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Week 4

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Spatializing Data: Narrative Mapping and Spatial Analysis


1. Read and collaboratively annotate Jo Guldi, “Spatial Turn.” Spatial Humanities: A Project of the Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship, at the website of the University of Virginia Scholar’s Lab. http://spatial.scholarslab.org/spatial-turn/. Hypothesis link.

2. Read and collaboratively annotate Edward W. Soja, “The City and Spatial Justice” (justice spatiale spatial justice, Nanterre, France: https://www.jssj.org/, 2008).  Hypothesis link.

3. Explore and collaboratively annotate the DH project ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World. Hypothesis link.

Assignment

Using data from the National Center for Education Statistics's College Navigator and digital media from the web, make a narrative map about some aspect of  higher education in Arkansas (tuition, enrollment, etc.) with Knightlab's digital story telling tool StoryMapsJS.  Once you have completed your map, embed it in a new page of the Workbook titled "Student's Name+Narrative Map."  Instructions about how to embed third party material in Scalar can be found here.  Once you have completed the page,  follow the instructions on the "Assignment" page of the Workbook to make sure that it  1) shows up in the contents of your portfolio and 2) is tagged on the "Narrative Map" page.