Assignments
Course Requirements
Final course grades will be calculated as follows:14%- Hypothes.is Annotations
35%- Workbook Assignments
21%- Portfolio
30%- Practicum
Hypothes.is Annotations
During each of the first 7 modules of the course you will collaboratively annotate assigned readings and/or websites. Since this assignment is designed to prepare students for in-class discussions, you must post your annotations before class on Thursday and your annotations must demonstrate that you have critically engaged with the assigned texts (2 point per module).Workbook Assignments
Students will also complete one workbook assignment per module during the first 7 modules (to see the full prompt scroll down or go to the module pages). To receive full credit you must: 1) complete the entire assignment, 2) post your assignment before class on Tuesday, and 3) present your assignment to the class. Because workbook assignments are skill building exercises, you will be graded for your effort and receive feedback to encourage continued learning (5 points per assignment).Portfolio
During Module 8 you will have the opportunity to build on the skills that you have developed and the feedback that you have received to design your own Scalar book that contains a personal bio and two edited workbook assignments. This assignment will be graded for quality, so be sure to showcase your best work (7 points per assignment and 7 points for the bio and overall design).Practicum
In the final module, you will work in groups to contribute to the ongoing digital humanities project Changing Landscapes: From 'The ASU Story' to Modern A-State.Prompts and Due Dates
Module 1
R Aug 23- Annotation #1T Aug 28 - Assignment #1
Locate and carry out a formal academic review of a digital humanities project that is not listed on the "Resources" page. For tips on how to conduct and structure your review read The Public Historian Digital Project Review Guidelines and consult reviews that have been published in the journal. Post the review to your "Assignment #1" page of our Scalar workbook and be prepared to present your selected project to the class.
Module 2
R Aug 30- Annotation #2T Sep 4- Assignment #2
Locate and carry out a formal academic review of a DH tool from the DiRT directory that is not listed on the "Resources" page. For tips on how to conduct and structure your review consult the directory's Assignment-in-a-box. Post the review to your "Assignment #2" page of our Scalar workbook and be prepared to present your selected tool to the class.
Module 3
R Sep 6- Annotation #3T Sep 11-Assignment #3
Part I: Select four online bios of successful individuals in a field that interests you and discuss what they tell us about the academic or professional bio as a form. For a list of additional questions to consider, go here. If you would like to focus on digital humanists, check out the collaborators section of dhcommons.org, an online hub that matches digital humanities projects seeking assistance with scholars interested in project collaboration. Post the assignment to your "Assignment #3" page of our Scalar workbook, and make sure to embed and/or include links to your selected bios. Part II: Using the insights you have gained from the readings and bio analysis exercise, construct an academic and/or professional bio for your home page in our Scalar workbook.
Module 4
R Sep 13- Annotation #4T Sep 18- Assignment #4 (Adapted from Jentery Sayers)
In our Scalar workbook import one image and one video or audio file related to a topic of your choice. Assign the Dublin Core (DC) Metadata Element Set to each resource, and use the Scalar annotation tool to provide commentary and/or interpretive information about each resource. Address the following questions alongside your resources, which should be displayed with your metadata captions and annotations: When assigning metadata to your resources, what issues did you encounter? For instance, what decisions were difficult? Generally speaking, what have you learned about DC metadata and the practice of assigning it? How (if any) of that learning relates to our discussion of the assigned readings? How is annotating similar to and/or different from assigning DC metadata? Title your entry "Student's Name + Assignment #4," and follow the instructions on the "Assignment" page of our workbook to make sure that it shows up in the contents of your personal page and the "Assignment #4" page.
Module 5
R Sep 20 - Annotation #5T Sep 25-Assignment #5
Use Scalar to create an interactive map with 6 entries on a topic of your choosing. To make a map, first create a page for each entry in our Scalar workbook. Each of these pages must contain a title, a description, a key image or media url, and Metadata that specifies the location (either dcterms: spatial or dcterms: coverage). After you have created a page for each of your entries, "gather" them via the Scalar Map Widget (directions here) or the Scalar Google Map Layout (directions here) on your "Assignment #5" page. Be sure to follow the instructions on the "Assignment" page of our workbook to make sure that it shows up in the contents of your personal page and the "Assignment #5" page.
Module 6
R Sep 27- Annotation #6T Oct 2- Assignment #6 (Adapted from Miriam Posner)
Use one of Dr. John Rasp's Data Sets for Classroom Use to build a simple data visualization with Tableau, Raw Graphs or Palladio doing your best to adhere to the principles Nathan Yau lays out in Data Points. Embed your visualization on your "Assignment #6" page and discuss what your visualization tells you that you couldn’t see from the data itself. Be sure to follow the instructions on the "Assignment" page of our workbook to make sure that it shows up in the contents of your personal page and the "Assignment #6" page.
Module 7
R Oct 4 - Annotation #7T Oct 9-Assignment #7
Drawing on the insights you have gained from the assigned readings, use Voyant to analyze a demo corpora from Alan Liu's Data Collections and Datasets. After you have selected your corpus and uploaded it into Voyant, use The Practical Guide to Text Analysis with Voyant Tools to help you interpret the resulting visualizations. Embed your visualizations via iframe and/or the Voyant export function in your "Assignment #7" page of our workbook with a discussion of how you draw meaning from the visualizations (be specific). What do they tell you about your corpus? Could you have arrived at that interpretation via close-reading, why or why not? Be sure to follow the instructions on the "Assignment" page of our workbook to make sure that it shows up in the contents of your personal page and the "Assignment #7" page.
Module 8
R Oct 11- Work on PortfolioT Oct 16- Work on Portfolio
R Oct 18- Present Completed Portfolio
Module 9
During the final module you will have roughly six weeks to work in groups to contribute to the ongoing digital humanities project Changing Landscapes: From 'The ASU Story' to Modern A-State (full prompts can be found here).T Oct 23- Part #1: Project Review (5 points)
T Oct 30- Part #2: Project Contract (10 points)
M Dec 10- Part #3: Final Group Projects Due (15 points)