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Week 11 - Project work#

Class this week will be a mix of structured activities and unstructured work time to advance your project’s progress.

Tuesday, November 19#

  • icebreaker:
  • Wireframing + rapid prototyping
    • What are your pieces of content? What pages? Visualizations?
    • How do you want to organize/structure your site?
    • What affordances do you want your site to have?
    • Think back to some of the projects we looked at this term. What did you like or dislike?
  • WordPress

Due for Thursday:#

  • Prepare 500 words of text for peer review on Thursday. Post to your site for your classmates to view.

Thursday, November 21#

  • Icebreaker:

  • Essay content peer review time!

  • Groups: your table!

  • Peer review process:

    • Think of 1-2 questions you have for your peer reviewer.
    • Before discussing, take time to carefully read their text.
    • Your discussion should address the following:
      • What is the role of this text in the project?
      • Is it clear? Can you understand it at a sentence level and a project level?
      • What questions do you have about this topic? What do you want to see answered in this project?
      • Where does this text go on the website? Any suggestions?
      • How can you help answer the questions of the project creator?

Week 11 Assignments - Due Tuesday after break at 12pm#

Blog post #11#

In preparation to present your project in class, draft a 5 minute talk. You have an option when turning this in! It can be a blog post or an audio or video file that you turn in via Canvas. It can be hard to say everything you want to say in 5 minutes! Try to address the following:

  • What is your project about? What are your research questions?
  • Why did you select this topic?
  • Where is the data from? What challenges did you face finding data or doing research on this topic?
  • What did you learn about your topic? How did the analysis methods help? What did you learn about digital culture and information as it relates to your topic?
  • What would you do differently OR what are the future directions of this project?

Specs:

  • Due Tuesday at 12pm.
  • Can be a WordPress post, or an audio/video file submitted directly on Canvas.
  • Should be the equivalent of 5 minutes of speaking.
  • Free from grammatical errors, typos.
  • Credit and link out to sources when appropriate. I won't require that you use a certain citation style, but you should be in the habit of crediting sources and using in-text links. If you feel better about using a formal citation style, go for it!