1. Telling Stories with Maps: Digital Mapping in the Humanities
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- Sample 1-week schedule (story maps)
- Sample 2-week schedule (range mapping)
- Sample paper maps of interest to the humanities [Hotchin] [Umentum] [Coolidge]
- Sample digital maps of interest to the humanities [Kahn & Bouie][history of Jeddah]
- An example of a simple story map
- First in-class exercise (making a simple story map)
- Easy story map assignment (adaptable to all humanities disciplines)
- The Five Principles of Effective Storytelling
- Sample Web Map version of material from First Exercise
- Second in-class exercise (options A and B for advanced mapping)
- Video tutorials for second exercise (Mapbox, CartoDB, Zoomify)
- Images for advanced in-class exercise B
- Ancient range-map for Asiatic and Barbary lions (excel spreadsheet) for in-class exercise A
- Selected ancient cities (excel spreadsheet) for in-class exercise A
- Basic Web Page for exercise A (right-click or cntrl-click to download the file rather than opening it)
- Advanced map assignment (adaptable to all humanities disciplines)
- Story and Web map ideas for different humanities disciplines (ongoing google doc)
- An annotatable list of mapping tools in the humanities
- Additional Exercises
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2. Video Composing and Digital Storytelling
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- Sample 2-week schedule
- Sample Digital Storytelling Assignment Sequence (digital-age civics)
- First in-class exercise (rhetorical analysis of digital storytelling projects)
- Sample digital storytelling projects from University of Houston College of Education [“Famine and Emigration” (History)] [“Slimy Diet” (Science)]
[“Macbeth” (Literature)] [“Finding Meaning in Your Work” (Personal Reflection)] - Samantha Morra Digital Storytelling Process
- Second in-class exercise (invention)
- Third in-class exercise (storyboard)
- Fourth in-class exercise (storyboard peer review)
- Video Composing Tutorials
- Video Composing and Digital Storytelling Resources
- Fifth in-class exercise (storytelling project peer review)
- Video Composing and Digital Storytelling_ Resources and Readings
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- Module Overview
- Sample One-Week Schedule
- Sample Two-Week Schedule
- Sample Three-Week Schedule
- Exercise 1: Basic Operations
- Exercise 2: Uses of Literary Metadata
- Exercise 3: Stylometry
- Exercise 4: Thematic Latency and Topic Modeling
- Exercise 5: Visualizing Literature
- Macroanalysis Toolkit
- Literature Archives and Databases
- Readings
- Other Resources
4. Teaching with TEI and Manuscript Transcription (under construction until 5/21/18)
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- Why TEI, with examples of TEI in action
- Tools for using TEI in the humanities (ongoing public google doc)
- Tools and sources for transcription (ongoing public google doc)
- Sample 1 week schedule (transcription only)
- Sample 1 week schedule (TEI only)
- Sample 2 week schedule (transcription + TEI)
- Examples of manuscript transcription
- Easy in-class transcription exercises
- Easy in-class TEI exercise
- Easy take home TEI Assignment (adaptable to all humanities disciplines)
- Advanced in-class transcription and TEI exercise
- Ideas for using TEI in different humanities disciplines (ongoing google doc).
5. Podcasting in the Classroom
- Sample Short Podcasts
- Workshop Slides.
- 2 week (6 Class Period) Schedule including in-class assignments, readings, additional materials, and suggestions
- Submodule 1: Podcasting 101 and Digital Storytelling
- Project Management
- Writing Scripts/Storyboarding Podcasts
- Submodule 2: Gathering Outside Materials and Creating Content
- Multimedia Copyright
- Submodule 3: Technology and Editing Podcast
- Editing & Working with the Podcast Platform
- Handouts and Additional Resources:
- OPTIONAL/Additional Day 4: Interviewing (Oral History Techniques)
- OPTIONAL /Additional Day 2 or Before Beginning Project: Researching Topic
6. Creating Comics
- Why Comics?
- Module Readings
- Download Comic Life 3
- Plasq Website
- Creating Comics Sample 2-week schedule
- In-class Exercises (Week 1)
- Workshop Project (Week 2)
- Workshop Guidelines
- Student Sample 1: Persepolis versus Watchmen (large file)
- Student Sample 2: The Meaning of Media in Persepolis and The Dark Knight Returns (large file)
- Student Sample 3: Moods and Binaries (large file)
- Further Suggestions for Using Comic Life 3 Across Disciplines
- Just for fun: My Teaching Philosophy as a Comic (large file)
7. Interactive Digital Stories in Twine/Inform
Module Materials:
- Introduction
- Twine For Digital Liberal Arts Education
- Planning Worksheet for Twine
- In-Class Exercise for Twine Workshop Time
- Sample 1 Week Project Using Twine
- Sample 2 Week Lesson Plan For Twine
- Training Teachers: How Twine Can Create Teaching Tools
- Sample Project Assignment: Magical Realist Literature Seminar
- Sample Assignment Ideas for Using Twine
Examples
- Sample Story: Destorying History
- Sample Story: Publish or Perish
- More Sample Stories
Technical Tutorials (Twine)
- Introduction for Twine (15 Minutes) – Includes information about formatting fonts, colored text, photos and images.
- Twine Wiki: A wide variety of tech help and teaching information, including K-12 but also undergrad and grad education.
- Teaching With Twine: Similar to a DLA 101 module, this site hosts other tutorials, examples, and lesson plan options for “multimodal writing.”
- Textbook: Teaching Interactive Fiction: If you intend to make Twine an integral part of a project for more than a single unit, this textbook might be a worthwhile read for you and your students.
Technical Tutorials/Information for Advanced Users (Inform 7):
- Technical Tutorial for Inform: If your students already have basic coding skills, they may find the abilities of Inform (with its designations between characters, rooms, and objects that allow you to interact more fully with the environment) is a more satisfying software to learn. With this satisfaction, however, comes longer teaching time, so it is worth thinking through the benefits and drawbacks of each program.
- A Writer’s Guide to Interactive Fiction: Great blog about how Inform can make for excellent adventure games; may be less useful when teaching with Twine since the affordances aren’t all available.
Support for this project was provided by the Great Lakes Colleges Association through its Expanding Collaboration Initiative, made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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