This page offers examples of in-class usage of the JDA or other disaster-related digital tools.You may use resources available in this page to think about ways to incoporate the archive into your teaching and/or school curriculum. If you have used JDA to teach a course or have incorporated it into a part of course you have taught or are going to teach, please share with info@jdarchive.org!
History and Anthropology 1923 "Japan's 2011 Disasters and Their Aftermath: A Workshop on Digital Research"
Instructors: Theodore C. Bestor, Andrew Gordon, Kyle Parry and Ryo Morimoto
Supplementary Reading List
Group User Account: 2011disasters (in 2016) and 1923seminar (in 2013)
Example Collections from 2013: "Nuclear Protest Music" by Jewelianne Houllette, "Shelters" by Max Harrison, and "Twitter Data and Hope" by Meg
Example Collections from 2016: "Innovative reconstruction practice" by Yun Shi, "Yakuza" by Sara Kang, "Disaster and Gender Relationships" by Wenting Qin, "Manga & Disaster" by Ash Asencios, "Overseas Students Funding Raising for 3/11 Earthquake" by Gabby Chen, and "Women in Disaster," by Juhee Kang
ENVS/JPN/EAS 275 "Nature and Culture in Japan"
Instructor: Cheryl A. Crowley
Group User Account: Nature and Culture in Japan/ Emory Students
Example Collections: "Minamata Disease" by Xun He, "Forecasting Disasters" by Hyun Ki Kim, "Post-Tsunami Ecological Destruction and Restoration of Japanese Coastal Ecosystems" by Riley Book, "The Spreading of Tsunami Debris" by Paris Wagner, and "Art after the Disaster" by Hannah Kim
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF DISASTER SCIENCE (IRIDeS)
東北大学災害科学国際研究所
September 2017
Example Collections: "Tohoku Earthquake and Media" by Akira Seino, "Disaster Tourism" by Potsawat Boojaipetch, "Exhibitions about the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster in Museums" by Hiroshi Tetsuka, and "お地蔵さん" by Janice Ni
September 2016
Report: "Using Harvard’s Digital Archive of Japan's 2011 Disasters: Student Collaboration and Exchange
September 2015
Report: "Using the Digital Archive of Japan’s 2011 Disasters in the Classroom: Collaboration between Tohoku University and Harvard University"
Example Collections: "津波記念碑・伝承と教訓" by Yuya Matsuoka, "religious activities and mental care" by Shun Gong, and "基礎ゼミ マイコレクション" by Tetsuro Asano.
STUDENT VOLUNTEER PROGRAM
Example Collections: "10+1 Web site," "ドイツニュースダイジェスト," "中国的YOUTUBE," "初音ミク・Miku Hatsune," "The Japan Association for Women's Education・日本女子学習財団," and "Kumamoto Earthquake: THE PAGE"