Brittain Fellow Rebekah Fitzsimmons Publishes Article on Teaching Digital and Archival Research Methodologies

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Atlanta, GA | Posted: January 8, 2019

Article in The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy titled "Possibly Impossible; Or, Teaching Undergraduates to Confront Digital and Archival Research Methodologies, Social Media Networking, and Potential Failure."

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Based on a recent WCP ENGL 1102 course, Dr. Fitzsimmons co-authored an article with the curator of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature at the University of Florida on digital archival research via social media.

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This article details an undergraduate student research project titled “The Possibly Impossible Research Project,” a collaborative effort between the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature at the University of Florida and the Writing and Communication Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The article outlines the pedagogy behind a multimodal digital research project that provided Georgia Tech students with in-depth instruction into archival research processes while improving the Baldwin’s annotated bibliography. The article then details the process of teaching the course and how students responded to the project both during and after the course. This assignment also offered students an opportunity to uncover and make meaning as researchers in their own right, and to distribute that new knowledge through public facing digital platforms such as Twitter and Wikipedia. The authors conclude that the collaborative project had meaningful impacts on the undergraduate students, the course instructor, the curator of the Baldwin Library, and the larger academic community; further, it can serve as a model for engaging undergraduate students with archival research, analysis, and dissemination. This article outlines the assignment in detail, including the interactive digital scaffolding assignments. The article cites student research journal tweets and final reflective portfolio essays to demonstrate the successful fulfillment of the student learning outcomes.

The article appears in Issue Fourteen of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. Issue Fourteen is a themed issue, dedicated to the topic of Teaching & Research with Archives.

For the complete article, visit: https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/possibly-impossible-or-teaching-undergraduates-to-confront-digital-and-archival-research-methodologies-social-media-networking-and-potential-failure/

 

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Research, Digital Media and Entertainment
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Research, Digital Archives, Digital humanities, student research, social media
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  • Created On: Jan 8, 2019 - 10:39am
  • Last Updated: Jan 8, 2019 - 10:40am