Taking TEI Further: Teaching with TEI
August 20–22, 2014
Julia Flanders, Northeastern University
Syd Bauman, Northeastern University
Location
Snell Library, Room 421
Schedule
Wednesday, 20 August
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 (OpenStreetMap, Google directions)
Thursday, 21 August
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 (slides: HTML, TEI)
→ 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
Short homework assignment: trouble-shooting in the classroom. In the “TEI Teaching” download (ZIP or tarball) 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.
→ Dinner on your own
Friday, 22 August
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 (slides: HTML, TEI)
- Consider the role of output in pedagogy
- Demonstration of CSS and TEI Boilerplate
- Embellished TEI template
→ 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 (slides: HTML, TEI)
- What resources do we have available to us at our institutions?
- What other resources are available?
- What kinds of supporting resources could we develop?
Resources
Materials for hands-on can be downloaded as a ZIP archive or as a tarball.
The resource page has links to all the slide sets (whether used in this workshop or not), interesting web sites we may have shown, and useful TEI links
The WWP Guide to Scholarly Text Encoding.