FLDH Executive Council members Julian Chambliss (Rollins College) and Scot French (UCF) facilitated a two-day Digital Literacy and Collaborative Learning Workshop at Rollins College on Aug. 18-19. Funded by an Associated Colleges of the South ACS/R-1 Grant, the workshop focused on “exploring how faculty can use digital tools to build community in the classroom, support collaborative projects, and create digital narratives that support pedagogy.” Participating faculty from Rollins and UCF are developing sample assignments to be posted on the FLDH commons and presented at THATCamp Florida.

DEADLINES: Applications are due August 15, 2017. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by September 1, 2017.

WORKSHOP DATES: October 31-November 1, 2017

The Florida Digital Humanities consortium (FLDH) is pleased to invite applications to a tools workshop for fall 2017 entitled: “Information Analysis:  The Role of Visualization Tools and Cloud Computing Platforms in Collaborative Research and Teaching.” The target audience for this workshop is individuals interested in learning about visualization and cloud computing tools.  The goal of the institute is to assist them in understanding the multiple ways Voyant, Tableau, and cloud computing can facilitate interdisciplinary digital humanities research and teaching.

For workshop and application details: Workshop Announcement

All application materials should be submitted by email as a single PDF file to fldigitalhumanities@gmail.com. The deadline for applications is August 15, 2017, and applicants will be notified by September 1, 2017. Questions to the FLDH Steering Committee may be directed to fldigitalhumanities@gmail.com.

The Florida Digital Humanities Consortium is the host for HASTAC 2017! The conference will be held in Orlando, Florida, November 2-4, 2017. The UCF Center for Emerging Media and the newly renovated Downtown Marriott will be the venue for this conference. Please mark your calendars for this great opportunity. Visit the website for more details. http://hastac2017.org/

As members of the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH), we wish to acknowledge the importance of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the U.S. Institute for Peace, the Appalachian Regional Commission, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

These agencies and programs provide all Americans valuable access to the humanities, arts, and media. They provide funding for school trips to museums and theaters, teacher institutes and education, and archival preservation of diverse cultural histories, among many other initiatives. Equally as important, they provide funding to help develop research and data, to build resources and programs, and to support individuals and communities pursuing cultural and humanities questions, at both big and small levels. As Florida residents, we know how much our communities have benefited from these efforts.

You are invited to THATCamp Gainesville, on 21 April, Friday, at the Harn Museum of Art!

THATCamp, The Humanities and Technology Camp, is an unconference which fosters informal and productive conversations about Digital Humanities and Public Humanities projects, topics, and skills. For all who work with and research Digital and Public Humanities, this unconference will be of interest to you. This year, there will be expected sessions on text encoding, community engagement, oral histories, digital mapping, and more. As they are submitted, you can browse all the session proposals here: http://gainesville2017.thatcamp.org/

THATCamps provide a good space to network and brainstorm. This year, it is expected that many UF and community folks will attend, as well as the dynamic mix of attendees found at other THATCamps from many institutions, including graduate students, scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, developers and programmers, K-12 teachers, administrators, managers, and funders as well as people from the non-profit sector, people from the for-profit sector, and interested amateurs.

Since it is an unconference, session proposals are directly posted on the website, where other participants can read them and comment on them. To get started, please register on the website. There is no registration cost. Register: http://gainesville2017.thatcamp.org/register/

If you would like to learn more about the kinds of sessions offered at THATCamp or you are ready to Propose a session, please click on the click on the link on this page: http://gainesville2017.thatcamp.org/propose/