This collection of tweets from THATCamp Piedmont 2016 is a great way to relive the day!

THATCamp Piedmont 2016

Thanks to all participants, planners, & volunteers for making THATCamp Piedmont 2016 such an energizing day of play and co-learning!

Registration & welcome desk.

THATCamp Piedmont 2016 t-shirts!

THATCamp Piedmont 2016 signage.

Voting on session proposals.

Welcome & scheduling session.

Mary Foskett (Humanities Institute Director) & Chelcie Rowell (ZSR Library’s Digital Initiatives Librarian) welcome everyone to THATCamp Piedmont 2016.

Day-of scheduling begins!

Chelcie solicits impromptu session proposals.

Voting on impromptu session proposals.

Voting on impromptu session proposals.

The day’s schedule takes shape!

Chelcie applies the finishing touches to the day’s schedule.

Chelcie leads a session on lightweight tools for digitally inflected assignments.

THATCampers learn about lightweight tools for digitally inflected assignments.

THATCampers discuss teaching with “medium-sized data.”

Photos by Susan Sharpless Smith, also available in the THATCamp Piedmont 2016 album on Z. Smith Reynolds Library’s Flickr account.

Skeletal notes on facilitating online discussion.

Notes for the Omeka bootcamp sessions led by Sharon Leon are courtesy of Sylvia Miller.

What lightweight digital tools can be incorporated into digitally inflected assignments in humanities courses? How can assignments ask students both to create using these tools and critique the affordances & constraints of these tools? Let’s roll up our sleeves and play with some of the following tools and imagine their use in a range of humanities courses:

• Timeline JS for creating beautiful, interactive timelines.
• StoryMap for telling stories with a spatial dimension.
• SoundCite for inline audio citation.
• Hypothesis, which makes it possible to annotate, critique, and takes notes on top of writing on the web.

Let’s play! Follow + share + contribute to our shared collaborative session notes.

Crowd by Maia Valenzuela on Flicker used under a CC BY 2.0 license.

We’re thrilled to welcome so many people to Wake Forest for THATCamp Piedmont 2016! Pre-registration has now closed. You may still register in person on the morning of the event, but meals will not be included. We hope to see you there!

Who? Anyone with energy and interest in the humanities or technology should attend! Hosted by the Wake Forest University Humanities Institute and Z. Smith Reynolds Library.

What? An unconference focused on the humanities and technology! THATCamp Piedmont 2016 will be an informal, one-day gathering to share ideas, insights, resources, questions, problems, tools, methods, and projects about digitally inflected humanities research and pedagogy.

When? Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Where? The Reynolda Campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC.

How? Participants create the program on the first day, rather than a planning committee creating the program beforehand. We won’t deliver presentations — instead, all participants in an unconference are expected to talk and work with fellow participants in every session. An unconference is to a conference what a seminar is to a lecture; going to an unconference is like being a member of an improv troupe, whereas going to a conference is (mostly) like being a member of an audience.

Why? To provide an open, inexpensive meeting where humanists and technologists of all skill levels learn and build together in sessions proposed on the spot.