Tuesday, November 13
- Your final digital project should include the following elements:
- An inviting Home page on a WordPress site that introduces the central thesis/research question of your project and draws the user in to explore more.
- A clear and navigable layout.
- Digital artifacts that provide a level of interactivity or visualization to your project, such as the digital edition of your memoir(s), timelines, maps, charts and graphs, etc.
- Context, narrative, and interpretation about different aspects of your research question.
- Digital assets such as images, audio, and video, and their accompanying metadata, as necessary.
- A Sources page or section (your bibliography).
- An About page or section that provides:
- Short biographies of your team members.
- A Documentation page or section that provides (where applicable):
- Information on the tools or other digital components used to create your project (including links to their web pages).
- You will also compose a final blog post reflecting on the final digital artifact. (1000 words)In this essay you will reflect upon the process of the final project: namely,
- explanation about why particular method or tool was chosen
- screenshots that demonstrate process, experimentation, mastery, complications, difficulties and challenges, how these were met – and hopefully overcome)
- incorporation of direct and indirect reference to two secondary sources we have read for class *and* two secondary sources on the Moravian memoirs
- You must meet with your instructor to discuss your ideas before you can proceed with the project
- You will present your proposed research project to the group in a snap talk in the last days of class (Thursday, Nov. 29 and Tuesday, December 4).
- Instructions for Setting Up WordPress Sites
Thursday, November 15
Assignment of times for Snap Talks (this is worth 7% of your final grade)
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- Each member of your group will speak for 5 minutes. Your snap talk should present (in a series of slides)
- your research question(s). This should include a brief overview of the content of the memoir you are working on
- the data extracted from your group’s pages (What is it? How did you create it? What editorial choices did you make to create the data?)
- your methodology (How are you going about answering your research question? Which platforms are you using?
- your design
- What scholarly sources are you drawing on for both the posing of your research question. You must draw on at least three scholarly sources from your readings this semester.
- Each member of your group will speak for 5 minutes. Your snap talk should present (in a series of slides)
Workshop final project
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Tuesday, November 27
- workshop and feedback
Thursday, November 29
- Snaptalks session #1
- Latrobe group
- Raleigh Singer
- Mauricio Martinez
- Nathan Ware
- Carly Pavoni
- Jessica Hom
- Julianna Kim
- Grundy
- Caleb Broughton
- Mitch Gavars
- Caroline Walsh
- Meg Koczur
- Tippett
- Allison Butler
- Morgan Graning
- Clayton Wright
- Bhagawat Acharya
- Latrobe group
- Peer evaluation of Snap talk form here
- final project workshop
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Week 14
Tuesday, December 4
- Snaptalks session #2
- Lees
- Hailey Zimmerman
- Paige Whitney
- Anderson
- Zakee Willis
- Willey
- Tyler George
- Jacob Hubbard
- Rosemary Rong
- Bethlehem memoirs
- Ethan Conklin
- Brendan Matthys
- Samantha Salazar
- Olivia Smith
- Lees
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- Peer evaluation of Snap talk form here
- Final Project due: 12/12/18 2.45pm
