For this lab you have TWO options to choose from: Scrape, archive, and analyze Tweets from Twitter on a cultural heritage topic NOTE: for this one the sooner you start the better. This tool archives Tweets beginning from seven days…
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Unit E Lab/Building Block: 3d Scanning
This assignment gives you two different options! Each is very different, with different requirements (downloading software or writing, working online or mostly offline) and different output. Read each one for the details. Pretend you want to scan something at the…
Unit D Lab/Building Block
Note: To earn an A or B in the course, undergrads need FOUR labs/building blocks; grads need FIVE for an A and 4 for a B. If you already have 3 at a Satisfactory level (check mark in Canvas), you…
Posts on Individual Blogs
YES THIS IS LONG. YES IT’S IMPORTANT TO READ THE WHOLE THING 🙂 Assignment Overview A successful blog post gets people thinking about an issue, a document, an object, an event in more depth and/or in new ways. Your task…
What does a blog look like?
Some of you have said you don’t read a lot of blogs and are wondering what an academic blog looks like. Here are some examples. Keep in mind — some of them have content that would fulfill the criteria for…
Personal Blog: Landing Page & Menu
For a website to convey information effectively, it needs to be well-organized. For this assignment, student blogs/websites need: A landing page that somehow articulates what this site is. The landing page may be the page of blog posts or a…
Lab/Building Block Unit C: Crowdsourcing
Your assignment is to participate in and reflect on a history or cultural heritage crowd-sourcing project. Most of these are transcription projects. 1. Choose one of the following projects: Smithsonian Freedman’s Bureau Project Library of Congress Clara Barton papers Zooniverse’s…
Unit B Lab/Building Block: A Digital Archive of Archives
For this assignment, we are going to collaboratively create a Digital Archive. Since we’re studying Archives in this unit, we will make an Archive of Archives!! We will use the software Omeka to create our Digital Archive of Archives. All…
Projects
Projects are required for all graduate students and for undergrads wishing to earn an A. In the project, students will develop and answer a research question about cultural heritage data or cultural heritage in a digital context. The project should…
Discussion Leader Assignment
This semester, you and one or two other students will lead discussion on the blog for one or two weeks (depending on the bundle of assignments you choose for your grade). As a discussion leader, your goals for the discussion…