Conference Programme 2018

All Panels, Workshops and Keynote will take place in the Digital Humanities Active Learning Space (4th floor, Food Science Building)

 

Day 1, 21st June 2018

9.30-10.15. Welcome and Registration: Tea/Coffee

 

10.15: Conference Opening: Fiona Chambers (School of Education), Orla Murphy (Digital Humanities; DARIAH Ireland National Co-Ordinator)

 

10.30-11.45: Panel 1: Fake News, Digital Literacy, Critical Literacy

Chair: Miranda Corcoran (UCC)

 

Speaker: Virginia Conrick (UCC)

Paper: “Fake News and Digital Literacy: Do we value the truth?”

 

Speaker: Gertrude Cotter (UCC)

Paper: “Digital Humanities and Social Justice Activism, A Higher Education Pedagogy We Need to Think About”

 

 

Tea/Coffee 11.45-12.15

 

12.15-1.45: Workshop

Facilitator: Briony Supple (UCC)

Title: Get some perspective: Utilising real and virtual gallery spaces in SoTL to develop critical thinking and digital literacy.

 

1.45-2.30: Lunch

 

2.30-3.30. Panel 2: Transdisciplinarity and Outreach

 

Chair: Donna Alexander (UCC)

 

Speaker: Vicky Garnett (TCD)

Paper: “Embedding PARTHENOS Training Materials in Digital Humanities courses across Europe”

 

Speaker: Mike Cosgrave (UCC)

Paper: “Personal Research Ecologies; Inter and Transdisciplinary Frameworks”

 

3.30-4.00: Tea/Coffee

 

Keynote: 4.00-5.30

Speaker: Helen Beetham (Independent Researcher and Writer)

Title: Critical/digital: teaching with, of and against technology.

 

Chair: Orla Murphy (UCC)

 

 

Wine Reception 5.30-7. Staff Restaurant. 

 

Conference Dinner 8pm: La Dolce Vita.

 

 

DAY 2: 22nd June 2018

 

9.30-11.30. Panel 3: Developing Digital Competencies and Capacities in Social Policy Educators in Higher Educational Institutions.

Chair: Kathy O’Hare (UCC)

 

Speaker: Eileen Hogan (UCC)

Paper: “An Overview of SPEEDS”

 

Speaker: Becky Jeffers (UCC)

Paper: “The design thinking and technological development of the Spikey Profile Tool for social policy educators”

 

Speaker: Maeve Murphy (Carlow IT)

Paper: “’It’s a learning curve’: Developing digital competency in educators alongside appropriate use of technology for students.”

 

Speaker: Eileen Farrell (Carlow IT)

Paper:  “Does anybody listen to me ? Using Audio feedback as a tool to take the emotion out of feedback for the lecturer and the assignment.”

 

 

11.30-11.45 Tea/Coffee

 

11.45-12.45 Workshop

Facilitator: Shannon Eichelberger  and Eugene Eilcheberger (Wikimedia Ireland)

Title: “Wikipedia skills workshop for researchers and lecturers”

 

12.45-1.45 Lunch 

 

1.45-2.45. Panel 4: Digital Wellbeing, Digital Autonomy

 

Chair: Justin Tonra (NUIG)

 

Speaker: Laura Daly (UCC)

Paper: “Digital Wellbeing: A review of the challenges facing computer-integrated learning”

 

Speaker: Eileen Hogan (UCC) and Rebecca Jeffers (UCC)

Paper: “An Examination of Social Policy Educators digital skills, capacities and attitudes in Ireland”

 

2.45-3.00. Tea/Coffee

 

3.00-5.00pm. panel 5: E-portfolios, Social Media, and Discussion Boards

Chair: Pedro Nilsson-Fernandez (UCC)

 

Speaker: Briony Supple (UCC)

Paper: “Building digital competency for academics: demonstrating impact and evidencing investigation through e-portfolios”

 

Speakers: Craig Neville and Laura Linares (UCC)

Paper: “Give us some Slack”: Creating dialogic, constructivist learning experiences outside the classroom using the social media platform, Slack.”

 

Speaker: Karolyn McDonnell (Carlow IT)

Paper: “Online Discussion Boards as Assessment in Social Care Education”

 

Speaker: Iris Van Vliet and Jasmijn Van Gorp (Utrecht University)

Paper: “The audiovisual research journal: a research and teaching method to enhance digital tool criticism and reflection”

 

Conference Close