For this lab you have TWO options to choose from: Complete the lab and post your report to your website/blog or the private course blog. It doesn’t need to be a long report — a paragraph or two with links…
Category: Assignments
Unit E Lab: 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. I recommend you try the first option. 1.…
Unit D Lab
Imagine you are an intern at Imaginary Natural History Museum. Your supervisor is excited you’ve taken this course and tells you they want you to help digitize the collection. They gesture over at the Native American collection and tell you…
Lab C: Crowdsourcing
Due Thurs Oct 6 11:59 pm 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: Library of Congress WWII Rumor…
Unit B Lab: 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. Some…
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! This assignment helps us achieve learning goal 3 communicate in writing analyses of critical questions about cultural…
Create an Introductory Post on our Private Blog
For this assignment, you will write your first blog post: introduce yourself to the class! Tell us about yourself and also your favorite movie/TV/song/video game. The basic parameters for the assignment follow. Do not panic if you have technical difficulties.…
Join Our Learning Community on a Blog
This semester our learning community will use a private blog for discussion of class readings, websites, and videos. No one outside the class will have permission to join/read/participate. This is a fundamental requirement for the course–you can’t pass the class…
Personal Blog: Landing Page & Menu
For a website to convey information effectively, it needs to be well-organized. (Check out these tips on creating a website or blog.) For this assignment, student blogs/websites need: A landing page that somehow articulates what this site is. The landing…
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 websites with tips on creating a blog! Creating your web presence How to Write a Blog…