Week 9: Where are the digital humanities going next?

I will be traveling for the rest of Week 8, so this is an early update about Week 9. If you have any questions about these plans, I’ll be checking my email at least once a day while I’m gone.

While I’m gone, you should be doing two things:

1. Completing your documented exploration of a digital humanities tool. This means getting all of your text and screenshots into Medium and having a classmate (or two!) peer review your tutorial. I’ll leave it up to you to make arrangements with one another, but if you need a place to meet, our regular room will be available during class time on Wednesday.
2. Generating lots of ideas for your individual final project and our collaborative class project. We will discuss both of these assignments in more detail next week, but right now, you should be considering multiple options for each project.

Here’s a quick overview of how we’ll spend our time next week:

• On Monday, we will explore several “varieties” of digital humanities, with Jennifer and Britt serving as our discussion superheroes. Before you come to class, please read pages 27–60 in Digital_Humanities. Most importantly, don’t forget that your “documented exploration” project is due before you come to class. To submit your project, all you need to do is publish it on Medium and submit it to our collection on Medium.
• On Wednesday, we will meet in the Library’s Special Collections (near the coffee shop on the first floor) to get some training on digitizing historical artifacts. Please do not come to our regular classroom; go directly to Special Collections at 4:00 p.m.

Good luck finishing up your tutorials, and enjoy your mini-break from Quinn! I’ll see you when I get back from Indianapolis.