Timelines are important components of humanities education and research. Whether charting the transmission of knowledge or the march of history, timelines allow us to visualize vast periods of time into easy-to-read infographics. With this workshop, we will create our own timeline visualizations using Timemapper, a free and accessible timeline software. The skills you learn here will allow you to assign your students new explorations into the humanities and social sciences.

Free but registration requested. No technical expertise required.

Location: Main Library 1015 A

Time: 3-4:45

Date: Thursday, 12/8

Have you ever wanted to incorporate archival research into your classroom? With Omeka’s free archiving platform, you can assign students to upload content and create their own archive. This easy-to-use platform offers exciting possibilities for your lesson plans, allowing students to explore original material using the Dublin Core metadata standards used by libraries and museums for digital content. In this two-hour workshop, we will discuss what Dublin Core is and how to access and use Omeka. Each participant will bring three digital items (music, video, PDFs, texts) to begin creating an original archive, and we will discuss the various metadata categories as well as the plug-ins offered by Omeka.

Free but registration requested (not required). No technical expertise required.
Location: Obermann Center Library
Time: 3-4:45
Date: 12/1
Materials: please bring a laptop computer and create a free account at Omeka

If you have ever wished you could have your students build a multi-media project for your class but weren’t sure how to do it, this workshop is for you! We will discuss the basics of Scalar, a free software platform for innovative digital publishing. With Scalar, you can add photos, text, music, videos, and other media to an essay, creating a hyperlinked rhizomatic publication that fully immerses the reader in a topic through a multitude of media. Even more exciting, Scalar allows you to visualize your materials, and we will consider the ways that adding quantitative data to your project’s benefits or detracts from your work. Because Scalar is so widely adopted by online repositories such as Hathi Trust, you can access the materials in the workshop or bring your own. We will also discuss the pedagogical possibilities for Scalar and look at some sample student projects.

Free but registration suggested: register here.
No technical expertise required.
Location: Library 1015 A
Time: 3-4:45
Date: 11/10

Social Network Analysis Using Cytoscape

Please join us on October 27th, from 3-5 pm, for our third workshop in the “Tinkering Humanist” series. Social network analysis is one of the growing areas in Digital Humanities research. Scholars and teachers are increasingly looking for easy-to-use software to visualize connections and relationships. In this workshop, you will learn the basic theory behind social network analysis including how to generate and insert data. We will create visualizations of some data provided by the instructor or you can bring your own! We will conclude by considering the pedagogical possibilities of social network analysis for the humanities classroom.

Please register here (although it is not required to attend): HERE

Location: Obermann Center

Materials: laptop computer