This project presents an overview of a tool/method valuable in DH. Designed to be undertaken by a group. Requirements include analysis and description of tool and its use in DH. Delivered as a slideshow presentation and a page on our site. Individual work possible but discouraged. Due week 7, presented in class. Can replace project 1 if higher.
You should consider working as a collaborative team on this project. Each project requires the following types of work:
- identifying and selecting a tool of significance to do the work of analysis, interpretation, preservation, or publication in the humanities.
- researching your selected tool so that you can explain how its used and why it is significant
- identifying digital projects that either (a) use your selected tool, (b) could have used your selected tool, but chose an alternative, or (c) should have used your selected tool, but didn’t use it or an alternative and the project is diminished.
- researching recent scholarship in order to gain the perspective of other scholars.
- building a slideshow in our google drive folder that uses information from your research and presents that information in an effective way that communicates the team’s perspective
- writing a 1 page overview (single-spaced) that communicates the team’s research and presents it effectively
- composing a page on WordPress that shares the team’s presentation on our class website
By submission deadline, your team will have produced three artifacts that communicate the team’s research on your selected discipline: (a) a slideshow, shared in our google drive folder; (b) a 1-page max written document that communicates the team’s analysis in a concise, coherent report, also shared on our folder; (c) a live webpage on our class site that shares the slides and the information from the report.
Check out the Getting Started page and the Supplement page for tips and help!
Join our folder on Google Drive
Required Content Elements for Presentation
Your presentation should consist of 7 sections
- (1) Identification of team, context, purpose of presentation
- (2) Introduction and Overview of Tool
- (3) Analysis of Tool
- (4) Disciplines that benefit from this tool
- (5) Digital Projects relevant to this tool
- (6) Scholarship that examines this tool
- (7) Evaluation and conclusion
These 7 required elements should be communicated in both of the written artifacts from the project team. Additionally, if you work on a team each member of the team must write a statement of collaboration, where you report out any last minute hurdles and how your team addressed them (emailed to me).
Schedule
Your team will work together to identify a discipline, select tools and projects related to that discipline, and review the materials. Each team should select an individual as coordinator; coordinators should ensure that each team member has a clear role, assigned duties, and responsibilities for the assignment.
Your Disciplinary Presentation is due at 11:59 pm on 9/26. Here are the dates and deadlines for the project’s elements:
9/27 & 9/29: Overview project, form/revise teams
9/30: Deadline for team membership document
10/3: Identify tool, projects(2), scholarship (1) on team document. Assign roles.
10/4-10/8: Conferences available. Required draft conference. Class canceled for confs 10/6 & 10/8
10/11 complete draft for slideshow with all (7) required elements
10/11-10/13 full draft feedback conference required. class canceled for confs
10/13 draft of web page and report
10/14-10/15 Peer review
10/14-10/15 Conference for feedback on report
10/17 Project Due
10/18: Statement of collaboration due via email
Teams
You are encouraged to work on a team in this project. A good team is about 5 members, but a maximum is 7. The last date to join a team is 9/30.
Grades
Your project will be graded according to (a) content (40%) reflecting your analysis and description of the tool you select; (b) writing composition of slides (20%), including the required elements of visual and word-based information; (c) the written composition of the 1 pager and website(20%); your engagement in the process (20%). 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) Identification of team, context, purpose
- this section gives the context for the Disciplinary Presentation. Identify the team name, names of individuals, and the context (F 2021 Intro to DHM at WCU Project 1). Identify the purpose of this presentation.
- (2) Overview of Tool,
- Introduce the tool, including relevant who, what, when, where, what disciplines, etc. 2-3 slides
- (3) Analysis of Tool
- build your expertise by analyzing in detail how the tool is used: does it required advanced/specialised skill? what does the tool produce when one uses it? use specific examples from tool site. 2-4 slides
- (4) disciplines
- Identify relevant disciplines for this tool, and how they might use the tool. 1-2 slides
- (5) projects for this tool
- Identify at least 2 projects that use/might use this tool, and to what purpose. 2-4 slides.
- (6) Scholarship
- Identify 2 relevant peer-reviewed scholarship that references this tool and its use. One slide per publ. Identify publ. by title, researchers, years, and research question. Google scholar.
- (7) Evaluation and conclusion
- Sum it up by evaluating the tool to its results in the selected discipline.
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 6 required components of the slides: (1) Context, (2) Discipline, (3) Project, (4) Tools & Methods, (5) Scholarship, (6) Evaluation.
- 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.
- The window on this assignment closes at 12 noon on Saturday 10/16, leaving time for revisions on Saturday and Sunday.
This peer review counts as 1/9 of your process pts (20%) for Project 1.
Project Technologies
Your team will use google drive to compose the slides and report, and receive WordPress credentials to manage the public facing page sharing the project. I recommend the team select a new member to build the web page, to ensure roundedness for skill development. WordPress Tutorial: https://youtu.be/8AZ8GqW5iak?t=780, but there’s tons of tutorials and help documents online.
Late work will lose 5 points per calendar day past the deadline.
