HDIVE (Humanities Digital Innovation and Virtual Education) is a site dedicated to building a community practice for using innovative digital tools in the humanities.
The tutorials featured on this site have been written by higher education professionals who have extensive experience in online and hybrid teaching and who have worked to develop effective and engaging ways to use digital tools to help students learn.
In each tutorial, you will find a synopsis, a set of objectives for what the author would like you to learn from the post, content and instructions for how to use a digital tool or set up an online assignment, a description of the benefits and challenges of the approach covered, and tools for evaluating you use of the digital tool and/or rubrics for assessing student work.
Latest Tutorials
Using Zoom to set up Recurring and Instant Meetings
Synopsis In this post, I will discuss how to set up variety of different meeting options on Zoom video conferencing for both scheduled class meetings and instant meetings or office hours with students. This tutorial will allow you to develop a singular link that can be used throughout the semester so your students will easily…
Clio in the Classroom Geomapping Assignment
In this post, I will explore the crowdsourced public history application The Clio, a geomapping tool used to document historic cites and cultural institutions. The Clio is a collaborative history based educational mobile app and website that maps and documents thousands of historical and cultural sites and institutions across the United States.
Using Flipgrid for Online Discussions in the Virtual Humanities Classroom
Synopsis “Flipgrid is a free video discussion platform from Microsoft that helps educators see and hear from every student in class and foster a fun and supportive social learning environment. In Flipgrid, educators post discussion prompts and students respond with short videos, whether they are learning in class or at home.” To learn the basics…
Setting Up a Course in an LMS to Facilitate On-line/Hybrid Instruction
This blog post provides a basic introduction and tips on how to organize a course site on an LMS to facilitate on-line/hybrid instruction. The primary goal of the of set up described here is to reduce the amount of time your students spend trying to find things and figure out what you want them…
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