DPLA Outreach & Assessment Working Group launches assessment workshop series this summer
On the heels of our highly successful reparative description workshop series, brought to you by the Metadata and Rights Statements working groups, the Outreach & Assessment Working Group is proud to announce Resourcefully Assessing: Critical Approaches to Assessment, an event series focused on various assessment frameworks and tools used in education, digital collections, and cultural heritage work.
This series will cover topics ranging from assessing quality in Open Education Resources (OERs), to measuring use and re-use of digital objects, to assessing and telling stories impact of outreach efforts themselves.
Join any or all of these sessions to learn more from invited OER design experts, IMLS-funded researchers, and the DPLA community at large.
Quality Indicators for Open Educational Resources (OER)
Thursday, June 13, 2024, at 1p ET
Join us for our first event in the Resourcefully Assessing: Critical Approaches to Assessment Series, hosted by the Outreach & Assessment working group. This series will explore a variety of assessment strategies for different resource and collection types. In this coffee chat, Joanna Schimizzi will discuss quality indicators for Open Educational Resources (OER). We’ll share example resources, rubrics, and templates that support you in finding and evaluating OER, with a focus on primary source sets. Part of the conversation will of course focus on student needs and on the opportunity to customize and localize resources to build robust sets of work. Please also view the recording of Joanna’s previous DPLA webinar, “Teaching and Learning with DPLA Resources.”
Presenters:
- Joanna Schimizzi is a Biology teacher in North Carolina and a Professional Learning Specialist with ISKME. While getting her Master’s in Education from Northeastern University, she became extremely interested in classroom culture and student identity. This led her to work with ISKME and OER Commons to support educators in finding Open Educational Resources (OER) so that resources can be modified and remixed to include a wider variety of perspectives and experiences. Joanna is mom to two boys and lives with her husband in a little town outside of Charlotte, NC.
Wikimedia Metrics and Tools
Thursday, July 18, 2024, at 1p ET
Please join the DPLA Wikimedia Working Group (WWG) for an overview of metrics and tracking tools across Wikimedia Platforms. Together we will look at metrics and tools from across Wikimedia while offering advice for institutions currently involved in, or looking to get involved in the DPLA Wikimedia Pipeline, and related Wikipedia work and editing. The presentation will cover pipeline metrics, the Wikimedia events dashboard and using it for event/edit tracking, article assessment tools, and tools on Wikimedia Commons. Additionally, we will briefly discuss new WMF tools that are being developed. Attendees will hear from individuals and institutions with first hand experience with these tools, and will offer insight and advice on how to best utilize them for your personal or institutional editing and content goals. We will close the session with time for Q&A and discussion.
Presenters:
- Jamie Flood, Senior Wikipedian and Outreach Specialist, USDA National Agricultural Library
- Giovanna Fontenelle, Program Officer, Culture & Heritage, Wikimedia Foundation
- Evan Robb, Digital Repository Librarian, Northwest Digital Heritage, Washington State Library
D-CRAFT Toolkit — assessing use & reuse of digital collections
Thursday, August 8, 2024, at 1p ET
Join us to learn more about D-CRAFT (Digital Content Reuse Assessment Framework Toolkit)! Anyone working with digital collections at galleries, libraries, archives, museums, or repositories may find this session useful.
Three members of the D-CRAFT project team will share project history and introduce the toolkit.
Presenters:
- Ranti Junus, Systems Librarian, Electronic Resources, Michigan State University
- Ayla Stein Kenfield, Repository Services Librarian & Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Santi Thompson, Eva Digital Research Endowed Library Professor, University of Houston