1. American Studies at the Digital Crossroads

2.  Digital Scholarship and Publication  Professionalization and Formal Training  Scholarship in the Cultural Disciplines and the Digital Conversation-to-Date: Three Threads American Studies at the Digital Crossroads

3. KEYWORDS Online Collaborative in design and execution –Network of 64 scholars –Dialogue across analytical frameworks Keywords in American Studies and cultural studies: as the vocabulary changes, so should the means through which we track their usage and the knowledge projects they enable. “Keywords” themselves are reflective of new media and digital environments: metadata, search terms, and tags. Translation into a new medium of the blank pages at the back of Raymond Williams’s Keywords

4. KEYWORDS Online  The main website: keywords.nyupress.org  Our blog: depts.washington.edu/forums  Our wiki: depts.washington.edu/keywords/wiki Our Three Locations

5. keywords_blog hosts discussion around keyword-related events

6. keywords_wiki targets classes and working groups

7. keywords_website … keywords from the book updates to all three sites—and new features … … student-produced keywords from the wiki … and resources for instructors: syllabi assignments instructor chat

8. touring the collaboratory

11. Synthetic essays that track and cohesively narrate keyword usage across course texts. + Final Products (1)

12. touring the collaboratory Multi-layered essays that parse keyword-usage by course texts and offer deep content by linking across the wiki and other online resources + Final Products (2)

13. touring the collaboratory Archive of course texts paired with student analysis tuned to multiple meanings of course keyword(s) + Final Products (3)

14. wikis in the classroom 360° Visibility Different Modalities of Course Dialogue Pushing the Classroom beyond Class Walls Direct Engagement with Keyword-Formation Critical Awareness of Public Knowledge New Kinds of Collaboration and Knowledge Production

15. ad-hoc grad student survey 50 respondents: Institutions: UW, Fordham, Brown, UT Austin, Michigan, Florida State, Duke, George Mason, MIT, Case Western, SMU (Inter)disciplines: English, Rhet/Comp, American Studies, History, Anthropology, Special Education, Communications and Media Studies, Philosophy

16. What digital technologies have you been trained in?

17. Where did you learn your digital technology skills? Additional Question: If you use digital technologies in the classroom, do you feel that your department recognizes and rewards your efforts to teach students these new literacies? No: 67 % Yes: 33%