Twelve-week Schedule
Six biweekly workshops at CHDR, 10 AM – noon, on Wednesdays. Streamed and recorded; attendance is optional. Six asynchronous off-weeks reinforce the workshop content with a deep-dive reading + exercise menu — complete at least one exercise each off-week and share back in the cohort Discord; readings beyond the Required items are pick-what-fits.
The compact grid lives on the overview page; this page is the long-form version, with a paragraph of context and the key beats for each week.
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W1 Workshop Wed May 13 Workshop 1: Introducing AI for DH Pedagogy
ELIZA, LLMs, the ChatGPT moment, the agentic horizon
In this introduction, we will try to pin down the nebulous term "AI" by looking at historical precedents and the component parts, including Large-Language Models. We will survey the space of current commercial AI, with what are often referred to as "frontier" or "foundation" models, and begin our work with Claude by exploring the interface and settings and completing some introductory exercises.
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W2 Async starts May 18 LLM Fundamentals (Asynchronous)
Claude interface, Projects, model selection
This week, the goal is to build comfort and familiarity with the Anthropic Claude interface and tools specifically before we engage with more complex tasks. Try experimenting with other projects and larger questions in addition to the exercises, and aim to spend enough time with the interface to get frustrated and bring questions to our next live session.
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W3 Workshop Wed May 27 Workshop 2: AI for Textual Analysis
Distant reading and corpus work with Claude Projects
This week, we'll explore distant reading and computational text analysis across disciplines. Bring a set of texts to play with: we'll discuss the copyright implications of what we work with, and dive into how we work using Claude Projects to handle larger numbers of files.
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W4 Async starts Jun 1 Distant Reading and Skills (Asynchronous)
Claude Projects + Skills for text work
This week's exercises are designed to let you explore the capacity of Claude Projects and Skills on your own, with a focus on working with either other people's text or across your own files. Consider trying to build your own exercise with your students in mind, thinking about the ways of working modeled in the examples.
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W5 Workshop Wed Jun 10 Workshop 3: AI for Visual Analysis
Visual analysis with Claude Projects, Artifacts, and Cowork
Image generation (and multimodal AI more broadly) is among the most contested forms of AI usage, raising questions of copyright and ethics that we'll address in this week's discussions. Our exercises will focus on image analysis and the ways AI is reshaping how we work with visual culture broadly, with pragmatic tasks such as alt-text and metadata alongside image analysis. We'll use Claude Projects, Claude Artifacts, and Claude Cowork in this week's exercises.
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W6 Async starts Jun 15 Cowork and Multimodal AI (Asynchronous)
Scheduled Cowork tasks, local models via Hugging Face, caption correction, and the image-to-image loop
This week extends Workshop 3's visual-analysis work into automated, local, and accessibility-focused territory. Try scheduling an agentic task in Claude Cowork, set up the Hugging Face connector and run a local model for alt-text, correct auto-captions on a recorded talk, close the loop from image *analysis* to image *generation* across several tools, draft a slide deck with Claude Design, or build a voice interface as an AI Artifact.
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W7 Workshop Wed Jun 24 Workshop 4: Web and Interactive Applications
Agentic AI, GitHub Pages, and Claude Code Web
This week, we will be looking at how classic digital humanities pedagogical tasks (such as the creation of an eportfolio or the annotation and presentation of an image collection) can change with the addition of agentic AI tools. We'll define what agentic AI currently means and how it works, introduce GitHub and GitHub pages as a free method for students to build web-based projects; and introduce the Claude Code Web interface, comparing it with the local Claude Code Desktop workflow.
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W8 Async starts Jun 29 Build Something Real (Asynchronous)
Confidence-building across Claude Code Web and Claude Code Desktop (with Hugging Face plugins)
Workshop 4 introduced two interfaces side by side — Claude Code Web in the browser and Claude Code Desktop on your own machine. This week you pick one of four projects and carry it to a finished thing. Two run in Claude Code Web (rebuild an old site you'd given up on; build an interactive educational resource for a course). Two run in Claude Code Desktop and reach for open models on Hugging Face through plugins (a tool for a project; a local audio/captioning tool for your own class). Required reading: Willison's "Beyond Vibe Coding" and Farrell's "After Software Eats the World."
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W9 Workshop Wed Jul 8 Workshop 5: Playful Approaches and Creative Code
Course games, planning mode, and AI policy
Now that we've built more confidence with Claude Code, we'll move to Claude Code Desktop with the Superpowers plugin and engage with more of its potential for playful and experimental pedagogy. We'll open with demos of tools for research and pedagogy — Sarah Norris on finding data, and Mel Stanfill on building research scrapers with AI assistance. Then, in the build half of the workshop, we will make simple games and tools based on concepts from your courses, and use planning mode to convey complex intention and override basic design choices. We'll manage our projects with GitHub Desktop and deploy to Pages. We will also think through what this type of agentic way of working means for AI policies and pedagogy.
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W10 Async starts Jul 13 UDL and AI Policy by Discipline (Asynchronous)
Discipline-specific accessibility, UDL, and AI policy
As every discipline has different approaches to accessibility, universal learning design, and AI policies, this week is an opportunity to both build your literacy with Claude Code and think through the pragmatic implications of this work for your own courses and discipline.
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W11 Workshop Wed Jul 22 Coming soon Workshop 6: Agentic Futures, Curricular Sustainability
Local agentic powertools (demo-only) and disciplinary consequences
While Claude Code Web is one of the most powerful agentic tools available through the web, the real agentic powertools are usually run on your own machine. In this session, we'll demo what these types of tools are capable of, and discuss the consequences of these ways of working for our disciplines and our students future careers. Currently, UCF does not allow faculty to install local agentic tools on university computers without considerable permissions considerations, so this week's workshop will primarily demo ways of working you mmight want to explore further on your own machine.
Full week page (coming soon) Slide deck (coming soon)
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W12 Async starts Jul 27 Coming soon Course Proposal / Course Update (Asynchronous)
Planning fall, with AI assistance that doesn't replace your labor
This week's focus is on finishing out your planning for fall's course proposal or course update: the exercises will include some suggestions of how you might use tools like the Claude Code CLI or Cowork to assist with that work without replacing your own pedagogical intention or labor.
Full week page (coming soon)
Stage map
| Stage | Weeks | Tool | What it changes |
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| 1 | W1–W4 | Claude Projects | Persistent context, file uploads, text analysis |
| 2 | W5–W6 | Claude Artifacts | Visual analysis, shareable interactive outputs |
| 3 | W7–W10 | Claude Code (Web → Desktop) | Multi-file projects, GitHub Pages deployment |
| 4 | W11–W12 | Cowork + Claude CLI (tour only) | Agentic workflows, terminal-native AI |