These are a few of the digital resources I have led collaboartive and
individual efforts on since coming to Ethnic Studies in Fall 2019
- Our Covid 19
Resources Our Way
At the end of March 2020, as the pandemic took hold, UH students
and faculty returned from Spring Break to online classrooms and a
brave new world filled with official resources that did not answer
their needs. A group of students led by Prof. Ethan Caldwell put
together a Google Doc with a dozen or so resources they had found
helpful. I proposed the idea to students in several ES classes, and we
put together a team of fourteen students, many of them ES majors to
take up the challenge of providing the resources we needed. By
the end of the month we had a website that was already reaching
hundreds of students, faculty, and community members. "Our
COVID-19 Resources Our Way" grew across the semester into a site with
direct links to hundreds of resources that was helping hundreds of
students each month.
- Fifty
Years of Oceanic Ethnic Studies: Remembering Our Past, Re-Imagining
Our Future (early development)
At Ethnic Studies, we are celebrating our fiftieth anniversary by
holding a series of events close to our mission and true to our motto,
"Our History Our Way." I am working with Skayu Louis, the ES Grad
Assistant, to build out this website into a record of the events and
as a memorial to Students, faculty, and community who faced a uniquely
challenging school year and pulled through with grace, commitment and
aplomb.
- ES Reading &
Resources
Students and I built an annotated database of Ethnic Studies
readings and media. If we can maintain it, we will open it too
the whole community
- Bomba, a Sound of Resistance
This is student Ariana Diaz's research project for my course
"The Sounds of Ethnic Studies." She describes it thus: "Bomba, a music genre that goes beyond entertainment, rich with history from its beginnings on the sugar plantations of Puerto Rico, through the combination of different instruments, movements, beats, and lyrics, lives the story of the Taino and African people's journey through enslavement as a result of colonialism." It shows the type of hypermedia scholarship students can undertake
in our shared platform, Scalar.
- ES
Gallery
Professor Das Gupta asked me to set up a photo gallery so that she
could have students show agricultural workers support during the
pandemic. She then shared the results with the United Farm
Workers and Alianza Nacional de Campesinas.
- YouTube videos for teaching my ES courses online.
Most of these are post-pandemic and are responding to the
challenges of adapting courses meant to be in-person and hands-on to a
virtual presentation. For an "icebreaker" we do introductions in which
we have to demonstrate a superpower.
Here is mine.
- ES
Community photomosaic
Just for fun, I took all of the ES department, faculty, student, and
SRO Instagram pages I could find -- thousands of photos -- and created a
congratulatory photomosaic for the Class of 2020. Remember to
follow the viewing instructions above the mosaic!
I wish I had all the great projects that students, faculty, community
members, and I collaboratively developed as the Digital Arts &
Humanities Initiative, which I was the director of from its inception in
2012 until the College of Arts and Humanities deleted it in 2019.
You can get an idea of some of the projects by looking at the
Archive.org's Wayback Machine record of DAHI as it existed before it was deleted.
Please be patient, the archive can take a few seconds to load. The
actual site was much faster!
Richard Rath
"We are University of Hawaiʻi students
who are taking ES 360, "Immigration to Hawaiʻi and the U.S." In
this course, we have studied the relationship between farm work,
the food supply chain, and migration. We have learned about the
poor treatment of farmworkers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we
have fresh appreciation of them as essential workers. Our messages
thank and support farmworkers."