.

27. History: Document Project Assignments Professor Nancy Page Fernandez California State Polytechnic University at Pomona Write a 10-12 page memoir assuming the persona of a woman living in 1859 using, in part, resources from the following document projects: • Oberlin Women and Antebellum Social Movements • The Appeal of Female Moral Reform • The Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform Movement • Bible Communism and Women of the Oneida Community • Lucretia Mott's Reform Networks

28. History: Document Project Assignments Professor Joyce Hanson, California State, San Bernardino Threaded discussion on suffrage movement documents.

29. History: Second Wave Wiki http://scholar.alexanderstreet.com

30. Interdisciplinary: Synchrotext http://performedwords.org/

31. Interdisciplinary: Synchrotext http://performedwords.org/

32. Summary

33. Questions? Andrea Eastman-Mullins aeastmanmullins@astreetpress.com http://www.alexanderstreet.com