Digital Pedagogy Fellowships Archive
Faculty fellows from 2019-2023 worked with LITS colleagues to develop or refine specific course assignment(s) that included digital learning approaches. The structure of the funded projects and related activities took many forms, but bold initiatives and collaboration were especially valued. The fellowships were sponsored jointly by the Dean of Faculty and Library and Information Technology Services.
The projects:
- innovated with technology-enabled pedagogies
- infused digital competencies into new and existing courses or
- explored the impact of technology through classroom instruction, assignments, and co-curricular experiences.
2023 Fellowships
- Celeste Day Moore, Associate Professor of History
- Mariah Stember, Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies
Celeste Day Moore
Description
Professor Moore’s project will explore the use of data visualizations to help her students interrogate the critical role of cities in shaping African American life. Assignments for her Black Metropolis course will introduce students to the pioneering sociological work of scholar W.E.B. Du Bois, whose visual representations of Black life created for display at the 1900 Paris Exposition remain original and fascinating glimpses into the experiences of African Americans in a period of heightened political and social violence. First by analyzing his portraits and then by developing their own visualizations using census data, students will be better equipped to understand and critique the role of data in both historical and contemporary narratives of urbanity and race.
LITS Consultants
Reid Larson
Mariah Stember
Description
Professor Stember’s project will reconceptualize students’ final projects in an upper-level Women’s and Gender Studies seminar. Students will create interactive, engaging websites that highlight their knowledge of feminist theory. Stember and her students will work together to create professional websites that include interactive images, photo and image galleries, data displays, and infographics or videos. The project will inspire students to think creatively and bridge the divide between theory and praxis by generating a publicly accessible website that displays their analysis and understanding of feminist theory.
LITS Consultants
Lynn Mayo, Forrest Warner
2022 Fellowships
- Karen Brewer, Silas D. Childs Professor of Chemistry
- Arathi Menon, Assistant Professor of Art History
Karen Brewer
Description
Professor Brewer's project will expand an already-existing small library of in-class polls for use in the large lecture-based, introductory chemistry course to increase student engagement. The project will identify software that can support live, in-class polls employing universal design principles and develop questions that help students reflect on their learning in an environment that promotes equity, inclusivity, and belonging.
LITS Consultants
Glynis Asu, Ben Salzman
Arathi Menon
Description
Professor Menon will explore ways in which digitally-enabled technologies can be used to deepen student engagement with the issue of provenance of art from South and Southeast Asia. Her project will employ 3D technology to reconstruct the original surroundings of a select group of architectural fragments and sculptures to offer students the opportunity to move within the lived spaces of these artifacts virtually. Standing with these artifacts as they once existed in history will aid students in the critical examination of the layered histories of these objects of cultural heritage and global significance and help students better understand their subsequent transformation in the museum context.
LITS Consultants
Lynn Mayo, Ben Salzman
2021 Fellowships
- Alex Manning, Assistant Professor of Sociology
- Mike McCormick, Associate Professor of Biology
Alex Manning
Description
Over the academic year, Professor Manning will develop assignments that utilize podcasting and virtual reality technology. He is excited to work with these innovative forms of technology because of their increased and substantive popularity in a variety of arenas. Through this fellowship he will learn about, workshop, and incorporate podcasting and virtual reality to support the learning goals for two sociology courses: Sports & Society, and Racism & Race in the United States. This support will provide opportunities for students to implement their creativity, develop critical analytical skills, and effectively synthesize and communicate sophisticated sociological ideas about society in ways that are accessible and inviting to a wider public.
LITS Consultants
Sacharja Cunningham, Reid Larson
Mike McCormick
Description
Professor McCormick's project will use a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) fitted with cameras to collect underwater imagery in Green Lake. These images will be used to construct 3-D models of the biofilms and to produce a 360-degree virtual reality immersive tour allowing the viewer to experience a virtual dive through the lake’s layers. These models and images will permit students to visualize the dramatic changes that occur in the water column and will help test a hypothesis that the biofilm locations show specific correlations to the geologic formations in which the lake basin is situated. The VR tour will also be shared with the Environmental Education Center at Green Lake’s State Park to help better educate the public about the fascinating microbial processes occurring in this rare and highly valuable ecosystem.
Green Lake, in Fayetteville, NY, is world renowned for its beauty but also for its scientific value as a rare example of meromixis (a lake that does not experience annual mixing). This condition has produced two layers in the lake that have dramatically different chemical and physical properties. Essentially, Green Lake is like two lakes stacked one on top of the other. These separate water bodies host very different microbial communities and for this reason, the lake has been the focus of research in the McCormick geomicrobiology lab since 2004.
LITS Consultants
Doug Higgins, Glynis Asu
2019 Fellowships
- Jose Ceniseros, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Ben Smith, Director of the Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning Center
Branden Stone, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics - Ella Gant, Professor of Art
- Viva Horowitz, Assistant Professor of Physics
- Katharine Kuharic, Professor of Art
- Janelle Schwartz, General Director of the Hamilton Adirondack Program
- Peter Simons, Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Jose Ceniseros, Ben Smith, Branden Stone
Description
Faculty in the Mathematics Department will collaborate with the Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning Center and LITS to integrate new digital tools into the teaching and support of Calculus 2 and 3. The project will employ the Maple and WeBWork platforms to enable faculty and students to create and distribute digital content, including lab assignments, review exercises, and open-ended exams. Maple will be used to introduce students to design thinking through writing scripts to create 3D visualizations of complex mathematical objects and associated data. WeBWork will bridge the gap between classroom learning and the support provided by the QSR Center’s peer tutors, who will have the ability to create helpful content using the same platforms as instructors.
LITS Consultants
Glynis Asu, Doug Higgins
Ella Gant
Description
Students in Professor Gant’s advanced video course (ART 313) will gain skills in creating their own digital identity while gaining an understanding of website and blog creation along with important design skills that directly tie into to the student learning objective of “aesthetic discernment.” The initial stage of this project will introduce basic tools and concepts into the art department and digital arts curriculum that result in creatively produced, ethically considered, aesthetically analyzed, and professionally presented web-based video portfolios. The larger vision includes using this class structure as a model for introducing cPanel and WordPress as core digital and web-design skills for all Hamilton students across media areas and disciplinary practices beyond video production.
LITS Consultants
Sacharja Cunningham, Lynn Mayo, Bret Olsen, Ben Salzman
Viva Horowitz
Description
Professor Horowitz’s new course on quantum computing will provide an opportunity for career-bound students in physics and related disciplines to connect the esoteric world of quantum mechanics with the practical world of computer engineering. An important component of the class will be to introduce students without any programming experience to coding by writing small scripts in Python. Students will develop these programming skills through online, interactive tutorials developed by Horowitz and LITS instructional designers. In addition, students will be using a course blog to communicate their learning processes with one another.
LITS Consultants
Glynis Asu, Doug Higgins, Ben Salzman
Katharine Kuharic
Description
In her 100-level figure drawing course (ART 160) Professor Kuharic will ask her students to go beyond the traditional tools and forms of drawing to learn how 3D printing technology maps and plots two-dimensional information mathematically into physically realized objects. Students will first produce carefully articulated two-dimensional drawings in multiple perspectives, from which contemporary anatomical casts will be 3D printed. Through the process of scanning their drawings, students will gain a better understanding of proportion, perspective, geometric form and the visual effects of light and shadow. Their 3D printed models will form the beginning of a teaching collection of models for students of drawing, painting, sculpture and anatomy.
LITS Consultants
Doug Higgins, Lynn Mayo
Janelle Schwartz
Description
Students working on their Hamilton Adirondack Program capstone project (COLEG 373) under the guidance of Professor Schwartz will explore ways in which digital technologies can support, enhance, and advocate for the rural, wilderness-based communities in the Adirondack Park. In particular, they will develop skills with blogging, mapping and video technology through their contribution to three discrete projects both individually and in teams. They will create a shared WordPress site and blog to document and reflect on their individual and common experiences. They will collect information related to existing medical and health facilities and make their findings publicly available through a dynamic map created with ArcGIS Online. Finally, they will become digital media creators by producing 3-5-minute documentaries about critical Adirondack issues that will be shared with the local community at the conclusion of the semester.
LITS Consultants
Glynis Asu, Doug Higgins, Bret Olsen, Deborah Reichler
Peter Simons
Description
Students in Professor Simons’ “Re-Mapping American Frontiers” (HIST 245) course will use College Hill as a cartographic laboratory in which to better understand spatial relationships and develop the digital skills needed to represent them. They will then apply the skills developed in their exploration of this familiar space to the nation as whole in a second assignment that questions traditional narratives of westward expansion, demonstrates how different cultures conceptualized and used space, and makes clear the mechanics through which the United States added to its territory. In both cases, students will make their work publicly available to a wide audience through the creation of multi-layered, digital atlases.
LITS Consultants
Reid Larson, Lisa McFall, Deborah Reichler
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