Coffee and Conversation on Teaching with Digital Technologies

Thursday, Feb. 18th 2:30 pm

Sterling Library, Room 315

Alan Galey is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, where he also teaches in the collaborative program in Book History and Print Culture, and serves as Director of the Master of Information graduate program. His research and teaching are located at the intersection of textual studies, the history of books and reading, and the digital humanities, and his current research focuses mainly on the bibliographical study of born-digital texts and artifacts.

Thursday’s event will be a conversation about incorporating digital technologies into the classroom. Possible questions include: How does the classroom focus our thinking about digital methods, tools, and resources in the humanities in ways that research and project creation, by themselves, do not? What other forms can pedagogy take beyond the classroom, especially at the intersection of digital humanities and bibliographical scholarship? Finally, does digital humanities pedagogy focus too much on the application of tools at the expense of studying digital materiality itself, or are there examples of an achievable balance that we can consider? Please see the links here and here to current examples of digitally engaged courses taught by Prof. Galey.