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Welcome back to school, everyone! I know it’s been a long week already.I apologize for the delay in getting the Qerucus site up. It is now ready for you, and you should be able to see the syllabus as well as the modules and assignments (though most of the latter two have not yet been published).
Important: I have been back and forth a bit about tomorrow’s class, and here is what we will be doing:
- I will shortly publish a video recording of my lecture materials. Rather than sit in a crowded room together, please find a quiet place to watch this lecture on your own.
- *don’t come to class at 10:00! Instead, let’s start class at 11:30. I will be in the classroom about 15 minutes early, and you can use that time to ask me questions if you like.
- In the classroom, we will take a few minutes to familiarize ourselves with the computers, go over the syllabus to answer any questions you have, and then do a little project together, which you will hand in on Quercus.
Please also make sure to join the slack discusssion and introduce yourself (see lecture for details
Looking forward to meeting many ofy ou in person tomorrow!
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Dear Students,
My Apologies for a number of very significant errors. While I did publish several announcements last night about today’s class, I did so on last year’s Quercus site. I am gravely sorry for that. I’ve now republished them here… but it is quite, quite late. I will show up on Zoom now, briefly, to talk to you… and perhaps we should do the whole class that way. I’m really quite soorry. Here is the zoom link:
https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/87927835032
Passcode: DHU235
drat. I’m very sorry. I really liked my plan!
Hi Everyone; remember- we will meet in person in the basement computer lab at 11:30AM, but
- please 8watch the pre-recorded lecture* during the time that you would other wise allot to be in class.
- the recording and the accompanying slides are both available on the modules page
We’ll spend the balance of our time tomorrow working on some in-class exercises, to be handed in by the end of the day. See you then!
Hello everyone,I’ve recorded a lecture for you to watch before our class, and added both the recording and my lecture slides to the “Digital Texts” module; Please watch it before class! I’ll be relying on some prior exposure to make class run smoothly.
Meanwhile: we will be doing a bunch of fun work with poems in class. Can you please bring a poem of your choice to class. Please bring a text you actually enjoy, and preferably a text of some subtlety and complexity, so we can use it to think about relatively complex textual issues.
I think our work may take quite a while, and I have to leave by 1:00PM sharp this week, so let’s start earlier than we have for the last two weeks, at 11:10 (11:00 U of T time).
Excited to see you! But please really do watch the lecture and bring a poem!
Hi folks, we’ll have a fully hands-on lesson this week, in preparation for assignment 2. As a result, you should come at 10:00. Please come with a poem and be prepared to discuss it with your classmates, as well as to write about it.See you then!
I imagine there will be lots of questions as you move forward with Assignment #2 over the next week. I’ve set up a channel on slack for such questions. I will make my best effort to respond quickly! However, I’ll be somewhat hard to reach for the next few days – I’ll start replying to things on Sunday.I hope to record a very brief lecture on Elizabethan drama tomorrow morning, and share it with you as soon as I can. If I run out of time, though, I’ll have to do it after I get back
Enjoy your weekend!
Hello everyone,I hope you had a restful holiday. I’ve just noticed that there are several questions in Slack about class times this week.
My apologies, but my plan has been to meet for the whole session, from 10;1. However, I can see that is not a universal expectation.
Therefore: I’ll come at 10, but can reserve the first hour for questions and catch-up, with a more formal beginning at 11. However, we have a lot to do today. I want to help you think about contextualizing and analyzing literature. We’ll do this primarily in 2 ways:
- I want to discuss the genres of Elizabethan drama – the interlude, the morality play, and their relationship to the dramas with which you are more familiar. You’ll need to think hard about these contexts for your upcoming assignment, so please make yourself familiar with the background handout. Pay special attention to the links in the first paragraph.
- I want you to analyze and contextualize Edgar Allen Poe’s “Masque of the Red Death”. We’ll do this collaboratively, so please make sure you have also read this short story carefully (see the syllabus for link).
Finally, I also want to make sure you have an opportunity to use CSS in a sophisticated way for your poem deformation. So bring any questions you might have to class, and I will do my best to answer them.
See you very soon!
Hi everyone,My apologies, I accidentally double-booked myself for 5-6pm today – I only meant to schedule meetings until 5pm. Those of you who are affected, please contact me by email or slack and we can reschedule with an appropriate short extension on the proposal duedate.
Again, sorry!
Today we’ll be getting started with the course project, which involves an introduction to the Omeka content management system (CMS). This announcement gives you the login information for the website. When you get to class, oo to the login page for the DH Omeka site (https://spatial-humanities.library.utoronto.ca/admin/users/login) and sign in with this auth:- user: DHU
235-daytime
- pass: PlagueLitProject
See you shortly!
For the next two weeks, we’re going to be working our way through two excellent, brief online courses form the Map and Data Library. The first one takes about two to three hours, and the second one is slightly longer. Both use tools that are freely available to the U of T community – OpenRefine is an open source “data cleaning” tool developed by Google, while Tableau is a closed-source data visualization tool.The final Reflection assignment is based on these workshops, so you’ll need to do them to complete the assignment.
It will be easiest for you to work through these terrific courses on your own, rather than all gathering together in the classroom at once. This is partly because neither of the programs we need is installed on the lab computers. Therefore you will probably want to work at home, or on your own laptop in the classroom if you have one. Therefore, let’s please do the following:
- I will record and post a brief introductory lecture about data and data cleaning. Please watch at your leisure – you can start the other exercises before it’s posted.
- Work through the OpenRefine course at your own pace. You’ll need to install the tool on your computers; please allow some extra time to do that.
- I will be present in the classroom on Wednesday from 11 to 1 to help you with either OpenRefine or your final project. I’ll keep zoom open as well, and we can use slack too. The classroom itself will be open at 10, so you are welcome to work there.
- Again, I’ll record and post a brief introductory lecture about visualization. This will have some overlap with the excellent Data Viz Part 1 course, which you may want to check out, even though it is not mandatory for our purposes.
- Please work your way through Data Viz Part 2 – Practice with Tableau. This course is genuinely fun and very rewarding. Please do your best to complete the course before class on the 24th.
- We will have a full live class period from 10-1 on Nov. 24. We’ll work our way through an additional data visualization exercise and try to think critically about data representation. I’ll also do my very best to finish early enough to be able to help you with questions you might have about the final assignment.
I’ll see you all oon, and look forward to seeing you in class on Wednesday!
I realize I will have to do a fair amount of setup before our class today, and I can’t get into the classroom before about 10:10. So… please use the time before 10:30 to work on the Tableau course if you haven’t completed it yet, or on your final project if you have. And see you in person around 10 or on zoom at 10:30 or a little bit afterwards.
My windows VM just started an update cycle. I may be even longer than I said.My apologies for the delay; here is the recording of at week’s session! There’s a lot of dead space in the middle, but a few important details right at the end.
https://utoronto.zoom.us/rec/share/QL4WwH-GHAoeNAPA-ZVG95hHZfCI5GfRWOcPtYZ1rMBd-8qo6TX5iRp89ED9vya5.HQxXh5K_2ettaQUe Passcode: 8!Z&.yZ1xx
See yu next week!
Just a note to say I’ve posted a tiny tiny intro lecture for this week’s OpenRefine workshop, and the links are in the Data module. It’s only 7 minutes long so you can easily watch it on the TTC or while eating breakfast. As I said in my last announcement, I’ll be physically present in class today from 11:00-1:00 to talk about either OpenRefine or your final projects, and I will also have Zoom running & try to help you all out there. This is an informal class you will mostly be working on your own,, but I will be around to help out. I’ll have slack running as well! See you there. Hello everyone,There’s lots to talk about today!
This week we will be doing two workshops in a row. The first is on data cleaning and uses the open source OpenRefine tool. It’s pretty fun, but can be a little bit fincky, so come prepared! The second uses the proprietary Tableau software, and is also extremely interesting; Tableau is extremely user-friendly, but the download process is complex, so make sure you do that in advance.
These two workshops are modified versions of the truly excellent workshops from the Map and Data Library, and you can now (as of quite recently!) access these directly on the Map and Data Library Workshops Page. You may in particular want to enroll in the Data Visualization Part 1 Quercus Course and explore it before Thursday, as we will skip over most of that material. Also, if you have trouble during class or miss parts of the lecture, you may find the MDL courses a little easier to do on your own. Tuesday’s class closely follows the content of Cleaning Messy Data with OpenRefine, and Thursday’s is close to Data Visualization Part 2. Feel free to explore these before class if you like, especially if you are worried about keeping up during class.
In any case, everyone should prepare for both workshops today by installing both OpenRefine and Tableau:
- Install OpenRefine using these instructions (this may take a while if Java is not already installed on your computer!)
- Install Tableau on your laptop – Please note that this will not work on Linux and if you don’t have access to a Mac or a Windows machine things become much more complicated (I have to run Tableau in a VM on my own laptop, for instance). Also note that you will have to wait and respond to an email verifying your student ID – this can take a couple of hours so please do htis today rather than waiting until Thursday.
I will also be posting links to some file downloads soon – Please be on the lookout for that.
I have read everyone’s Reflection 1 and just need to make sure my grades are consistent. I hope to have them back to you before class, but may have to wait till afterwards. Assignment 2 is coming! Hopefully by Thursday. I think all of the in-class assignments have been handed back, though there are more coming this week and I will likely fall a bit behind on those.
For your final project, I have created a series of consultation appointments in Quercus. The time slots are from 11:00-14:00 Wednesday and Thursday, and from 12:00-14:00 on Friday, in 10 minute intervals. Please sign up for one of these.
Hi Folks!
Drat, I forgot to send this off earlier! So… let’s spend the first 30 minutes of class reading this short story: http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/last-flight-doctor-ain/
Meet at 2:40 to discuss it! Think about genre, conventions of the text, role of the plague, ad how all ofit differs from “Masque of the Red Death”. See you then!!!
Hi Everyone, We’ll be spending tomorrow’s class prepping for assignment 2. So, please read the assignment and the associated handout carefully (see my last announcement for links!), and also it might be a good idea to take a look at this brief discussion of Elizabethan theatre practices. See you in the afternoon! I realize I forgot to send out an announcement asking you to read something for today – and I further realize that due to a bug, several classes were missing from the syllabus!!!! In retrospect I realize that someone called my attention to this, but I failed to inspect the version that you see and didn’t understand the issue..SO, please take a look at the readings listed here, under May 18. he Today will, I think, mostly be an assisted reading day.
If you’ve read the assignment package, you should know that this assignment will be a lot easier if you use a modern text editor. If you’ve never used one before, I would advise downloading Visual Studio Code before class today!
See you soon!
Hey everyone, I am finally getting started marking and I think I should get all the way through your assignments from Tuesday. Let’s start class a little late today, say 2:30. I’ll turn the zoom call on but spend those first 20 minutes thinking about reflection 2: in particular, what analysis do you want to make? That is, what interesting things do you have to say about the poem, and how does that impact what deformation you choose to make?
Hey, sorry for the delay, class exercise has now been returned, nice work, I’ll discuss in class (around 230 remember!)Welcome, everyone, to WDW235! I’m looking forward to meeting you all very soon. The Quercus website is now live, and we will be meeting synchronously Tuesday at 2pm Using Zoom. Please turn your video off when you connect to the classroom, as otherwise bandwidth will be a real problem. Since I won’t be able to see your faces, I’d really appreciate it if you could add a profile picture so that I can tell you’re a human being. The instructions for doing so are here.
I’ll also be asking you to join Slack for conversations. Be sure to download the desktop app, which is somewhat easier to usee than the browser-based version.
I’m very much looking forward to this class, which I’ll be teaching for the fourth time. I normally use lower-level tools than we’ll be using in this course (that is, I tend to program in a text-based environment, rather than using these graphic user interfaces), so I’m looking forward to exploring some of these amazing DH projects with you.
There will be many more details forthcoming, both in class and on the website.
See you in class tomorrow.
Lecture notes Are in the “Lectures” folder in Quercus, and will in general be there. I’m also trying to use Modules this term, but that’s a bit of an experiment and I may not always update right away..When viewing in Quercus, the lecture may be a bit cramped. Press “F” to toggle full-screen mode, and use your browser’s built-in zoom controls (usually Control-plus / Control-minus, or on Apple machines, use the squiggly Command key instead of Control.
- Exploring the files in the Twine folder on Quercus;
- Perhaps reading a little bit about Twine, or Exploring the Twine interface, or perhaps downloading the desktop client if you prefer to run it that way.
And in preparation for class, here is the hand-in link for your in-class assignment.
These files are also all linked from the “Plague Literature” module, listed on the Mdules page of the quercus site.
Hey everyone,
I think I sent out a bad link in the last announcement. We are here: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/83160746745 (Password: 328737)
We’ll be using it in class today. Here is the link again. About 10 of you have signed up so far but the more who have done it before class, the better. Thanks!
I’m having some technical difficulties with video recordings so unfortunately you will have to sit through lecture live today. My apologies!
We’re going to be practicing with the Omeka framework today. It is a little bit difficult to navigate so it might be useful for you to at least login before class and take a look around. You will be sharing a login with others, which I’m afraid can be a bit frustrating, but as I don’t have admin access to the site this is the best I can do for now (I may make some changes later if I’m able to). Login data is also a bit out of date but you should be able to figure it out :-)
- login here: https://spatial-humanities.library.utoronto.ca/admin/users/login
- Username: WDW235-2019-evening
- Password: 2019-evening
Thanks!
We are entering a part of the class in which we will really be missing the special classroom we normally have! For today’s class, we’ll be using the public version of the Tableau Desktop software. We’ll walk through some basic visualization examples, but it will definitely be slower than it normally would and you will have to work more independently than otherwise would be the case.
Next class we will take these skills and apply them to some slightly more interesting data
To prepare for this afternoons’s class,
- Download the Tableau Public software You’ll need a mac of windows computer, or a windows virtual machine on linux (I had a bit of trouble with my license key so I will be coming to you live from windows land)
- Download the workshop example data files and unzip them. Be sure you know how to find them again (probably in you
Downloadsfolder) - Create an account at Tableau by clicking on the “Sign Up” Button here
Though proprietary and a bit evil, Tableau is an immensely powerful tool and totally worth getting to know. You may find it comes in handy in other contexts.
Oops, forgot to tell you about some stuff you need to download for today’s class!- Please download and install the OpenRefine Software! It should be compatible with everyone’s laptops, unlike Tableau!
- Please go to the Maps & Data Library website and download “WorkshopFiles.zip” fro mthis address
Also, there may be an issue with video in today’s class… which will be somewhat difficult if it turns out to be ture! If so, we’ll muddle through as best we can.
They’re on Quercus (just remembered to upload now)
Just a quick note that the first assignment is now online. Please take a look before class today, and esp. look for any errors or confusion so I can correct them! Had some trouble getting lecture notes online in their natural environment but you can find a PDF here in Quercus for now. You will likely want to follow along – we will probably skip some stuff today in favour of an async presentation in the next 36 hours. Sorry for the repeated technical issues (irony is fully appreciated). We’ll have to do class live today. Before class starts, please take time to install a text editor and open it up/explore. As I mention elsewhere, I strongly recommend Visual Studio Code and a Live Preview Extension (if you like, you can also install the History Hack Pack, which I maintain for use in HIS393; but it has a lot of stuff you won’t need for this assignment or for this class).Getting VS Code installed is probably the best use you can make of your time. You might also want to download and unzip the files for Assignment 2.
Today we’ll be walking through the assignment with a different poem as an example. Please download al-kolera.zip from the “Handouts” folder in the Quercus files. Thanks! Shoot! I forgot to announce this except in slack – lectures are online here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLY-W2GKX2ZKWlJa7auAkC__nAP2GVrQUWhy don’t we start class a little late, say 2:30, so you have time to watch these first.
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Hello class,I have just realized that the syllabus is missing the readings for tomorrow. My apologies!
Please read Edgar Allen Poe’s short story The Masque of the Red Death and also please make at least an attempt at the more difficult The Meaning of Contagion by Margaret Pelling (link is to a folder in Quercus). Lectures to follow around noon though I’ll also make some more specific announcements about the plan for the day.
See you soon!
Slides from yesterday’s lecture should now display more-or-less as expected; had some trouble w/ local images which has now been debugged :-)
The Reflection assignment, which we will discuss more on Wednesday, is now up on both Quercus and the course website.
We will definitely be taking time to discuss tomorrow’s readings in class, so please make sure you actually read them.
- Miriam Posner’s blog post discusses a number of projects – please be sure to follow the (many) links whenever you can (some of them have aged a bit and are broken). Think about where your own interests lie.
- Ruecker & Galey’s piece interweaves a numbrer of themes. You yourself may not be especially interested in “how DH project should count when someone comes up for tenure”, which is clearly one motivation of the essay, but the other themes will be relevant to many of you. You may find it a bit complex or convoluted, but please persevere. You may find the going easier if you think about the following:
- The discussion of design (pp. 405-07 and throughout) in many ways hinges on Winner’s arguments in “Do Artifacts Have Politics”, discussed on p. 406 and 407. Do you best to understand the main points.
- How should we understand the criteria for compelling arguments, which they summarize as “contestability, defensibility, and substantivity” (p.412ff)?
- What do the authors mean when they suggest that digital objects can “reify an argument” (p.414)?
- the original TextArc is no longer live but this cool partial replica can still be found (code here)
Today’s class will be much less lecture-y, instead comprising a mix of discussion and workshopping. Here’s the approximate outline:
- discussion of today’s readings, with an emphasis on deformance. Please spend some time thinking about the readings and any questions you might want to ask. Consider the following:
- why do the authors decide to use this new (made-up) word “deformance”?
- what does this all have to do with technology (that is, why are we discussing here)?
- workshopping with xml/xslt and TEI. You will want to read the handout and the assignment
- You’ll need to navigate to the online xslt editor and paste in the code from the assignment.
I think this will be fun today!
I’ve published a page o n the website with some information about XML and TEI:
https://q.utoronto.ca/courses/127426/pages/introduction-to-xml-xslt-tei-and-html-long
Much of this is recapitulated in the handout, but we’ll likely use this page a template for our lecture today, so you might want toread it.
Hello everyone,
I wanted to let you know that tonight’s class will be, in some ways, a rehash of last week at a higher level. So
- Make sure you’ve read the deformance piece this time! We’ll discuss again.
- I’ve put together a somewhat more realistic example of TEI and, incidentally, deformance. You can see it in action online here, and you can browse the actual code here. We will be examining it in more detail tonight, and you may understand it a lot better if you look at it first. You can easily check it out by pasting the code into the XML fiddle site, maybe using he “raw” view of the xsl stylesheet and the full xml text to copy it more easily.
it wasn’t really an announcement, but a more detailed introduction to XML, XSLT, and HTML than we got in class. I’ll distribute a bit more info soon – maybe at the end of the day – but I wanted to get this off ASAP so you could make use of it for you assignment!
here’s the code for today Hello Everyone,This is a friendly reminder to you all to do your work before class. Tomorrow we’ll be discussing these texts and videos:
- William Noel, “Revealing the Lost Codex of Archimedes” (2012). [TED TALK]
- Bethany Nowviskie, “Digital Humanities in the Anthropocene”
- Eira Tansey, “When the Unbearable Becomes Inevitable: Archives and Climate Change” (2017).
don’t “forget” to read them!
In addition, some announcements:
- Really sorry about your assignments still not being marked. Working on it! Some administrative confusion on my end.
- Some of you have been asking me about citation styles. I don’t have strong preferences but I do strongly encourage you to use citation-management software, which will make your life so much easier. I recorded this short video introductio nto Zotero which I encourage you to watch.
- You have hopefully started work on your second assignment. Good! If you’re running into trouble, please use the discussion forum that I’ve set up for the assignment. And if you’re feeling confident, perhaps head over to the discussion anyway to help your classmates out.
- Next week we’ll be visiting the Fisher Rare Books Library. It will be really fun! The room we’re using can only accomodate 20 students at a time, and the library closes at 8, so we will do this trip in two separate groups and potentially end class an hour early and bundle you off home for the holiday weekend (though I’ll be around after 8 to answer questions). I’ve made a sign-up sheet which you can find in the course calendar on Quercus. Please use it! This is my first time making such a sign-up sheet, so I hope it works :-)
Enjoy the readings and see you in class!
In this class we have a shared login to the local Omeka installation. We’ll talk more about protocols in class today. In this announcement, which should only be visible to the class, I’m giving you the login info:- Username:
WDW235-2019-evening - Password:
2019-evening
Please feel free to login and look around before class, but UNDER NO CIRCUNSTANCES MODIFY ANY RESOURCES THAT YOU FIND THERE. Again, we’ll learn how to use Omeka starting in class today.
A reminder that we will be meeting in the Fisher Library tonight at 6:00 or at 7:00. Some details:
- library is just south of Robarts, and is physically attached to it; here’s a map
- Please arrive early as you will need to check your bags into the library lockers before heading down. The 7:00 group will need to finish up at about 7:50 and will start promptly at 7:00, not at 7:10 – please do not come late
- If you haven’t signed up yet, then you are in the 7:00 group –the 6:00 group is full
- bring a notebook to jot down your thoughts, and a phone to take pictures if you wish.
- please come with thoughts and questions – these are special texts and it’s a real privilege to see them. Show your appreciation to the library by engaging thoughtfully and actively.
See you there, either at 6 or at 7!
Not sure whether I announced formally that consultation signups have been live since Friday. Follow these instructionsss to be sure that you have the course calendar activated in Quercus, and then please sign up – only a few ooof you have done so so far, and the due date is coming up.Remember that we Have a visit tonight form Prof. Alexandra Bolintineanu, who teaches the day class. She will be with us for about 30-45 minutes at the beginning of class. It will be important for you to have browsed extensively in the Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat. You should know what “Samizdat” means and hopefully have some questions for Prof. B. about her presentation. Afterwards we will talk a bit more about Omeka and we’ll take the last hour as time to make progress on your presentations.
I have finally handed back assignment 1, as I believe all of you are aware. I had hoped to be a bit further with Assignment 2 than I am; it will certainly be several days before I can get it back to you. I’ve read about a quarter of your papers so far and I’m pretty pleased with what you’ve done!
If you skipped your appointment with me today… Don’t do that again!
See you this afternoon.
Hello everyone! Welcome back!This week we have the first of two sequential – and exciting – workshops with Maps and Data Librarian Kelly Schulz. This week’s workshop is on data cleaning; you can see the materials online here, though our workshop won’t follow this outline precisely.
Please arrive at Robarts Library promptly at 6:00PM. We’ll be using the classroom on the 4th floor of Robarts, and the easiest way to get there wil lbe to take the escalator to the 4th floor; at the top of the escalator you’ll see a whiteboard with an arrow pointing the way in.
I’ll look forward to seeing you all there – please don’t neglect to come!
Remember! We’re meeting in Robarts again tonight! See you there!!Due a week from today. link:
https://q.utoronto.ca/courses/123949/assignments/250828
See you all tomorrow night for the last class of the year. I have fulfilled my promise to bake, but I’m counting on all of you as well!Please take a quick look at your marks. If you see something that seems wrong – e.g., if you have a 0 on an assignment but are sure that you handed it in – please get in touch right away. I believe everything that has been handed in has now been marked.
A few more remarks to follow soon.
Several of you have asked about the word count for the final assignment. My apologies for not clarifying this sooner. As you’ll recall, the assignment asks you to write at least 4 exhibit sections, introduction, book, context, and insights, and to include a works cited section.
Each of those written sections (so, not works cited) should be a minimum of 250-300 words, but at least 1 of those sections should be substantially longer & represent sustained engagement with the text and the issues it raises (probably this will be context or insights, or both, or an extra sectio nthat you add at your own discretion). I’m not able to give an exact word count because the main grading criteria will revolve not around length, but instead around real engagement with an issue that matters. So as you work, you should be focused as much as possible on that fundamental question – “Have I explored an issue that I care about to an extent that I find satisfying?”.
I hope this helps somewhat!
Several of you noticed that the exhibits suddenly disappeared from omeka yesterday afternoon. They appear to have been restored after an unexpected upgrade was triggered. I believe everything is back to normal now.
As I’ve told several of you, I’m planning to be in my office today from 12-2.
I hope you all enjoyed your holiday weekend!Tomorrow’s class is special – instead of meeting in our usual place we have the OpenRefine workshop in the Map and Data Library on the 5th Floor of Robarts. Please make an effort to be on time; I’ll be there before 10 to help you find the classroom.
Please take a look at the Workshop Handout before class tomorrow! You shouln’t need to actually do the downloads unless you plan to work on your own computer, but it might be fun to do a bit of work in advance.
I’ve also returned your reflection 1 – I hope! – please let me know if there are any issues.
Hello everyone, I got this note Monday evening from a student i nanother class. I’m hoping this turns out to belong to one of you!
Hello Prof. Price,
I hope this email finds you well.
Today (June 10th) I was working in the computer lab SS561, and found a charger cord. I saw on the front door that you teach the class that takes place in this lab earlier today (WDW235H1), so I thought it is possible that one of your students left this item behind. I hope you can reach out to your students and inquire if anyone left a charger behind - if someone thinks it is theirs, maybe have them email me with details about the charger (colour, type of device it is for, etc) so I can confirm ownership and get this item back to its rightful owner.
Best wishes,
Hila
At minimum, please read the Drucker reading that is o n the syllabus for today: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/1/000091/000091.html – I hope we can discuss some of the ideas there.It’s Hallowe’en! come in costume if you like!
Come prepared especially to discuss especially and at least figures 1,2,7,14,17. See you soon!
Hoping to give you back your papers before then but need to stadardize the marks properly first.
I think perhaps it doesn’t appear to be completely clear what is due tomorrow; I reproduce here the instructions from the main assignment, which hopefully are clearer in isolation:- A proposal describing, in 200 words or fewer, the object whose story you plan to tell: what it is; why it was banned, by whom, and in what historical context; and how you plan to shape your exhibit. Due <2019-11-01 Fri>
- An annotated bibliography (http://advice.writing.utoronto.ca/types-of-writing/annotated-bibliography/) that contains: links to and descriptions of at least 3 things for your collection; references to and summaries of at least 3 scholarly sources (scholarly print books, scholarly journal articles, scholarly encyclopedia entries). Due <2019-11-01 Fri>
I hope that helps!!
Oops, had hoped to write a more fulsome note but looks like I’m out of time. I’ve uploaded a number of files to quercus for today’s class. Exactly what they’re for wil lbecome more evident later, I hope.
Meanwhile, I have uploaded our texts to voyant tools to save you the trouble – you can access them here:
I’m sorry, I’m a bit late for office hours today due to an illness in my household. I should be there by 1220 at the latest.
There have been a few questions about how to hand the assignment in – I’ve updated the form so it now allows submission of a website URL and a text comment as well. Please use that form and submit the public view of the exhibit.
In the Middle Ages, it was common for royal anniversaries and other great celebrations to be accompanied by an amnesty for prisoners held in royal captivity.
In accordance with this tradition, and in light of the Raptors victory in game 6, I can grant a general extension on the final assignment till Wednesday night, and I plan to cut class short today so that you can get to Nathan Philips Square in time to enjoy the end of the parade if you want.
See you shortly!
There have been several questions about handing in the final assignment, so I must not have been clear. Please hand in a word doc (or similar) at the assignment hand-in page containing:- a link to your Omeka site (make sure the site has been made public, so I can see it!)
- your annotated bibliography
If you’ve already done this, don’t worry about it! Congratulations on finishing and have a great summer!
For those of you with late work, my marks are due tomorrow. Please hand in everything you’d like to have marked by the end of the day Friday! A surprising number of projects are missing from Quercus. Please double-check to be sure you entered a URL there. You don’t want a 0 in that assignment.