Blog post due by Friday, May 31st:
Write up to 500 words describing 1) your interest in the Fellowship program, 2) your project idea(s), and 3) what you hope to learn through the fellowship experience.
Wednesday, May 29th
Readings:
Visconti, Amanda. “A Digital Humanities What, Why, & How”
Burdrick, et al. “Questions & Answers 1: Digital Humanities Fundamentals,” Digital Humanities 122-123.
Burdrick, et al. “Specification 3: Core Competencies in Processes and Methods,” Digital Humanities 132-133.
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Library Lab 025 (Lower Level 1)
- Opening Welcome (Param Bedi, Jill Hallam-Miller, Carrie Pirmann, and Courtney Paddick)
- Introductions: Students introduce themselves and describe their projects.
- Library & IT guests:
- Param Bedi – Vice President, Library and Information Technology
- Ken Flerlage – Assistant Director, Data Analytics
- Research Services (Nancy Frazier, Jill Hallam-Miller, Ben Hoover, Jason Snyder, and Jim Van Fleet)
- Digital Pedagogy and Scholarship (Wes Bernstein, Janine Glathar, Brandon Karcher)
- Christian Howard – Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities (Bucknell Humanities Center)
- Overview of schedule & questions
- Research Process, Part 1
- Keeping a research journal
- Mind mapping
Lunch as a group at the Bison
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Humanities Center/HMH 113)
- Research Process, Part 2 and Project Management
- Project Charter
- Developing a research question and plan
- Conducting an environmental scan
- Creating a timeline
- Zotero
- Trello
- Human Subjects Training
- 3:00-4:00 WordPress introduction
- Create bio on WordPress site
Thursday, May 30th
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
- Meet with your librarian partner (9-10 AM in Research Services offices)
- APP – Nancy Frazier
- Cassie Brown – Jim Van Fleet
- Lily Li – Jason Snyder
- Meredith Newman – Ben Hoover (Carrie will fill in for Ben)
- Morgan McMullen – Jill Hallam-Miller
- Independent work time on preliminary bibliography
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (HMH 006)
- Discussion: What is Digital Scholarship?
- Miriam Posner: How Did They Make That? The Video
Friday, May 31st
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (HMH 113)
- Sharing and discussion of preliminary bibliographies & research findings
- Writing for an audience/web with Brandon Karcher
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
- Independent work time – research / project charter
Homework: Find an example of a digital scholarship project that relates to your topic and incorporates methodologies that you may consider using in your own research. We will discuss these projects on Monday. Use Evaluating Digital Scholarship Projects as a guide for this exercise. Below are some lists of projects you can peruse: