
   Taking TEI Further: Teaching with TEI
   August 20–22, 2014

Julia Flanders, Northeastern University
Syd Bauman, Northeastern University


Location
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Room 421
Snell Library
Northeastern University


Schedule
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Wednesday, 20 August
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* 9:40 Breakfast available (pastries and coffee)
* Session 1, 10:00–11:30: Teaching (with) TEI? Introductions and profile of interests
* Session 2, 11:45–12:30: Discussion (small groups)
  - Are you aiming for individualized or convergent encoding from your students?
  - Is the TEI functioning as an interpretive tool or a production tool? Is encoding about process or product?
  - How much do you want your students to learn about the TEI itself?
  - To what extent are we interested in teaching TEI as an example of something larger?
→ Lunch on your own
* Session 3, 2:00–3:30: Teaching objectives
  - Examine sample syllabi and assignments: Galey, Tomasek, Walsh, Whitacre, Chiodo, Birnbaum, Ullyot
  - What is the role of data modeling in a humanities curriculum? Why teach TEI? What pedagogical outcomes are we looking for?
  - How do we contextualize TEI within the course?
  - How do we evaluate and grade work of this kind? Are we grading the process or the product?
  - How does teaching TEI fit in with our institutional and departmental agendas? How does this affect assessment? What role does TEI play in our students' academic and professional development?
* Session 4, 3:45–5:30: Syllabus development (small groups)
→ Group dinner (voluntary) at Pho and I, Huntington Avenue

Thursday, 21 August
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9:40 Breakfast available (pastries and coffee)
* Session 5, 10:00–11:30: Group reporting from session 4
* Session 6, 11:45–1:00: The TEI teaching environment
→ Lunch on your own
* Session 7, 2:30–4:00: Setting up a TEI teaching schema (slides: HTML, TEI)
  - The role of schemas and constraint
  - Overview of TEI customization
  - Demonstration of Roma
* Session 8, 4:15–5:30: Small group hands-on followed by discussion
  - Develop a template for your group course assignment
  - Develop a customization to support the template
  - Concluding discussion of results
→ Dinner on your own
                       
Short homework assignment: trouble-shooting in the classroom.
    In the “TEI Teaching” download, find the file content/broken_mooses.xml,
    and create a repaired version of it as content/mooses.xml. Note that
    there are both well-formedness and validity problems.

Friday, 22 August
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9:40 Breakfast available (pastries and coffee)
* Session 9, 10:00–11:15: Small group hands-on followed by discussion
  - Do the assignment you created
  - What worked? What was difficult? What support do we need to provide?
  - Review the trouble-shooting exercise
* Session 10, 11:30–1:00: Output, display, and pedagogy
  - Consider the role of output in pedagogy
  - Demonstration of CSS and TEI Boilerplate
→ Lunch on your own
* Session 11, 2:30–4:00: Individual and group hands-on
  - Experiment with display tools
  - Work on individual assignments and syllabi
* Session 12, 4:00–5:00: Final questions and discussion
  - What resources do we have available to us at our institutions?
  - What other resources are available?
  - What kinds of supporting resources could we develop?

Instructor contact information
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 Julia  j.flanders@neu.edu
 Syd    s.bauman@neu.edu
