Presentations

Children’s Literature Association 2019 Presentations

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Presentations:

Session 7A: “Intersectionality, Social Justice, and Pedagogies: Classroom Strategies” (co-sponsored by ChLA’s Diversity Committee and Membership Committee). 8:00 am – 9:15 am

  • Emily Rose Aguilo-Perez, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, “Mirrors, Windows, Sliding Glass Doors, and Intersectionality.”
  • Nithya Sivashankar, The Ohio State University, “A Dramatic Dialogic Inquiry Approach for Discussing Immigration in Classrooms.”
  • Erica Kanesaka Kalnay, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
    “Trigger Warnings: Affect, Access, Care.”
  • Rebekah Fitzsimmons, Georgia Institute of Technology,
    “Digital Resources to Promote Access for Students with Disabilities.”
  • Angel Daniel Matos, San Diego State University, “Recognizing and Challenging Ornamental Intersectionality.”

Slide Show Available here: CHLA2019 Digital Resources

Script Available here: 2019 Accessible Digital Pedagogy

Video – Features in PowerPoint to Aid Accessibility

Session 8A: 9:30 am – 10:45 am
Syllabus Swap: “Intersectionality, Social Justice, and Pedagogies” (co-sponsored by ChLA’s Diversity Committee and Membership Committee).

Handouts:

Photo shows Dr. Fitz gesturing emphatically at a slide about Stylometric analysis

A photo of me presenting at CHLA 2019 on my Caroline Hewins information

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Discussing the role of Digital Humanities and computers in our work as literature scholars.

Session 9D: Pedagogy, Digital Humanities, and Civic Engagement : CHAMBER, 11:00 am – 12:15 pm

Chair: LASANA KAZEMBE, IUPUI

  • KARA TAYLOR, IUPUI and EVAN TAYLOR, Indianapolis Public Schools Provoking Change: A Case of John Henry Changing the World
  •  REBEKAH FITZSIMMONS, Georgia Institute of Technology “Books for the Young”: Digital Humanities Approaches to Decoding the Canon
  • JEAN STEVENSON, University of Minnesota-Duluth (Retired)Making Jacqueline Woodson’s Revision Process in the Maison and Margaret Trilogy Accessible to Writers, Readers, and Teachers through First Pages

Slide Show of Presentation
CHLA2019_HewinsScript

CHLA2017 Digital Futures Baldwin Panel Abstracts
2017 Presentation – Hewins Book List
2017 Hewins Paper

 

6:30 pm – 7:30 pm………………Pre-1900 Scholars’ Meeting
“Crash Course on Archives,” round table participant

 

Invited Talk: Envisioning & Shaping Futures: On-Line Teaching and Learning

digital humanities, invited talk, Pedagogy, Presentations, research

I will be presenting at the Ivan Allen College Advance Lunch and Discussion this Thursday, February 28 from noon – 1:30. The overall theme of the discussion is “Envisioning & Shaping Futures: On-Line Teaching and Learning” and I will be talking specifically about using Twitter in the online/hybrid classroom to help bolster discussion and community exchange.

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Code4Lib Presentation: “The Possibly Impossible Research Project”

digital humanities, Pedagogy, Presentations, research

I am presenting today at Code4LibSE 2018 @ The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library. My presentation today is on a project I completed with my Spring 2018 Georgia Tech course on the History and Rhetoric of Science Writing for Children.

Presentation Slides: “The Possibly Impossible Research Project”: Using Digital Research and Social Media to Teach Archival Research Methods

Text Only Version of Presentation Script

 

Gallery Talk: Golden Legacy Exhibit

children's literature, Picture Books, Presentations, research

Gallery Talk: Children’s Literature, Illustration, and Collecting Books

Discover insights into children’s literature, understand illustration styles, and learn how book collections are curated, featuring four local panelists. Free.

Wednesday, July 11, 7:00pm
Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking 500 10th St. NW, Atlanta, GA 30332

I’ll be talking specifically about the creation and marketing of the Golden Book series and their role in the landscape of children’s literature today.

Gallery Talk July 11

CHLA 2018: The Handbook for Mortals and the Muddy Waters of YA Best Seller Status

Presentations, research, YA Literature

This year at CHLA in San Antonio, Texas I am making two presentations.

On Friday, June 29 at 11:00 am, I am participating in Panel 3B: The Syllabus Exchange. I will be presenting on Multimodal Assignments and talking about my most recent course, The History and Rhetoric of Science Writing for Children.

If you attended but were unable to take a copy of my handout home with you, please feel free to download a copy here:

CHLA 2018 Syllabus Swap Handout: Multimodal Assignments

On Saturday, June 30 at 3:30pm in the June Cummins room, I will be presenting a conference paper entitled “The Handbook for Mortals and the Muddy Waters of YA Best Seller Status.” If an attempt to make my presentation more accessible, please feel free to take a look at the complete PPT slide deck and the text version of my talk, available below.

Presentation Script (Text only version)

Handbook Muddy Waters PowerPoint Presentation

I hope to see you in San Antonio!

Celebrate Teaching Day 2018

Pedagogy, Presentations

This year, for Georgia Tech’s Celebrate Teaching Day, I chose to focus on using social media (i.e. Twitter) to create a public-facing research journal. This exercise was a part of a larger unit asking students to research possibly impossible materials on 19th century female authors of science texts for children, in co-operation with the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature. For more on this assignment, please see the entry for this course in my teaching portfolio.

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Presentation at MLA 2018

Presentations, research

I will be presenting on the 2018 MLA Panel 314 titled “Blended Learning: Balancing Social Media and Face-to-Face Pedagogies.” The panel is sponsored by the HEP* Teaching as a Profession and will take place on Friday, January 5, 2018, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Chelsea Room, Sheraton.

My paper “Better Learning through Hashtags: Building Community and Improving Discussion with Twitter” will discuss productive ways to integrate Twitter into composition and English classroom practices; it will cover both general best practice guidelines and specific examples of successful activities, based on a case-study course taught at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2016 and 2017. This presentation will argue that as a classroom tool, Twitter can be used to improve comprehension, expand peer-to-peer interaction, reinforce active learning, and introduce multimodal forms of class participation. Well-designed Twitter assignments and activities can expand students’ spheres of interaction beyond the physical classroom and into a digital social media environment. This presentation will discuss the potential of “livetweeting” as a framework for student active learning work that embraces the interactive and collaborative nature of Twitter as a social media platform.

My Powerpoint is available here: MLA2018_BetterLearningThroughHashtags