UCL Centre for Digital Humanities

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• The Great Parchment Book article in the THE
• MA/MSc in Digital Humanities film
• Digital Pedagogies event report
• Social Media and the Museum
• Seminar: An Ontology for 3D Visualisation in Cultural Heritage
• British Library Labs project talk
• Digital Classicist seminar series
• UCL Staff Research Conference
• Digital Excursion: Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
• Mandarin conversations for Bridge to China 通往中国的桥梁

The Great Parchment Book article in the THE Posted: 21 Jun 2013 04:38 AM PDT Melissa Terras, UCLDH Director, talks to the THE about the work being done at UCL to create a digital version of the fire-damaged Great Parchment Book.

MA/MSc in Digital Humanities film Posted: 20 Jun 2013 07:59 AM PDT We were really pleased to be asked by the UCL Faculty of Arts and Humanities to make a film about the MA/MSc in Digital Humanities.  If you are interested in studying Digital Humanities, or want to know more about the subject, it’s a great starting point and source of information. Places are still available for September 2013 entry but the programme is filling up fast and the deadline for applications is 2nd August 2013. Details on how to apply can be found on the Digital Humanities section of the online prospectus. And here’s the film! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2KzTPnU0Eo A huge thanks to the students who took part, you all look and sound great.  Time to play spot the UCLDH staff members….

Digital Pedagogies event report Posted: 17 Jun 2013 02:31 AM PDT Report from Rachel Kasbohm: UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, in partnership with the Higher Education Academy, hosted a FREE 'unconference'* focusing on bringing together the e-learning and digital humanities communities to discuss the development of 'Digital Pedagogies' in University teaching last Thursday. With nearly 20 proposed sessions, about 8 proposals had to be put on the ‘back burner’ for the time being. The voted in proposals were placed throughout the day, and delegates got to construct their own experience. Regrettably, I couldn’t have sat in on all the sessions, but the sessions that were chosen received great feedback. Twitter proved to be an excellent communication between delegates in sessions together, as well as those in different ones and who couldn’t attend on the day. The brief wrap-up session was the first time that delegates were together since the morning to discuss their experiences, ideas and outcomes of the day. Great feedback about the ‘unconference’ structure proved that perhaps the traditional conference structure doesn’t always provide a space for innovation and discussion. Indeed, one delegate stated that her only regret of the day was that she wasn’t able to attend all the sessions! Below are links to material of both the sessions that took place and those that didn’t: Peter Bryant’s ‘E-Learning Potential‘ James Baker’s notes from his ‘DH in the Classroom’ session Julie Watson’s ‘Digital Literacies Toolkit’ Rocío Díaz Bravo’s and Matteo Fumagalli’s ‘The Potential of Second Life for Student Learning’ Jenny Bunn’s ‘CURATE GAME’ (Information and Material for those who want to try it out) Pat Lockley’s ‘Visualisations 101′ Simon Mahony, Uli and Davor’s Open Educational Resources: using, re-using, re-mixing and re-purposing content (this too) Even more delegate blogs of the day! James Baker’s ‘DH in the classroom, or "We successfully made nothing!": thoughts on Digital Pedagogies THATCamp 2013‘ Do you have a blog post, session proposals or even more information? Please comment below to share! Complete list of proposed sessions Digital Pedagogies website List of registered delegates Thank you again from all of us at UCL Centre for Digital Humanities and Higher Education Academy!

Social Media and the Museum Posted: 12 Jun 2013 04:01 AM PDT         As part of the Social Media Knowledge Exchange programme  UCLDH hosted a one day workshop on our theme, Social Media and the museum. We had a great turn out (despite the sunshine) with much thought provoking discussion. There was a good range of social media practitioners, museum professionals, students and ECRs. One of my co-organisers Claire Ross has a very extensive write up of the event on her blog and so I won’t compete with that here but instead will make the presentation slides available. Mark Carnall (Grant Museum): GrantMuseum CollectingSocialMedia Alex Smith (Islington Museum): Social media: worth the time for small museums? Laura Lannin & Ellie Miles (Museum of London): CollectingSocialMedia Daniel Pett (British Museum): Production/consumption – museum social media in use The workshop was rounded off with Social Media Challenge; an excellent competition, run by Mark Carnall (Grant Museum), getting us to think about how to respond to those awkward and difficult posts,tweets etc.