The Finished Projects
Campus Art Tour
Janet Duong, Sho Tanaka, Wesley Yang, and James Bradle
— Process and progress posts
Snacking on the Past
Christie Song, Sophie Ismail, Vivian Du, Emma Zhang, and Lucas Xu
— Process and progress posts
Carl Courses
Jamal Omosun, Gideon Antwi, Jonas Bartels, Hadi Ramazani, and Feraidon Abdul Rahimzai
— Process and progress posts
Analysis of Carleton Students High Schools
Margo Lewis, Ethan Ash, Kenton Young, and Jenna Young
— Process and progress posts
Carleton Football Map
Anya Mitton-Fry, Marc Eidelhoch, Sydney Merrell, and Nate Przybyla
— Process and progress posts
Networking the Arts
Tonushree Chowdhury, Clark Glymph, and Mai Tran
— Process and progress posts
Carleton Professors’ Degrees
Molly Bratton, Sunniva Maharjan, and Gus Brooks-Johnson
— Process and progress posts
The Assignment
The final projects for the course will revolve around Carleton’s history as told through its objects. The local holdings of our college—its historical, literary, artistic and physical archives—constitute our data set. Collectively, we will use new digital technologies to tell stories (well-researched, carefully documented, scholarly sophisticated stories) of how Carleton’s past inhabitants built, filled, inhabited and experienced the spaces that we encounter (or no longer encounter) today, primarily through object biographies.
You and your group will therefore design and execute a DH project using the tools and platforms of your choosing and keyed to your discipline of choice. All projects will make use of local resources, including the holdings of the Carleton College archives, local newspapers from the Northfield historical society, literary works set in the local environment, and environmental data. Part of your research will therefore involve getting out from behind the desk and into the community to gather real world data.The projects must:
- Be based on some aspect of Carleton’s history, using primary sources involving at least one object from local archives and museums
- Include an interactive visualization or interface to your source data
- Incorporate a strong narrative, storytelling element leading the user through your data
- Include a discussion of your sources (data), processes (methods), and presentation choices (platform and audience).
- Be hosted on hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu,
- and be presented with clear narrative introduction, bibliography and supporting documentation in a web-publishing platform of your choice: WordPress, Omeka, custom HTML, etc.
Final digital projects could take the form of
- 3D models and simulations
- interactive web maps, timelines, or visualizations using pre-existing platforms like Omeka, ESRI Story Maps, Story Map JS, TimelineJS, etc.
- narrated movies using iMovie or other software
- etc. etc.
Your project will be pitched in week 6, detailed and refined in week 8, published and presented in week 10.
Assignment 1 — The Pitch (Week 7)
- Members of the group
- The definition of the project topic and objectives for what you plan to produce
- The proposed methodology:
- Sources: What data do you hope to use and how do you hope to find it?
- Processes: What tools and techniques will you use to gather sources and store your data?
- What analyses or transformations will you conduct on those data?
- Presentation: How will you present the results and integrate the digital assets you create as an interactive final product?
- The proposed timeline of deliverables
- And finally, a link to one or more DH projects that you think might make a good model for what you plan to do.
Create a unique tag for your group to tag all your posts going forward.
Assignment 2 — The Details (Week 8)
Now that you’ve had some time to research and figure out what the possibilities are in terms of sources and technologies, write a blog post on the course blog tagged with your project stating the following:
- Progress
- What have you done so far, who have you talked to, what have you gathered, and what have you built?
- Problems (and proposed solutions)
- What issues have you run into?
- Have they forced you to change your initial plan?
- Do you have a proposed solution or do you need help formulating one?
- Tools and techniques
- What applications/languages/frameworks have you selected and how are you going to implement them?
- Deliverables
- An updated timeline of deliverables
- Is you project still on track?
Remember to include citations and/or links to any resources, tools, or information that you reference.
On your own blogs, write a brief message outlining your personal work on the project, your personal plans for the future, and add a link to your post on the group post on the course website.
Assignment 3 — Publication and Presentation (Week 10)
Projects will be published IN SOME FORM by class on Thursday, March 10 but not finalized.
After getting feedback on the presentation in class, the FINAL VERSION OF YOUR PROJECT IS DUE BY 5:00 pm on the last day of Final Exams
- One member of each group should write a blog post giving a brief introduction and providing a link to the final project.
On the last day of class each group will give a Pecha Kucha style presentation on their completed and published project. The rules of such a presentation are below, with credits for the format going to Ryan Cordell, via Jim Spickard.
A Pecha Kucha 1/1/5 Presentation
In this presentation, you will have exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds to present your material: 20 slides that auto-advance every 20 seconds. These presentations will follow the Pecha Kucha presentation format. Here are the rules:
- You will have exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds.
- Your presentation will use PowerPoint (or Keynote or Google Presentations), but you’ll be restricted to 20 slides. No more, no less. Period.
- Each slide must be set to auto-advance after 20 seconds. No clickers, no exceptions.
- Your presentation must also follow the 1/1/5 rule. You must have at least one image per slide, you can use each exact image only once, and you should add no more than five words per slide.
- Your images can be some of the ones you used for your project itself, screen shots of your process, or illustrative ones gathered from the internet.
- You can find Creative-Commons licensed pictures by searching through Google’s Search Tools. Click HERE for a guide to using Google Images’ tool for doing this.
- You may trade off between your members however you see fit, but the presentation should be rehearsed and polished.
You should not attempt tell us everything that you might say in a written paper nor explain every nuance of your argument. Instead, you should be looking to give us an overview of the project and highlighting its particular strengths. When designing the presentation, think SHORT, INFORMAL, and CREATIVE. Perhaps surprisingly, the Pecha Kucha form’s restriction (paradoxically) promotes this creativity.
