| Class Participation/Pre-Lab Assignments | 20% |
|---|---|
| Digital Tools Assignments: | 35% total, comprised of: |
| Markdown Assignment | 5% |
| StoryMaps/TimeMapper Assignment | 10% |
| TEI/XML Assignment | 10% |
| Cytoscape Assignment | 10% |
| Final Digital Project | 20% |
| Final Response Paper | 10 % |
| Take Home Final Exam | 15% |
All digital tools assignments will be submitted via a pull request in our course GitHub repository. Your final response paper and take-home exam will be submitted via Canvas. You will also use Canvas to post to our weekly discussion boards, which count towards your participation grade.
Digital Tools Assignment #1: Getting Started with Markdown
In this assignment you will compose a blog post discussing a possible resource held in Princeton University’s Special Collections that you might work with for your final project.
Instructions for the Markdown digital tools assignment
Digital Tools Assignment #2: StoryMaps
In this assignment you’ll use your digital source selected from Princeton’s Special Collections and research its context in order to create either a StoryMap related to the source.
Instructions for the StoryMaps digital tools assignment
Digital Tools Assignment #3: XML and TEI
In this assignment, you’ll select a text from your research or from a historical source that interests you and encode it with XML using categories in-keeping with the Text Encoding Initiative standards. You’ll imagine what a future reader might want to discover from your chosen text and develop a tagging schema to render it into useable data.
Instructions for the XML/TEI digital tools assignment
Digital Tools Assignment #4: Cytoscape
In this assignment, you will create a dataset of at least 100 nodes which you will input into Cytoscape for network visualization and analysis. Your dataset may be one we discuss in class, or it may be one that pertains to your final project’s primary source.
Instructions for the Cytoscape digital tools assignment
Final Project Website
You and a partner will work together to research and craft a narrative argument about a source in Princeton University Special Collections. Using a template you’ll copy in our course GitHub repository, you’ll then build and customize a website that presents this source to an educated general reader, thinking through the possibilities of digital storytelling beyond the static page.