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Freedman Fellows Frequently Asked Questions
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PowerPoint presentation or full media CD-ROMs and interactive DVDs. You will not only walk away with a completed project, but with the skills
to do it again.
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What is the Freedman Fellows Program?
As originally conceived, the Freedman Fellows Program exists to assist faculty in developing curricula and assignments that combine both
multimedia and information competencies and research skills that involve the Freedman Center in the production activities, and the outcomes
of the newly developed curricula (with specific objectives that encourage students to use the Freedman Center) that promote experimentation
with new teaching and learning strategies that demonstrate innovation and creativity that focus on enhancing student engagement in learning
and that indicate careful planning and feasibility. Additionally, in 2007 the Freedman family provided the Freedman Center and Case Western
Reserve University and endowed fund of $250,000 to support future Freedman Fellows Programs. Included with the initial phase of this gift
was support specifically for a combined effort with the Baker Nord Center for the Humanities to explore how the Freedman Fellows Program
can also encourage the use of new technologies in the research that the faculty does on campus—specifically, providing immersive instruction
in the tools that would benefit their scholarly pursuits. This emphasis slightly expands the focus of the Freedman Fellows Program from active
participation in the instruction that occurs on campus to active participation in the research and discovery that happens on campus.
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When is the Freedman Fellows Program?
The awards will be announced no later than Tuesday, April 9th. The program continues through the year with several events to be scheduled
throughout the year. Details will be posted on this site.
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Who can apply?
Full time faculty at Case Western Reserve University. If a research group is interested, A faculty member who is leading the group may apply.
Former Freedman Fellows can apply, though special consideration is given to first-time applicants to engage as many new faculty as possible.
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Can I meet with someone to discuss this?
Yes. If you have questions or concerns, please email roger.zender@case.edu or telephone Roger at 216-368-5637. It is strongly encouraged
that all applicants schedule a meeting to discuss potential proposals.
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What is the Freedman Fellows award amount?
$3,000.
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How many Fellows will there be?
There will be up to four (4) awards in 2013. However, there is no guarantee that four awards will be given if four proposals do not meet the
criteria established for this program.
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What is Digital Scholarship?
To quote Christine L. Borgman, "Scholars in all fields are taking advantage of the wealth of online information, tools, and services to ask new
questions, create new kinds of scholarly products, and reach new audiences." (from Scholarship in the Digital Age: AZ 195 .B67 2007). Or,
perhaps, from a Digital Humanities perspective: "Digital humanities is not a unified field but an array of convergent practices that explore a
universe in which print is no longer the exclusive or the normative medium in which knowledge is produced and/or disseminated." (Digital
Humanities Manifesto)
For instance, a scholar who is interested in the works of Gertrude Stein might use several software applications to analyse Stein texts for word
choice, word recurrence, patterns of sentence structures, patterns of phrases, patterns of word relationships, and so on. This sort of analysis
has the potential for providing important insights into the meaning of Stein texts, as well as excavating artistic approaches to the creation of the
texts that might change understanding of certain texts. This exact process was used by Tanya Clement at the University of Maryland in her
work with Stein's novel, "The Making of Americans," a work largely dismissed as a failed experiment. This example, however, is only one of
many possible examples. Astronomers model the movement of objects in space, dental faculty model the physiology and three-dimensionality
of the human face, engineering faculty model the flow of wind and water, geology faculty model planetary geodynamics, epidemiologists look at
the occurrence of lead-base paint on houses across geographic areas, and religion faculty model the interior of temples and the process of
religious iconography and systems.
In short, digital scholarship is the practice of pursuing scholarly activities whose outcome is transformed by the very nature of the method by
which it is carried out (using digital tools) or scholarly activities that utilize digital tools or technologies to change the methods by which a corpus
of data can be engaged by other researchers or a general audience. Digital scholarship also includes the use of tools and environments that
support digital scholarly activities, supporting and advocating for research uses or experimental development of tools and projects, and support
the digital dissemination of outputs.
A suggestion is to also review previous Fellows work.
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What do you mean by corpus of data?
A grouping of data on which you propose to perform your scholarly research or teaching activities. This ideally will be an intellectual grouping or
arrangement of materials by some criteria relevant to the project you intend to carry out. A corpus of data can include actual data sets (spss,
survey results, gps and arc gis files), digital texts, digital images, databases, and more.
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