Showing posts with label symposium. Show all posts
Showing posts with label symposium. Show all posts

Thursday 25 October 2018

Digital Humanities: Introduction

Basic Introduction: Digital Humanities

The Dept. of English, KSKV Kutch University, Bhuj (Gujarat - India) organised one day symposium on the Future of English Studies (on 19th oct 2018). There were four talks on various topics like Comparative Literary studies (Prof. Kamal H Mehta), Literary Theory and Criticism (Prof. Sanjay Mukherjee), Interdisciplinarity and English Studies (Prof. Ravesinh B Zala) and Digital Humanities (Prof. Dilip P. Barad).


This audio track is raw recording of the talk on Digital Humanities.
In an elementary introduction to Digital Humanities, the speaker talks about:
1) Nomenclature of Digital Humanities
2) Function of Digital Humanities
3) Nature and Scope of DH
4) Necessities for the study of DH
5) Brief History
6) Research Questions which DH attempts to explore.







Saturday 23 November 2013

Remedy for the Challenge of Continuous Assessment in Large Classes


This is the presentation for the National Symposium at Charotar University of Science and Technology CHARUSAT (Gujarat - India) organised by Indukaka Ipcowala Institute of Management (I2IM) on Technology in ELT Challenges and Remedies on 23 November, 2013.

It discusses importance of ICT in testing and evaluation / assessment. It refers to Ken Robinson and Sugata Mitra as well as applications like Moodle, Hotpotatotes, ProProfs, Zoho Quiz, Testmoz etc and then narrows down on Google Docs / forms for online testing and Flubaroo script for auto grading. In live demo, it demonstrates benefits of Google Forms and Flubaroo for online testing and continuous assessment.