Contemporary Research: Skills, Methods and Strategies (EN6009) is a team-taught module that introduces postgraduate students in the School of English MA programmes to a range of skills, methods and strategies needed to conduct quality literary research. My role is to focus on developing students’ digital literacy. We use, blended learning, flipped classroom and self-directed learning in this module. It’s a collaboration between staff in the School of English, Digital Arts and Humanities, and the Boole Library.
The assignments that I am involved in are:
The annual mini conference that we ask students to organise and present at. I mentor them throughout the process and introduce them to the kinds of digital tools and technologies they may use to disseminate their work and advertise the conference. Some of the students’ responses to the event can be viewed below:
Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: A Reflection
#Textualities16: Keeping Up with the Conference
Textualities 2016 Mini-Conference: An Experience Not to Forget
Textualities ’16: Blogging Back
My Textualities16: A Reflection
The Research Journal that students must maintain throughout the year using WordPress blogs. Some samples can be viewed below:
An in-class assignment of my choice; in 2016 I asked students to participate in a Wikipedia Editathon, the particulars of which can be viewed here. See here for the Storify of the event, and below for samples of student responses to the assignment:
Taking Our New Skills for a Walk
#EditWikiLit: Ask Not What Wikipedia Can do for You. . .