Facilitation as Innovation

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Benefits of Technology in Teaching and Research

• Public Accountability
• Production Learning
• Scholarly Interaction
• Confluence of Multimedia
• Desktop Availability

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Public Accountability

• showering in public
• burden/opportunity of multiple audiences
• more thorough engagement in subject

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Production Learning

• Students build usable scholarly products based on
  and/or serving as basis for further teaching or
  research

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Scholarly Interaction

• Interdisciplinary
• Global
• Real time

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Confluence of Multimedia

• Text, image, animation, film, sound as equal
  sources in an argument
• Sources can be provided together in digital
  format through single interface

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Desktop Availability

• Hidden, lost, or rare materials
• Geographically dispersed materials
• Cataloguing and metadata

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Existing and Future Projects

• A Charleston Love Story a hypertext
• The Robert Johnson Notebooks
• The Porter Archive

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A Charleston Love Story a hypertext

• Built in an effort to reintroduce a lost novel.
  
• Includes histories, biographies, critical
  discussion, bibliography, and the full-text of
  the novel

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A Charleston Love Story a hypertext
Public Accountability
Production Learning

• MA thesis made readily available to world
• analysis of and provision for non-academic
  audience

• Built to be used in the African-American
  Literature classroom

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A Charleston Love Story a hypertext
Scholarly Interaction
Desktop Availability

• Guidance and reaction from departments of
  English, American Studies, History,
  African-American Studies...

• Only 2 catalogued copies of the novel 1 is
  non-circulating
• Hypertext version (PLUS contextual material) is
  available anytime, anywhere

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The Robert Johnson Notebooks

• Companion resource for UVA class
• Contains full text of blues lyrics, verse
  analysis, audio clips, biography, bibliography,
  criticism, and a teaching unit

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The Robert Johnson Notebooks
Production Learning
Scholarly Interaction

• Students contributed to site
• Student contributions used in subsequent
  teachings of the course

• Criticism and analysis available to classmates in
  open forum
• response to site from musicians, historians,
  filmmakers, recording engineers, teachers,
  poets...

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The Robert Johnson Notebooks
Confluence of Multimedia
Desktop Availability

• Music presented side-by-side with verse,
  criticism, and analysis

• Only resource for discussion of Johnsons
  poetics, enhanced by teaching unit, biography,
  bibliography, glossary, etc.

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The Porter Archive

• Why? Special collection of UMD and easy
  adaptability for interdisciplinary teaching and
  research
• Taking as model the Rossetti, Blake, and
  Dickinson archives, synthesized with teaching
  elements as in The Robert Johnson Notebooks

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The Porter Archive

• Manuscript images
• E-texts of published criticisms
• Syllabi using archive resources
• Student writing
• Bibliographies
• Photos and other non-textual items from the
  manuscript collection

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The Porter Archive

• Use of archive materials in coursework
  (production learning)
• Student work is added to archive to be used by
  future students (production learning)
• Gateway to Porter teaching worldwide (scholarly
  interaction)
• Porter papers are non-circulating, but E-versions
  would be available

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Courtney S. Danforth