Slides at: https://goo.gl/U6phUx
Brian Norberg / brian.norberg@duke.edu / IT Analyst, Trinity Technology Services
with Amanda Starling Gould / amanda.gould@duke.edu / DH Specialist, Franklin Humanities Institute
So Targaryen, Thomas Malory, and Edward Said are in the Same Course Description
Unfamiliar Ways of Reading
New Ways of Looking at Material
Find Contemporary Media to Work With
Give Students the Ability to Curate the Material
Engage the Public and Research Community
Deconstructing DH
When doing digital projects it's best to ask what students can't do to determine what they can do. Students can't:
What Teachers can do to scaffold their students' digital work
Prepare for imperfect work (your expectations should be similar to those for traditional assignments)
Ask Not What Students Can Do for You...
Have defined learning outcomes for digital aspects
Create guidelines and, if possible, documentation
Setting Digital Ground Rules
Talk to an IT Person...
some who does a bit of both teaching and technology support. And don't forget librarians, learning innovation staff, and other colleagues can help too.
Type of Digital Projects
Replace a Paper (e.g. multimedia essays, timelines, maps) - instead of putting materials in an essay, student puts knowledge into another medium; teacher must decide on possible media and grading guidelines
Lesson Plan (e.g. podcasts, text analysis projects, geospatial projects) - teacher needs to know a little bit about the digital method explored, decide on tools to use, and develop structured activities to build up to final project
Examples: Race and Ethnicity in Advertising (Duke Library), Sonic Dictionary & Project Vox
The CMSs: Omeka, Drupal, Wordpress
Example: Adapt and Survive & The Haka
Sway
Cloud-based application that is extremely easy to use and free; iframeable
Examples: Games of Thrones & City Plaza Solidarity Space (go to digital stories tab)
StorymapJS
Customize display and behavior of timeline as needed
Cloud-based software that is straightforward to use: data is rendered from a Google Spreadsheet
Examples: Republican Run-Up & ADAPT (go to digital stories tab)
TimelineJS
What is Spatial Analysis
Examples: Global Ecological Solutions Map & Imaging Kanto
Google My Maps
Story Maps combines of the narrative strength of StorymapJS with the spatial analysis capability of more advanced GIS software
Add narrative text, videos, images, and maps
Cloud-based application available through Duke Libraries ArcOnline license; iframeable; Library Guide
Example: The Uprooted & Legacies of Labor
ESRI Story Maps
What is Textual Analysis?
Voyant Tools is a web-based text reading and analysis environment.
Work with your own corpus or practice on one of the included corpuses
Does work frequency, co-occurrence, word clouds, topic models, etc.; allows exporting of graphs and iframes
Cloud-based application that pairs well with a free text repository like Project Gutenberg
Example: A Republic of Emails
Voyant Tools
Don’t let the fancy technology lure you in.
Select the technology that best fits:
Scope is the key
Tool Matrix
More Tools, Tutorials, and Projects
Brian Norberg / brian.norberg@duke.edu / IT Analyst, Trinity Technology Services
Amanda Starling Gould / amanda.gould@duke.edu / DH Specialist, Franklin Humanities Institute