Digital Scholarship
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How to Make a Story Map
Story Map JS is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events. It allows users to incorporate images, sound, video, and text with geographically based storytelling. You can see Story Map JS at work in these samples: Southern Literary Trail (Georgia Humanities) Hockey, Hip Hop, and other Green Line Highlights (Minnesota Post) Story Map in the Classroom: Why you might use Story Map to Teach: Story Map can communicate location-based concepts or narratives integrating text, images, video, and sound sources. Why Students Might Benefit from Making a Story Map in class/as an assignment: Students can practice constructing coherent narratives with diverse source bases. Story…
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How to make a Timeline with Timeline JS
Timeline JS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. Beginners can create a timeline using nothing more than a Google spreadsheet. More experienced makers can use json to customize timelines while keeping its core functionality. Timelines can integrate text with images, maps, videos, websites, etc. You can see Timeline JS at work in these sample Timelines: Bulger on Trial (WBUR) Revolutionary User Interfaces (Knight Lab) Timeline JS in the Classroom: Why you might use Timeline JS to Teach: Timeline can integrate images, text, websites, and more to clearly communicate concepts and stories. Timeline JS can present information chronologically or can be used to create non-chronological narratives in the form of storybooks or virtual museums. Why Students Might Benefit from Making a Timeline…
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Exploring literature with Historypin
This semester, students in Sarah Bilston’s Victorian Short Fiction class read a Charles Dickens short story, “The Bloomsbury Christening,” which follows the irascible Mr. Nicodemus Dumps on a trek through Victorian London. Then, with help from their professor and RIT staff, students used a digital tool to create a map of the character’s journey. In the digital humanities, scholars use technology to engage with history, literature, and the arts. Digital humanities assignments and projects also expand the possibilities of undergraduate scholarship; they invite students to explore texts in new ways, to relate personally to course material, and to gain experience writing for a public audience. For this digital humanities assignment,…
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Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Resources
Here are some tips and resources that will help you take part in our Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Why This Matters: According to Art+Feminism: “Less than 10% of Wikipedia’s editors identify as cis or trans women. And the editors that do identify as women are more likely than men to have their edits reverted.” (read more on this here) This severely affects the kinds of representations Wikipedia creates, and the knowledge it produces. Art+Feminism is part of a larger effort to create greater awareness around issues of diversity and inclusion in open access knowledge sources like Wikipedia. Please be aware that including greater representations of women-identifying artists and feminist organizations on…
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Black History Month Crowdsourcing Event – Edit Wikipedia
Women in Red (WiR) is dedicated to addressing the gender gap in wikipedia entries, turning red links to blue. (Only 17.78% of the English Wikipedia’s biographies are about women). In February 2019, Women in Red is focusing on black women in conjunction with Black History Month. We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about black women, as well as their achievements, writings, organizations, and awards. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in our initiative. Register Before you start editing, make sure you sign up for a Wikipedia account. (From Wikipedia homepage, click “Create account” in upper…