Pedagogy as Poesis? NINES, Omeka, & Exhibit Builders I’ve been
thinking a bit about some of the large claims trickling out of
this year’s MLA digital humanities panels–particularly one about
how doing digital humanities means making something. Whether or
not that definition holds (and whether or not making something
demands a sophisticated knowledge of coding), I can’t help but
think about how that applies to pedagogy. Deidre’s really
thought-provoking post, “Poems to Remember (but how?)” led us to
discuss how we might manifest and visualize the reading and
note-taking experience. That is, reading is remaking a text with
your mind, with a pen, and perhaps with a word processor or a
wiki. There are also some tools such as the NINES Collex where
users can construct collections of materials from a patchwork or
mash-up of various primary and secondary texts. Omeka’s exhibit
builder can be used in this way as well, though users need to
bring their own texts, images, and so forth into the site,
rather than accessin