Cognitive Science Program

Scholarly Communications in Digital Arts & Humanities (2019)
Michelle Dalmau, Kalani L Craig

Abstract

While we often think about the end form - website, digital journal, online resource - when we talk about digital scholarly communications, the work of digital arts and humanities publishing starts at the very beginning of a project. we will walk participants through what digital publications are (moving behind articles and monographs to peer-reviewed datasets and visualizations), how to present these in peer-review and promotion settings, and how to craft a project that takes these publication types and needs to account during the early, mid, and late- research stages. From practical data-management and storage concerns to the more intellectually challenging questions of how to frame the disciplinary outcomes of digital projects to our readers and peers, we will send participants home with a project plan and set of campus resources to support that plan.

Why Use Digital Methods in Arts and Humanities Classrooms? (2019)
Michelle Dalmau, Kalani L Craig

Abstract

We're all buried in the digital world when we work on our own arts & humanities projects - whether it's reading the digital copy of an article, snapping smartphone photos of related work, or collaborating with editors over email. When these digital environments are harnessed thoughtfully and critically, we can use digital methods to showcase the research and creative work we do every day in our classrooms. This workshop will explore classroom-based digital activities that provide students with hands-on experience using mapping, data mining, network analysis, data visualization, and 3D rendering to support arts & humanities questions. We'll also engage participants in several white-board and sticky-note versions of these activities that use analog methods to enhance understanding of the digital world in which our students move.

Why Use Digital Methods in Arts and Humanities Research (2019)
Kalani L Craig, Michelle Dalmau

Abstract

Digital image manipulation, social network analysis and data mining can change our perceptions of the world around us, but they also require careful critical use. This presentation will take arts & humanities practitioners through mapping, data mining, network analysis, data visualization, 3D rendering, computationally aided vision and other digital methods in a variety of disciplines and tachle some of the critical issues for digital arts & humanities practitioners. We'll also provide a clear list of IU resources that can support these efforts. Finally, we'll all engage in a practical white-board-based activity that doesn't require digital tools to demonstrate how analog methods can enhance understanding of some of these digital-methods applications in a variety of environments (including the classroom).

Network Analysis and Geography (2019)
Daniel Story, Kalani Craig
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Abstract

Want to visualize and study a network in geographic space? We'll do a hands-on exercise with the powerful network analysis software Gephi. Learn about what files Gephi needs to create a network, some basic visualization and analysis options, and how to locate points in your network in geographic space. Participants will need a laptop with Gephi already installed.

Introduction to Network Analysis Tools (2019)
Mary Borgo Ton, Kalani Craig

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Interested in using network analysis in your research or teaching? Come to this hands-on session where we will deal with the basics of cleaning and formatting your data and loading it into the simple network visualization app Google Fusion Tables. We'll conclude by discussing (and demonstrating) how this as well as analog approaches to network analysis can work in the classroom. Participants will need a laptop.

Mediating Collaboration in History with Network Analysis (2019)
Haesol Bae, Kalani Craig, Joshua Danish, Cindy Hmelo-Silver, Suraj Uttamchandani, Maksymilian Szostalo
International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS).

Abstract

This poster discusses a promising collaboration platform to encourage students in co- constructing historical knowledge through a network visualization tool. The tool uniquely mediated collaboration at both the small and large group level in a big lecture format undergraduate history class. The findings demonstrated the tool mediated a specific sequence of collaborating processes at both levels and students' ability to see the historical relationships.

The Power of Network Analysis Tool for Collaborative Learning (2019)
Haesol Bae, Kalani Craig, Joshua Danish, Cindy E Hmelo-Silver, Suraj Uttamchandani, Maksymilian Szostalo, Ann McCranie
International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS).

Abstract

Net.Create is an open source network analysis software tool that affords simultaneous data-entry and network analysis to help students collaboratively co-construct knowledge about a large corpus of data. In this interactive demo, we demonstrate how the tool uniquely supports collaboration at both the small and large group level in a big lecture format to facilitate discovery, discussion, and reading comprehension in an interactive and engaging way.

What Can Networks Do For Me? (2018)
Kalani Craig, David Kloster

Abstract

Network analysis provides a data-driven analysis and visualization exploration of relationships in digital arts & humanities, but within that umbrella is a variety of approaches to understanding interaction between elements of a system. We'll use your research question to help you think through how these relationships might work in a network analysis of your own and demonstrate how an in-classroom network-analysis activity can also help your students see relationships unfold in your discipline.

Data Mining for Humanists (2018)
Kalani Craig, Michelle Dalmau, Tassie Gniady

Abstract

From the open, largely unstructured text of the novel, to the structured world of social-network entries, to the automated comparison of photographs on a pixel-by-pixel basis, data mining has a broad set of applications for arts & humanities folks. We'll use your research question or object as the entry point to make sense of the world of data mining and send you home with an activity you can adapt and use to introduce your students to data mining in your discipline.

Introduction to Digital Methods: An Overview of Digital Arts and Humanities (2018)
Kalani Craig, Michelle Dalmau, Tassie Gniady

Abstract

Digital image manipulation, social network analysis, and data mining can change our perceptions of the world around us, but they also require careful, critical use. This presentation will take arts & humanities practitioners through mapping, data mining, network analysis, data visualization, 3D rendering, computationally aided vision, and other digital methods in a variety of disciplines and tackle some of the critical issues for digital arts and humanities practitioners.

Choosing a Digital Method: Making Digital Objects (2017)
Kalani L Craig, Tassie Gniady

Abstract

From installations overlaid on the world around us to reprints of otherwise inaccessible archaeological finds that we can handle at will, digital objects help us interact with and understand the world differently. This workshop will walk through a wide variety of digital-making methods, from the 3D scanning of real world objects to laser cut mixed-media structures, and offer a clear view of the analog skills that underpin these digital approaches. We'll use your research question or object as the entry point to make sense of the world of digital making and rendering, and we’ll also send you home with an activity that will help you bring digital making into your classroom. This presentation was part of a series of workshops offered by the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities called Choosing a Digital Method.

Choosing a Digital Method: Networks (2017)
Kalani L Craig

Abstract

Network analysis provides a data-driven analysis and visualization exploration of relationships in digital arts & humanities, but within that umbrella is a variety of approaches to understanding interaction between elements of a system. We'll use your research question to help you think through how these relationships might work in a network analysis of your own and demonstrate how an in-classroom network-analysis activity can also help your students see relationships unfold in your discipline.​ This workshop was part of the Choosing a Digital Methods series from the Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities.

Choosing a Digital Method: Data Mining (2017)
Kalani L Craig

Abstract

Data mining encompasses a several different approaches to exploring large swaths of information, from the open largely unstructured text of the novel to the structured world of social-network entries to the automated comparison of photographs on a pixel-by-pixel basis. We'll use your research question or object as the entry point to make sense of the world of data mining and send you home with an activity you can adapt and use to introduce your students to data mining in your discipline

Choosing Digital Methods: Updating Your Pedagogy and Research for the 21st Century (2017)
Kalani Craig, Michelle Dalmau
Indiana University Digital Collections Services.

Abstract

The 2016 election cycle showed us how digital methods like image manipulation, social network analysis and data mining can change our perceptions of the world around us. This presentation will take these digital methods and demonstrate how applications to the arts & humanities can help us craft new research questions and answer those questions. We will discuss how to (or not to) apply mapping, data mining, network analysis, data visualization, 3D rendering, computationally aided vision and other digital methods to a variety of disciplines. We’ll also provide a clear list of IU resources that can support these efforts. Finally, we’ll engage in a practical white-board-based activity that doesn’t require digital tools to demonstrate how analog methods can enhance understanding of some of these digital-methods applications in a variety of environments (including the classroom). This presentation kicks off a series of workshops offered by the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities called Choosing a Digital Method.

History in 140 characters: Twitter to Support Reading Comprehension and Argumentation in Digital-Humanities Pedagogy (2017)
Kalani Craig
Emerging Learning Design Journal, 5 (), 19-28

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Click-bait headlines that tackle the modern phenomenon of social media often rail against the stultifying effects of too much Twitter. At the same time, productive educational use of Twitter in the classroom is a particularly germane area of study for digital humanists, who consider Twitter a central piece of their community-building practices. This case-study analysis addresses the use of microblogging by using activity theory to understand how social media can be harnessed to help students quickly appropriate the norms of professional historians in a discipline they often encounter as passive listeners in a large lecture course. Students reimagined Prokopios’ biography of Justinian by Tweeting from three perspectives. In a preparatory exercise, students included substantive interpretive information in 66% of their Prokopios Tweets, and 18% of the Tweets had errors. After the activity, 73% of the Tweets were substantive and errors had been reduced to 8%. Twitter situated the goal of reading comprehension in a modern medium that requires rapid repurposing of content, explicit emphasis on the citation practices that govern published history research, and a clear purpose for their work—interaction with, dependence on, and fodder for the interpretive historical-perspective acts being performed by their peers, a co-construction of knowledge that closely mimics professional historical practice.