MLA Commons | Cathy Davidson | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/cathyd/activity/ Activity feed for Cathy Davidson. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:40:55 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 80b61cd0e6b1ed5f5976b79eb8534bc3 Cathy Davidson deposited "How To Upload A File": Instructions from 1994 in the group Hybrid Pedagogy https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1840664/ Mon, 10 Apr 2023 04:00:11 -0400 This is an email I sent a friend on May 24, 1994, to help them upload a file in Word Perfect. Using Pine. and Raphael and Kermit. Really.

]]> 0 bf407d84e748d1fb9583e294d2be0e1d Cathy Davidson deposited "How To Upload A File": Instructions from 1994 in the group Digital Pedagogy https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1840662/ Mon, 10 Apr 2023 04:00:01 -0400 This is an email I sent a friend on May 24, 1994, to help them upload a file in Word Perfect. Using Pine. and Raphael and Kermit. Really.

]]> 0 c5e38fa9d7e6da551e3b721389b10e07 Cathy Davidson deposited "How To Upload A File": Instructions from 1994 https://hastac.hcommons.org/activity/p/1840585/ Sun, 09 Apr 2023 14:29:29 -0400 This is an email I sent a friend on May 24, 1994, to help them upload a file in Word Perfect. Using Pine. and Raphael and Kermit. Really.

]]> 0 16c94a3c6d55e5b663c84d9e31b72ac0 Cathy Davidson posted an update: I'm slowly moving over to Mastodon: @CathyD@hcommons.social […] https://hastac.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826899/ Sat, 17 Dec 2022 15:34:11 -0500 I’m slowly moving over to Mastodon: @CathyD@hcommons.social I used to love TikTok but I follow mostly dancers and the tragic news of Steven tWitch Boss’s suicide means my TikTok is full of sorrow now and Twitter is all Elno all the time. No thanks! Follow me on hcommons@social and let’s see what we can get started!

]]> 0 4997a3aeecb23f89b9b78581fee457a7 Cathy Davidson deposited The HASTAC Vision: A 2004 "White Paper" in the group Digital Pedagogy https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1820963/ Wed, 09 Nov 2022 04:00:00 -0500 This white paper was written early after HASTAC’s founding (in 2002-03) and early convening at NSF as part of the “collaboratory” initiative of “centers without walls” to support researchers across institutions and disciplines. This is an early defining document of HASTAC. The Summary begins: “HASTAC (“Haystack”) is a consortium of hum…[Read more]

]]> 0 a1b9c0c2d44ee9abd077fc4c47b01715 Cathy Davidson deposited The HASTAC Vision: A 2004 "White Paper" https://hastac.hcommons.org/activity/p/1820718/ Tue, 08 Nov 2022 11:50:36 -0500 This white paper was written early after HASTAC’s founding (in 2002-03) and early convening at NSF as part of the “collaboratory” initiative of “centers without walls” to support researchers across institutions and disciplines. This is an early defining document of HASTAC. The Summary begins: “HASTAC (“Haystack”) is a consortium of hum…[Read more]

]]> 0 2819d1c57705e5cdbec11e69ea2499a0 Cathy Davidson's profile was updated https://hastac.hcommons.org/activity/p/1817336/ Wed, 12 Oct 2022 19:52:55 -0400 0 ecd4a745e3b8d279c8d2c307fa6aeae8 Cathy Davidson's profile was updated https://hastac.hcommons.org/activity/p/1817126/ Mon, 10 Oct 2022 15:05:34 -0400 0 83b40eb19a0c42ee9f733bee89820101 Cathy Davidson's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1815926/ Fri, 30 Sep 2022 10:48:43 -0400 0 0461252cc0c0fcc84d4c6f1ae3116e72 Cathy Davidson changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792077/ Tue, 30 Aug 2022 16:13:11 -0400 0 62010be89ea989f40240d61df4d5547d Cathy Davidson changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792076/ Tue, 30 Aug 2022 16:12:31 -0400 0 decdcd849381d3d6ee29b818921eac7c Cathy Davidson's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792073/ Tue, 30 Aug 2022 16:09:14 -0400 0 eedd823c82a217be3988c5da081282af Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, HASTAC.org Migrates to HASTAC Commons, on the site Technology, Networks, and Sciences https://technology-networks-sciences.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=7 Tue, 29 Mar 2022 08:14:00 -0400 A Message from Cathy Davidson and Jacqueline Wernimont 
(From the HASTAC Newsletter, March 28, 2022)
Dear HASTAC Friends,
 
Spring is here! Or at least we’re hoping you are all experiencing the promises of spr […]

]]> ebabda404e15d8d84854aa2748eb4cc8 Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, How Does Your Grad Dept Prepare Students to Teach? An Open, Crowdsourced @HASTAC Project, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=73 Mon, 01 Nov 2021 08:07:00 -0400 You’re invited to contribute!  In 2019, we crowdsourced a document and collected  twenty-nine pages of information on “Graduate Programs Requiring Instruction In Teaching (inc For-Credit Courses)”  .  The doc […]

]]> 171a53ea6df804e1397d7c44a8ebf510 Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, Announcing Upddated Edition of The New Education (Coming Spring 2022), on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=78 Wed, 29 Sep 2021 09:34:00 -0400 I’m so pleased to announce that Basic Books is publishing a new, updated version of “The New Education” (2017), in paper, with a new Introduction.  The new version–with its bold new cover–also includes an […]

]]> ad1f89c9b1e02b365e4c66606d8ff893 Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, 6th COMPUTATIONAL ARCHIVAL SCIENCE (CAS) WORKSHOP, on the site Technology, Networks, and Sciences https://technology-networks-sciences.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=16 Mon, 26 Jul 2021 07:50:00 -0400 6th COMPUTATIONAL ARCHIVAL SCIENCE (CAS) WORKSHOP
See: https://ai-collaboratory.net/cas/cas-workshops/2021-6th-cas-workshop [ai-collaboratory.net]
Dec 15-18 (workshop date TBD), 2021, Atlanta, Orlando FL (now […]

]]> a0013b518c7cdfca54ddd3ba566ad931 Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, A Tip to Ward off Zoombification (And Get You Through to End of Term), on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=102 Sat, 17 Apr 2021 06:56:00 -0400 Feeling not-yet-at-the-finish-line exhaustion? Zoomed out?  Facing Zoombification, your own and your students?  Here’s something our TLH team did yesterday in the middle of an hour-long conference presentation o […]

]]> 8be76d06debf77f1c1fe0fe70029ca70 Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, "I Wake Up Counting": A Free Online Publication of Syllabi and Activities from our Spring 2020 Course, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=109 Tue, 16 Mar 2021 11:52:00 -0400 “FOREWORD” to I WAKE UP COUNTING
Genera Editor, Tatiana Ades
A Manifold Publication   https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/i-wake-up-counting
It is a great pleasure to write this Foreword to I Wake Up Counting: A […]

]]> d5969df569b5e532eda36142687b560e Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, Memorial Tribute to Printer-Mentor-Role Model, Michael Josefowicz, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=122 Sun, 24 Jan 2021 07:38:00 -0500 Last night I learned, accidentally, from a random Facebook post by yet another person who admired him, that
MIchael Josefowicz has died. I met him only a few times and, in this year of much loss, I’m finding […]

]]> 1a09abc5aa4832ce653ff8fe4aa650e5 Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, Ten Ways to Save the End of Term--for You and Your Students, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=145 Thu, 03 Dec 2020 08:25:00 -0500 Please note: I’m bringing this thead over unedited from Twitter for those who aren’t on that tool.  The abbreviations etc are for the word count of Twitter. (You might also want to read a prior blog, that has had […]

]]> 4c71ce2780528db522e5d9eef002542c Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, So How Are You Planning to Start Your Class Tomorrow?, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=152 Tue, 03 Nov 2020 16:07:00 -0500 Today (Nov 3, election day) in our Futures Initiative meeting we talked about what we’ll do in class the day after the election. 
Several of the FI Fellows are graduate students who are also teachers.  The e […]

]]> 4f5b063c1471fb980712de4cdc799b71 Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, Cameras Optional, Please! Remembering Student Lives As We Plan Our Online Syllabus, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=238 Wed, 22 Jul 2020 09:24:00 -0400 As I prepare for my day of Zoom, WebEx, and MicroSoft Office meetings, a guy stands outside my bathroom window. My meeting starts at 9:30. It is 9:00 now. So much for that bath–or even a quick shower ahead of my […]

]]> d70d4b4174186c6de7a520cd5417bd72 Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, "Why are so many of your @CUNY colleagues dying?", on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=243 Wed, 24 Jun 2020 08:21:00 -0400 “Why are so many of your @CUNY colleagues dying?”
For those not on Twitter, I have cut-and-pasted this Twitter thread as a blog.
1-“Why are so many of your @CUNY colleagues dying?” This is the question I’m being […]

]]> 1e8c42aad17d2f6727a99ada452a7800 Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, The Announcement I Wish I Would Hear from a College President, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media https://humanities-arts-media.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=160 Wed, 27 May 2020 11:25:00 -0400 Here is the brave announcement I wish I would read in the New York Times or the Chronicle of Higher Education:  a college or university president fearlessly announcing that . . . no decision has yet been made.  A […]

]]> 7ad4b99411c414b65c5c2ab8ffb81967 Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, "Learning Outcomes" in a Time of COVID: What Happens When Students Say What They Aspire To?, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=314 Fri, 03 Apr 2020 08:16:00 -0400 What happens if we give up the idea that our course should begin with a prescriptive list of “learning outcomes” and offer students the chance to express their own?  Even if you are at an institution that […]

]]> 335a0090511451cc38ded5531be46962 Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, Two IHE Articles on Teaching in a Pandemic: Community and Assessment, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=341 Mon, 23 Mar 2020 07:28:00 -0400 Here are two compassionate, useful articles about teaching in a pandemic. Both were coauthored with Christina Katopodis, I’ve (an extraordinary English doctoral student, Futures Initiative Fellow, and […]

]]> b9ad91bed90682dd89d1bec67e1f08d8 Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, The Inspiring "Adjusted Syllabus" by UNC Prof Brandon Bayne, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=343 Fri, 20 Mar 2020 08:44:00 -0400 Check out this inspiring syllabus by Prof Brandon Bayne of the University of North Carolina!

 
 
Adjusted Syllabus
Spring 2020
Brandon Bayne
UNC – Chapel Hill
 
Principles
1.    Nobody signed up for this. […]

]]> 1e5b04a5b55c954fe84ed7dc2923b796 Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, Transforming on the Fly: One Model for Easy Synchronous Community in an Online Class, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=349 Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:11:00 -0400 Here is how we switched up what we are doing in class tomorrow.  Not every student can be on video (in fact, I’ve not had any luck getting on), so we have divided up our two-hour class, so the first hour is […]

]]> 246e88b3f2180f673eb92aca7f40ea78 Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, Here's How To Make a (free, safe) Group On HASTAC.org, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=369 Mon, 09 Mar 2020 17:49:00 -0400 Any HASTAC Member Can Create A Course Group on HASTAC
 
Cathy Davidson
If you are registered as a HASTAC member, you can begin to create a Group for your class right now.  If you are not a member, you can fill o […]

]]> 3c3a296e744c2fd046a45cf78075066c Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, Teaching and Learning from Mitt Romney's Act of Courage Over Party, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=406 Thu, 06 Feb 2020 08:05:00 -0500 I hope all over America people today are publicly admiring Mitt Romney for speaking out even as the right wing is vilifying him. What does it mean that telling the truth and refusing to be governed by lies makes […]

]]> 5408e6613219cd2c77ba22a7c3edb5dd Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, Inspiring Book: The Ocean in the School: Pacific Islander Students Transforming Their University, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=415 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 17:11:00 -0500 This weekend I read a fascinating book that I want to recommend a book to anyone in higher education thinking about how we can make our institutions truly engaged with all of the different students on our […]

]]> 27fe959b73f2bfcb28f8678293b4c2ce Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, Theory Into Practice and the Interdisciplinary Work of Julie Thompson Klein, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=419 Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:27:00 -0500 Along with Professor Bruce Janz, I am honored to be part of a special volume of Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, “Engaging and Extending the Work of Julie Thompson Klein.”  Our article for this volume is […]

]]> 22004a63e2edd4ed36ea480ba0b23b6f Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, Don't Let The NYT Fool You! College is Worth It, Necessary, and the Only Major Tool We Have for Combatting Income Inequality, on the site Social and Political Issues https://social-political-issues.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=97 Sat, 28 Dec 2019 12:16:00 -0500 The New York Times today has an article on the “5 Takeaways from the Year in Education.”  While I agree with the other four “trends,” I want to respond and offer a rebuttal to #3:  “Declining Faith in Higher […]

]]> 43bda2ba3490c07166298cf51e9e3faf Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, Navigating Racism: The Profound (and Useful) "Navigational Log" of Prof Molly Appel of Nevada State College, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=455 Fri, 29 Nov 2019 11:32:00 -0500 Today, in our Progressive Pedagogy Group on hastac.org, we recognize the superb classroom and institutional innovations of Professor Molly Appel, of Nevada State College, who teaches Composition, Human Rights and […]

]]> aa65802dd91d8b70ac2b82f31720779e Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, “The People In Our Classrooms Who Are Students”: Learning the Hardest Lessons of Higher Ed Today, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=457 Sun, 24 Nov 2019 13:14:00 -0500 [This blog has been edited substantially, thanks to excellent feedback from academic twitter!  Thank you all!]
My colleague Kandice Chuh uses the phrase “the people in our classrooms who are students” to remi […]

]]> 7438d93010fd997edeea164f17fb7019 Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, Learning from Prof Walter Greason's Real-Time Video and Social Media Classroom Innovations, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=473 Sun, 17 Nov 2019 11:09:00 -0500 Today, in our Progressive Pedagogy Group on hastac.org, we recognize the superb classroom and institutional innovations of Professor Walter D. Greason, Associate Professor and Dean Emeritus at Monmouth […]

]]> 15eecb59acff9a99a1a24204de4344de Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, Recognizing Leadership and Group Classroom Methods of Prof Virginia Yonkers, Univ at Albany, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=475 Fri, 15 Nov 2019 13:01:00 -0500 In this Progressive Pedagogy Group on hastgac.org, we recognize superb, innovative professors and their classroom innovations. Today, we feature Professor Virginia Yonkers at the University of Albany who tells us […]

]]> 870ddfb67e9202056bd1bcddac2425c5 Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, Resources on Progressive Pedagogy, Active Learning, Student-Centered Learning, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=494 Sat, 05 Oct 2019 10:11:00 -0400  
PROGRESSIVE PEDAGOGY GROUP   https://www.hastac.org/groups/progressive-pedagogy-group
Anyone who wants to learn more about active learning, progressive pedagogy, radical pedagogy, student-centered le […]

]]> 35aa948bd701498c2df42ee529aab9d0 Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, Samuel Delany On Importance of "Everyone Raising Their Hand", on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=496 Sat, 05 Oct 2019 09:59:00 -0400  “Don’t you realize that every time you don’t answer a question, you’re learning something? You’re learning how to make do with what you got, and you’re learning how not to ask for a raise…you’re learning how to […]

]]> 5ab9e311741f9d7487490e41d9fb7761 Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, Here's How a Syllabus Evolves! Intro to Engaged Teaching and Learning, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=498 Fri, 04 Oct 2019 10:47:00 -0400 Introduction to Engaged Teaching and Transformative Learning in the Humanities and Social Sciences
EVOLVING SYLLABUS
Professors Cathy N. Davidson (The Graduate Center, English and the Futures Initiative) and […]

]]> da5c49b5bc87266926d55fa4c1b78cfa Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, How To Overcome Resistance To Active Learning (Your Own, Your Students', Your Institutions'), on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=504 Sun, 25 Aug 2019 11:14:00 -0400 How To Overcome Resistance To Active Learning (Your Own, Your Students’, Your Institutions’)
This is an omnibus blog based on Aug 23 tweets and exchanges, reblogged here for user convenience and for future […]

]]> 131096b87b87a81b24960455e06dfba6 Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, How To Remake (i.e. Save) the History Major in 7 Steps, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media https://humanities-arts-media.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=221 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 08:50:00 -0400 People often ask me how I might, for example, remake a college history major.  Given the drastic decline in students majoring in or even taking history courses, it’s time to think about remaking history, not to […]

]]> 99566f5bb4057b9a9f14a8612785a880 Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, Three Ways to Transform Your Lecture Course: Dean Anne Balsamo’s “TechnoCulture”, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=521 Thu, 23 May 2019 10:13:00 -0400 In this “Progressive Pedagogy Group,” we typically advocate the most engaged, active, student-led forms of learning. However, in the modern academy, most of us are faced with teaching a large lecture course. Sure […]

]]> 6babbd497b1aab34dd2ae447b826988f Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, Farewell #HASTAC2019, Hello #HASTAC2020 and #HASTAC2022, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=529 Wed, 22 May 2019 15:11:00 -0400 Thank you, #HASTAC2019
Some academic conferences are simply professional trade shows by another name.
Some are gatherings of the minds.
Occasionally–once or twice in an academic lifespan–one comes along that […]

]]> 9d6ea04481c5c584e91f864eb65d957c Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, How a University Can Sell Its Soul: HASTAC's Stanford Origins and the University's Current Decision on Stanford University Press, on the site Educational and Cultural Institutions https://educational-cultural-institutions.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=133 Sun, 28 Apr 2019 11:04:00 -0400 “Austerity” When You Are Wealthier Than Just About Anyone
In the wake of the decision by the President and Provost of Stanford University to either (depending on which account you read and when) kill its sch […]

]]> 2b6b14ba24e86e947cb156c03dc2ec49 Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, Here's the REAL Scandal of Higher Education, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=595 Wed, 03 Apr 2019 12:01:00 -0400  While …the national news media went berserk around B-list celebrities paying off admissions counselors to get their offspring into elite universities, a real scandal went unnoticed…
While . . .  New York c […]

]]> 119ce17d048fa55f112bb2e58b13bfcd Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, How To Transform a "Talking Heads" Conference Panel Into Active Learning, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=602 Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:46:00 -0400 On April 9, from 330-6pm, we will be hosting live and livestreamed symposium, “Race and Its Futures.”  Rather than a “talking heads” panel, we are going to practice what we preach and turn the conference venue […]

]]> fbedd51820831f4f578461092ddae794 Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, Seven Tips For Creating Great Classroom Blogs, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=609 Tue, 12 Mar 2019 12:08:00 -0400 One thing we know from the research of Stanford Professor Emerita Andrea Lunsford is that students write better when there is a real audience for their writing, not just a prof for whom they are writing for grade. […]

]]> 0e69804b643261c730d75b71290dd010 Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, Racquel Gates Interview on Reality Tv, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=633 Sat, 23 Feb 2019 10:22:00 -0500 515d15aaff7d2c7f5dc2a922a09b9e7f Cathy Davidson wrote a new post, Teaching History? Or Bringing Out Every Student's Inner Historian? A Midterm Exam Alternative, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=634 Thu, 21 Feb 2019 08:53:00 -0500 Yesterday in class, a graduate student who teaches history as an adjunct professor–in short, way overworked, way underpaid–said she was trying to include progressive pedagogy in her class but it was simply too […]

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