Our projects for this semester are now posted.
James Farmer Lectures Project – http://jamesfarmerlectures.umwblogs.org
UMW Buildings Project – http://buildings.umwblogs.org/
James Monroe Museum Political Cartoons – http://jmpolitoons.umwhistory.org/
Southeast Virginia Historical Markers – http://sevamarkers.umwblogs.org/
Let us know what you think!
Group Contract criteria:
quality of original proposal, need to make changes
Group Grade criteria:
cohesion of different elements, ease of navigation (UX — information architecture), citations, appeal to target audience, accuracy, met the terms of the contract, creativity, proofreading
Individual Grade criteria:
contribution to project (perhaps in relation to other), enthusiasm/passion/engagement, quality of contributions, play well with others, growth, willingness to learn, timeliness
Remember that Tuesday we’ll be discussing “Text Mining, N-Grams and Searching in History”. Come ready to talk about these ideas.
Reading/Viewing: Peter Norvig talk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU8DcBF-qo4 – Skim); Carr, Is Google Making Us Stupid? (2008); Dan Cohen, “From Babel to Knowledge” (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march06/cohen/03cohen.html); William Turkel, “Searching for History,” Digital History Hacks (12 Oct 2006). “Applying Quantitative Analysis to Classic Lit,” Wired, Dec. 2009; Cohen, Google Books, Ngrams and Culturomics; Rob Nelson, Mining the Dispatch.
Revised contracts are now due Friday at noon. Create a new Google Doc and share it with me. [And let me know that your group is ready for me to look at it.]
For those who have been asking about my expectations for posting and comments:
Feel free to post and comment more often and more broadly.
