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LIGHTNING TALK

DIGITAL AND COMPUTATIONAL METHODS AND PRACTICES IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES.

DR MS SITHOLE

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A DRASTIC CHANGE DURING AND AFTER THE IMPACT OF COVID-19

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Before the pandemic

  • Walk ins for registration procedures
  • School work submissions through hardcopy documents and limited space to keep scripts.
  • Demand of large venues for lecturing

New developments

  • Registrations are now done online, limiting the use of many financial resources and time.
  • Functioning have became more economically friendly through sharing of books, articles, and more through Moodle, black box and other learning management systems (LMS) platforms.
  • School work is submitted through LMS (Monitoring of submission times)
  • Attending online classes through zoom/teams (Data issues, poor network signals)

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E-Portfolio - Story telling Tools: Integrating networks and narratives

  • Student social workers – Field work
  • Case work
  • Group work
  • Community work
  • Flip filing – shift from hardcopies to e-filing system.

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  • The integral role of the Internet and the world-wide web in facilitating the production and consumption of enormous amounts of information in digital space depends on the ability of computers to perform a wide variety of tasks involving human language.

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