{"id":343,"date":"2017-11-08T02:20:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T02:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/?page_id=343"},"modified":"2017-12-06T03:57:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T03:57:33","slug":"about-coplac","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/about-coplac\/","title":{"rendered":"About COPLAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"section-title\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">ABOUT COPLACDigital<\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"section-desc\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">COPLACDigital is a Mellon Foundation-funded initiative to develop distance mentoring digital liberal arts courses across the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges consortium. Based on the highly successful\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/centuryamerica.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Century America<\/a>\u00a0seminar, COPLACDigital brings together faculty, students, archivists, and instructional technologists to collaborate in the public creation of\u00a0knowledge.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/coplacdigital.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00bb<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">COPLAC courses focuses on conducting digital liberal arts classes on multiple campuses at once by a team of teachers through distance mentoring.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">About This COPLAC Course: Cultural Crossroads<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Our project comes as a result of coursework from the 2017 Fall semester COPLAC course titles Cultural Crossroads led by Alvis Dunn from the University of North Carolina Asheville and Leland Turner from Midwestern State University. The course is described as such:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0Migration is a constant in human history and laden with cultural implications. In virtually any locale the movement\u00a0<strong><em>in<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0of people has occurred.\u00a0 Those migrations are not always at the forefront of the historical memory of a place.\u00a0 In this course students will investigate migration into the community or communities surrounding their campus.\u00a0 Once an in-migration group is identified the students will work to discover the cultural contributions brought to bear on their communities. This movement may have happened at any time in the community\u2019s history.\u00a0 By thinking creatively and broadly students will find groups in their regions and identify the contributions of those one-time newcomers to the life and culture in those places. Students are asked to consider how migrant culture broadly defined may have influenced music, culinary traditions, labor relations, craft and art, agriculture, architecture, or religion. By bringing to life these stories the students\u2019 crossroads projects will rescue forgotten local history from obscurity.<\/p>\n<p>Previous Page: <a href=\"http:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/about-us\/\">About Us<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next Page: <a href=\"http:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/justification\/\">The Project<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABOUT COPLACDigital COPLACDigital is a Mellon Foundation-funded initiative to develop distance mentoring digital liberal arts courses across the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges consortium. Based on the highly successful\u00a0Century America\u00a0seminar, COPLACDigital brings together faculty, students, archivists, and instructional technologists to collaborate in the public creation of\u00a0knowledge.\u00a0\u00bb COPLAC courses focuses on conducting digital liberal arts &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/about-coplac\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About COPLAC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-343","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9o96F-5x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/343\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xroads.coplacdigital.org\/keene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}