1 Thursday Jan 21 Introductions
2 Tuesday Jan 26
- “Real Names” Are an Abuse of Power
- The Humanities, Done Digitally
- Do Digital Natives Exist? (video autoplays)
Assignment #1:
- Academic Honesty and Syllabus Quizzes
- create accounts on zotero.org and dropbox.com
- reply to the Intro post on the course blog
- find two examples of metadata in the wild
3 Thursday Jan 28 – Humanities Data
- So You Want to Reuse Digital Heritage Content
- Some Tips for WordPress Beginners
- Is Google Knowledge? (video autoplays)
- Putting Big Data to Good Use
4 Tuesday Feb 02 – Twitter
Assignment #2:
- Identify and review two history accounts on two different social media networks (four total)
- Reply in the comments to Where does history live on the web?
5 Thursday Feb 05 – Wikipedia
Assignment #3:
- Summarize the major issues discussed on the Talk pages of two wikipedia entries for history topics
6 Tuesday Feb 09 – DH Projects
Assignment #4:
Review and compare two of the following DH projects
7 Thursday Feb 11 – DH and Power
8 Tuesday Feb 16 – Digitization
Assignment #5:
- transcribe one page of the 1810 census
9 Thursday Feb 18 – Digital Sources
10 Tuesday Feb 23 – Dataviz I
Assignment #6:
11 Thursday Feb 25 – Dataviz II
12 Tuesday Mar 01
- Class cancelled
13 Thursday Mar 03 – Northern Free Blacks
Assignment #7:
- Northern Free Blacks: The Scholarly Discussion (Blackboard)
14 Tuesday Mar 08 – Employment Patterns
- The Most Laborious and Least Profitable Employments: Urban Free Black Occupational Patterns (Blackboard)
15 Thursday Mar 10 – Housing Patterns
- Lofts, Garrets and Cellars in Blind Alleys and Narrow Courts: Urban Black Housing (Blackboard)
Assignment #8:
Walking tour rough draft
Tuesday Mar 15 Spring Break
Thursday Mar 17 Spring Break
16 Tuesday Mar 22
- Workshop Day
17 Thursday Mar 24 – Dataviz III
18 Tuesday Mar 29
Assignment #9:
Walking tour due
19 Thursday Mar 31 – Networks I
20 Tuesday Apr 05 – Networks II
Assignment #11:
Final project proposal due
21 Thursday Apr 07 – Maps I
22 Tuesday Apr 12 – Maps II
- Workshop Day
23 Thursday Apr 14
Assignment #12:
- One story draft due – 500 words + one Tableau visualization
24 Tuesday Apr 19 – Texts I
25 Thursday Apr 21 – Texts II
26 Tuesday Apr 26
Workshop day
Assignment #13:
Final project draft (see project guidelines for details)
- Process
- Argumentation
- Revised visualization – may be the same visualization from the story draft or a new visualization; must be revised if using the same visualization
27 Thursday Apr 28
Workshop day
28 Tuesday May 03
Workshop day
Final projects due online May 12 3PM