In an effort to better understand student learning, particularly deep learning, as it occurs at Vanderbilt, the CFT is producing a special series of podcasts highlighting student projects across a variety of disciplines.

In this episode, we join CFT Assistant Director Nancy Chick, as she talks with Emily Cook, the 2011-12 Dean’s Fellow, about her role assisting with the curatorial development of an exhibit for the library’s interactive touchscreen, located on the first floor of the Central Library.  Emily was given full access to a collection of 120 digitized photographs by photographer Jack Corn, photographs of men, women, and children living in the coal-mining regions of Appalachia during the second half of the 20th century.  Her task was to narrow down the collection of 120 to approximately 50 photographs and to write descriptions and metadata (the location and date) for each.  Listen to Emily talking about her process and what she learned from this project.

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

[MP3, 14 min 30 sec]

Listen to previous “Student Learning on Display” podcasts:

• Episode 33 – Texting While Driving Campaign
• Episode 32 – Art and Portable Media
• Episode 31 – Eliciting Positive Emotions Using Film
• Episode 30 – Spinach-Powered Solar Cells

Tags: Digital Humanities, Student Projects

---

This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 15th, 2012 at 8:30 am and is filed under News, Podcast. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

---