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…
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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…
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…
Unit A Labs/Building Blocks: Creating Your Website or Blog
Before we begin: this tutorial is for students who do not already have a website. [If you already have a website please send me an email or come to Zoom office hours ASAP. Tell me: what your website’s web address…
Private Blog Discussion Responses
Responses to the Private Blog Discussion Leader questions help us engage the material more deeply than any lecture can. Please enjoy the discussion! For Week 1, responses will be evaluated using this rubric. Respond to at least two questions in…
Critical-Analytical Reflection
The Assignment ***You must complete this assignment at a Satisfactory level to pass the course.*** Choose a theme from the course that you think you learned a lot about. Write a blog post articulating what you learned and why this…