This workshop introduces participants to one way in which students are experiencing cultural content in a class designed specifically to take advantage of a variety of technologies used to encourage them to express their understanding of the course content. Participants will not only become familiar with the tool but more specifically, how the tool is being used in a Digital Africana Studies course at the University of Arizona. The highlight of the course is a mid-semester (Spring Break) trip to Paris to experience some of that which is being studied throughout the term. During the excursion, students use a variety of tools to digitally document their experiences. These include 360 images and video, traditional images and video, the construction of a Web Site and live broadcasting. Each of these tools is connected to at least one learning outcome, thus reinforcing the experience through technology while focusing on cultural content.
Participants in this session will be introduced to the course objectives and methodology through hands on activities designed to provide a compressed version of that which students do throughout the term. A premiere of the 360 collaborative digital narrative put together by the most recent cohort of students who traveled to Paris over Spring Break 2019 will also be shown.
In the 1920s and 1930s, the soulful rhythms of blues and jazz signaled an explosion of African American creativity. During this period, known as the New Negro Movement and later known as the Harlem Renaissance, musicians, dancers, visual artists, writers, and scholars sought to define their African heritage in American culture. During the period from just after World War I until just after the stock market crash in 1929, the vibrancy of the newly discovered African American art, music and literature were celebrated in Harlem, New York and other cities around the world. This course specifically focuses on the "reflexive" nature of the relationship between Harlem, NY and Paris, France where a number of African American artists, musicians, scholars and entrepreneurs.
This workshop introduces participants to one way in which students are experiencing cultural content in a class designed specifically to take advantage of a variety of technologies used to encourage them to express their understanding of the course content. Participants will not only become familiar with the tool but more specifically, how the tool is being used in a Digital Africana Studies course at the University of Arizona. The highlight of the course is a mid-semester (Spring Break) trip to Paris to experience some of that which is being studied throughout the term. During the excursion, students use a variety of tools to digitally document their experiences. These include 360 images and video, traditional images and video, the construction of a Web Site and live broadcasting. Each of these tools is connected to at least one learning outcome, thus reinforcing the experience through technology while focusing on cultural content.
Participants in this session will be introduced to the course objectives and methodology through hands on activities designed to provide a compressed version of that which students do throughout the term. A premiere of the 360 collaborative digital narrative put together by the most recent cohort of students who traveled to Paris over Spring Break 2019 will also be shown.