This schedule may change depending on class needs. Please check here if you have questions about the schedule or have missed class.
Some links (especially for tutorials) are not yet live and will be added as the semester goes along.
Week 1: Introductions
W Welcome, introductions
F Sign up for course blog and write an intro post by today (1 token)
Week 2: Jan 20-24
What is DH?
W Due before class:
- The Digital Humanities: a Primer (selections) on Canvas
- Mark Sample, “The Digital Humanities is Not about Building, It’s about Sharing”
- Kim Gallon, “Making the Case for the Black Digital Humanities”
W In Class: Discussion, analysis of various projects
Week 3: Jan 27-31
Text Analysis Part 1
T 9pm blog posts due
- KP, SJ
W Due before class:
- Sinclair & Rockwell, “Text Analysis and Visualization” on Canvas
- “A Textual Analysis of the Hunger Games”
- “Can you identify an author by how often they use the word “the”?”
- Projects: what can you learn? what are the limits?
- Digital History: Fugitive Slave Advertisements esp text mining and topic modelling sections
- Early DH project Valley of the Shadow description
- Valley of the Shadow text mapping unit
- added 1/22: check out Lincoln Logarithms and Textmining African American short stories sites from last class session
- Download test corpus (1 token if downloaded before class; link 1/23)
- Respond to blog posts
W In class: Discussions, tutorial for Voyant (link 1/23)
F Due on course blog Voyant tutorial assignment (link 1/23)
Week 4: Feb 2-7
Text Analysis Part 2 + Metadata
T 9pm blog posts due
- AC, GR
W Due before class:
- Paige Morgan, “This Talk Doesn’t Have a Name”
- Download proper version of AntConc for your computer http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/ & movie reviews dataset for class (zip file of movie reviews) (1 token for set up before class)
- Hotz, Robert Lee Hotz, “Metadata Can Expose Person’s Identity Even Without Name.” Wall Street Journal, January 30, 2015 [if you hit a paywall click here instead]
- Stanford University introduction to Metadata (be sure to click through links to read Part 1 & Part 2!!)
- Visit the Photogrammar Project: read the first page
- then click on Labs and then Metadata Dashboard
- play around — what do you discover? how is the metadata driving your discovery?
- Respond to blog posts
W In class: Discussion, AntConc tutorial, metadata activities
F Due on course blog AntConc tutorial assignment
Week 5: Feb 9-14
Data, Dataviz, Domains
T 9pm blog posts due
- SJ, KP
W Due before class:
- Albert Cairo, The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization, introduction only (through p. xxi)
selections on Canvas(updated 2/4) - D’Ignazio and Klein, Data Feminism, Chapter 2
- George H. Williams, “Disability, Universal Design, and the Digital Humanities,”
- Visit Republic of Letters project: watch the video, then visit the Benjamin Franklin and Voltaire case studies.
- Visit U. S. Gun Deaths project
- Download Tableau Public software and dataset for Tableau tutorial (1 token if have it by class) (updated 2/10)
- Respond to blog posts
W In class: Discussion, AntConc tutorial from last week, Tableau tutorial (if time), customize domains (updated 2/10)
F Due on course blog Antconc tutorial, Tableau tutorial, your domain URL (theme+image+menu+introductory text should be there) (updated 2/10)
Week 6: Feb 16-21
Mapping & Spatial Humanities
T 9pm blog posts due
- CF & AC
W Due before class:
- Zephyr Frank, “Spatial History as Scholarly Practice” on Canvas
- Visit and explore Richard Pryor’s Peoria
- Visit and explore Visualizing Emancipation
- Visit and explore Orbis
- Download & install Tableau Public software and dataset for Tableau tutorial (1 token if have it by class) (updated 2/17, a repeat from 2/10 bc of snow day)
- Respond to blog posts
W In class: discussion, mapping tutorials with Palladio & Tableau
F Due on course blog mapping tutorial and Tableau tutorial postponed from last week (updated 2/10, 2/18)
Week 7: Feb 23-28
Network Analysis
T 9pm blog posts due
W Due before class:
- Scott Weingart, “Demystifying Networks”
- Kieran Healy, “Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere“
- Star Wars Network Viz
- Visit Immersion Tool
- Visit the Palladio tool project
- Download the dataset for the in-class tutorial (1 token)
Respond to blog posts
W In class: discussion, Palladio network analysis tutorial (NOTE the link to the Palladio tool is dead — use this link to Palladio instead
F Due on course blog (updated 2/26):
- Palladio network analysis tutorial
- Revise (exchange a token) any other Incomplete tutorial or blog post
Week 8: March 2-6
Online Exhibits and Archives 1
T 9pm blog posts due
- CF & GR
W Due before class:
- Read Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas
on Canvas(updated 2/26) - Read Cohick and Hughes selections about Perpetua and Felicitas on Canvas
- Sign up for class Omeka site (1 token by class time: go to site and activate account/update password — check your email!! updated 3/1/2020)
- Visit Projects that use Omeka
- Respond to blog posts
W In class: discussion, Omeka tutorials on adding items and creating collections
F Due on Omeka: items and collections add 3 more items in addition to the one in class (link added 3/4)
Week 9: March 9-13
Online Exhibits and Archives 2
T 9pm blog posts due
- AC & SJ & CF
W Due before class:
- Melissa Terras, Re-use of Digitized [Cultural Heritage] Content
- Jennifer Guiliano & Carolyn Heitman, “Difficult Heritage and the Complexities of Indigenous Data”
- Visit Mukurtu site
- Visit Shelley-Godwin Archives
- Visit Invisible Australians
- Respond to blog posts
W In class: discussion, creating exhibits for Omeka site
F: Omeka exhibits tutorial due online
Spring Break March 16-21
Week 10: March 23-27
Collaboration and Projects
We are moving to ONLINE instruction for this class beginning this week no matter what OU decides:
- If OU face to face classes are *still in session* go to the classroom at 3 pm. I will communicate with you via Canvas or email or text how I will attend virtually
- If OU face to face classes have *all moved online* check your email, texts, and Canvas for instruction about where/how we will meet virtually at 3 pm.
- We will probably NOT meet the full time as a whole class together, but I may have follow ups individually with each of you on the phone or FaceTime during class session so please do not schedule anything else from 3-5:40 Wednesdays.
No matter what I hear you about the need for clear, consistent, regular communication. I promise that if you are engaging in the class, I will be generous and considerate of the challenges and ask that you be generous and considerate of your peers.
If you are feeling stressed, feeling a desire to check out please text me so we can strategize about how to get back on track.
W Due before class:
- Added 3/11: 1 Page on your OU Create site for your digital portfolio; more instructions coming soon. Revise a DT from the student blog OR write up what you learned from using Omeka and link to the Omeka site.
- Group project planning
- Creating a group charter (Click through ALL the links)
- Bring to class list of project ideas:
- what’s your question?
- what’s your dataset?
- what’s your tool(s)/method(s)?
- consider whether you’ve signed up for the course as a Classics/WGS/Letters/History/etc. class
W In class: discuss collaboration, charters, form projects
Thursday March 26 all day: Day of Digital Humanities Symposium at OU. More info TBA. Tokens for attendance. LMK if you want to attend but cannot attend any presentation.
Week 11: March 30-April 3
Code & Coding
T 9pm blog posts due
- GR & CF
W Due before class:
- Tara McPherson, “Why are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation”
- Planet Money, “When Women Stopped Coding”
- (modified 3/25) Project proposals due on Canvas:
- datasets (links if possible)
- research questions
- tools
- a few sentences
- (added 3/25): recommended to revise incompletes from the past!
- Respond to blog posts
W In class: discussion, HTML + CSS tutorial, review of charters
F HTML + CSS tutorial due on course blog Canvas (updated 4/1)
Week 12: April 6-April 10
3D Modeling for Humanities Research 1
T 9pm blog posts due
- KP & AC
W Due before class:
- Sarah Bond, “Digitally Reconstructing the Faces of Ancient Palmyra” (Chrome/Firefox browsers work best)
- Bond, “The Ethics of 3D-Printing Syria’s Cultural Heritage”
- Jentery Sayers, “Prototyping the Past”
Bring a small, interesting object to class for tutorial- Modified 4/2: In lieu of class visit to 3d scanning lab either watch or listen to EITHER:
- Parts 1 & 2 of the lab tour/intro (2 files)
- OR the Photogrammetry intro
- NOTE: these links take you to folders with mp4, mp3, and txt files. mp4=video, mp3=audio, txt is automated transcription to read. Video or audio are your best choices
- Respond to blog posts
W In class: discussion, 3d modeling tutorial, discuss projects; (added 3/25) class visit to 3d scanning lab canceled — instead look for video, possible guest in Zoom chat.)
Week 13: April 13-17
3D Modeling 2 + Projects
T 9pm blog posts due
- SJ & CF
W Due before class:
THINK about how/whether the following sites add to/complicate/change the views you had after the 4/1 readings & discussion.
- (4/8 this reading is now optional) Angel Nieves, “DH as “Disruptive Innovation” for Restorative Social Justice: Virtual Heritage and 3D Reconstructions of South Africa’s Township Histories” on Canvas Files
- 4/8 to reduce workload, the article above is optional. Required is visit the project site for Digital Soweto ’76, an in progress digital immersive project to understand anti-apartheid activism and uprising in the South African township of Soweto
- read the landing page
- read About Soweto 76 3D
- read About the Soweto 76 Archive
- watch the 5 min project video on YouTube (no audio)
- Visit the Book of the Dead in 3D and look at their coffin models on Sketchfab
- Take a tour of ancient Rome in 3D
- Added 4/8 in lieu of our visit to the AR/VR lab (each of these takes just 1-5 minutes:
- Watch this video on Canvas about 3D Palmyra
- Visit the tomb of Queen Nefertiri in the Valley of the Queens in Egypt (spin it around, click in it a lot — see if you can move through the tomb)
- Visit the OU History of Science collection on SketchFab (click on them, spin them around)
- Check out this reconstruction of the Egyptian pyramid site of Saqqara, site of the oldest pyramid (the step pyramid) plus some others smaller than the “great” pyramids at Giza. It’s part of this digital book Constructing the Sacred.
- Added 4/8: Optional: make your own 3d VR viewer out of household objects and then take VR tours using the Google Cardboard iphone app. If you go to the Nefertiri tomb link above, you will see a little mask-like icon in the lower right — use that to view the tomb with the Cardboard viewer. (You can also buy a Google cardboard viewer.)
- Project Milestone #1 due
- Respond to blog posts
W In class: discussion, project milestone review; (added 3/25): visit to AR/VR lab in library canceled — instead look for a video and information about creating a cardboard VR viewer, specific models on Sketchfab.
F Due on course blog 3d Tutorial
Week 14: April 19-24
Games and Gaming
T 9pm blog posts due
- KP & GR & CF
W Due before class:
- Kishonna Gray on race, identity, and stigmatization in XBox Live gaming
- Lowe, “Playing with Antiquity: Videogame Receptions of the Classical World” on Canvas (link added 4/15)
- Project Milestone #2 due
- Respond to blog posts
W In class: discussion, work on projects and digital portfolios
Week 15: April 27-1
Project Presentations
W Due before class:
- Final Projects (note: much of the prep week policy does not apply to 1 day a week courses)
- In class: presentations,
self/peer evaluations
Exam Week: May 4-8
M Digital Portfolios due May 4 if you want to be able to use the token system to revise if necessary.
Th Final Digital Portfolios due May 7.
Project revisions (if necessary, using token system) due May 7.
