Project I: Disciplinary Presentation

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Project 1

DHM280 S2022

randall.cream@gmail.com rcream@wcupa.edu @randallcream 

Schedule a meeting for f2f on campus or remote via Zoom

This writing project asks you to analyze a relationship between a chosen academic discipline and the interdisciplinary field of Digital Humanities.  Your analysis will examine a discipline, a digital research/creative project, and the use of tools and values shared with DH. You will produce a webpage, a slideshow, and a short half-page report.  

This project is best undertook by a team of 3-5, although larger teams may be able to succeed and smaller teams are permitted.  Due at start of week 5, presented in class.

You should consider working as a collaborative team on this project.  Each project requires you to work in the following areas:

  1. Identifying, selecting, and analyzing a discipline to identify what are the questions of importance and goals from your selected discipline and how your selected discipline uses digital tools/methods
  2. Identifying, selecting, and analyzing projects that reflect your discipline 
  3. Identifying, selecting, and analyzing tools used by researchers in your selected discipline 
  4. Identifying values that reflect overlap between your selected discipline and DH values
  5. Identifying goals that reflect overlap between your selected discipline and DH goals
  6. Identifying and selecting recent peer-reviewed publications that reflect digital research or practice in your selected fields
  7. building a webpage that  uses information from the above research and presents that information in an effective way that communicates the team’s understanding
  8. building a slideshow in our google drive folder that overviews and highlights the information
  9. writing a ½ page report (single-spaced) that summarizes the team’s research 

By submission deadline, your team will have produced a project that effectively communicates the team’s research on your selected discipline: (a) a webpage with all of team’s analysis and research; (b) a slideshow of at least 5 slides and no more than 10 slides, shared in our google drive folder; and (b) a ½ to 1-page written report that professionally summarizes the team’s analysis in a concise, coherent report; 

Check out the disciplines page for help on disciplines and the sections on finding a Project, Tool, or Publication from the Weekly research assignment page for tips and help!

Required Content Elements

Your webpage should consist of 8 sections

  • (1) Overview & Identification of context 
  • (2) description of Discipline 
  • (3) Digital Tools & Methods in that Discipline 
  • (4) Digital Projects relevant to that disciplines 
  • (5) Goals from Discipline that align with DH goals 
  • (6) Values from Discipline that align with DH values
  • (7) Scholarship from that discipline 
  • (8) Evaluation and conclusion 
  • (9) team and context

Schedule

Writing Project 1 is due at 1159 pm 2/21. Here are the dates and deadlines for the project’s process elements:

2/3: Overview project and form teams.

2/6: invention material due: Identify discipline, tool, project, goal 

2/7-2/11 Conference 1 on Project 1. Discuss discipline, project, tool.  Project Building/Wordpress help.  

2/13 Draft due: 1-6 sections with  content. Minimum of 400 words.  

2/14-16 Conference 2. Discuss draft 

2/17 & 18 Peer Review 

2/17-18 Conference 3. Discuss slideshow & report

2/21 Project due

2/22 presentation of slideshow in class 

Teams

You are encouraged to work on a team. I will place you on teams if you don’t choose one.  Grades

Your project will be graded according to (a) content (50%) reflecting your analysis of (i) the Discipline (ii) digital tools (iii) projects and (iv) goals and values; (b) writing composition of website, slides and report (36%); your engagement in the process (14%).  A team will share a grade on each component.

Project Building

I’d like you to work in collaboration on this project, offering advice and assistance with technology, writing, and review of the project.  You’re required to meet with me at least three times over this project building period, but I’m available to work with you more frequently if you find it helpful.

Project Content

  • (1) Overview and Identification of context
    • this section gives the context for the work of Writing project 1. 
  • (2) Overview of Discipline,
    • Identify the discipline you select.  Describe what sorts of things it studies, ordinarily, and how it studies them. Overview the relationship of that discipline to culture, as broadly understood.  Resources: wikipedia, departments websites at WCU. 
  • (3) Digital Tools & Methods in that Discipline
    • Identify relevant tools/methods and how they are used by the selected discipline that makes it relevant to DH. One tool/method minimum.   May occur before or after project slides. From projects or scholarships. 
  • (4) Digital Projects relevant to that disciplines
    • Identify relevant digital project(s) that exemplify research in your discipline using digital tools/methods. One project minimum. Identify projects, use screenshots of something relevant, and describe what their research question/goal is. May occur before or after toolsl
  • (5) Goals
    • Identify at least one way that discipline goals and DH goals align
  • (6) Values
    • Identify at least one value that aligns between discipline and DH
      • NOTE: 5 & 6 can be combined if desired
  • (7) Scholarship from that discipline
    • Identify relevant peer-reviewed scholarship looking that use digital tools/methods to pursue research in that field.  One publ. minimum. Identify publ. by title, researchers, years, and research question.  Google scholar.
  • (8) Evaluation and conclusion
    • Sum it up by evaluating the relationship between dh tools/methods and the selected discipline.
  • (9) Identify the team name, names of individuals, and the context (Spr 2022 Intro to DHM at WCU Project 1). Can be long or short…

Process Assignments

  • Invention: Your team must list a discipline, a tool, a project, and a goal
  • Conference 1 
  • Draft 1 Your team must have 1-6 sections with content area built
  • Conference 2
  • Peer Review
  • Conference 3
  • Slides presentation

Peer Review

The peer review assignment asks you to give feedback to another team on their project slides. You may also give feedback on the report and webpage. Peer review occurs on D2L in the Discussions.

Rules:

  • Each team is assigned another team to review, as identified in the topics.
  • Each member must make at least one post to receive credit for this assignment. Members without posts will not receive credit.
  • As a whole, each team must give feedback on each of the 8 required components of the slides.
  • Each individual feedback must include at least one positive thing about the project and one critical thing that you’d like the project to address.
  • This peer review counts as 1/7 of your process pts (14%) for Project 1.

Project Technologies

Your team will use google drive to compose the slides and report. We’ll use wordpress for the webpage. 

Late work will lose 5 points per calendar day past the deadline.