Melissa and I would like to thank all the participants for a wonderful and successful THATCamp! We wish you a wonderful summer. Hopefully we’ll do this again!

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Description of Session: Explore legacy text adventures, look at free TA development software, and collaborate on an example text adventure

We worked through the website textadventures.co.uk to play legacy text adventures, most popularly Zork I so we could develop an understanding of how interactive fiction works. Most TA begin with the player (you) being dropped into a world where the rules are not always apparent and you build an understanding of the rules and the world through your interactions with it. After we got a basic understanding of text adventures from a user’s perspective, we talked briefly about how the interactivity and the users complicity were important in the immersive experience and how this might relate to narrative history or creative writing.  Then, we took a look at Quest, a free interactive fiction development tool that allows novices to publish text adventures. We worked with Quest to create a THATCamp text adventure, creating the rooms, items within the rooms, and exploring how we use conditional constructs (if/else/else if) to interact with the rooms, objects, and players.

Many people were interested in attending SIUE THATCamp 2016, but were unable to do so for various reasons. We’d like to document as much as possible from this unconference so that we and others can return to the shared ideas from these two days. If you are facilitating a session, please do the following:

1. Designate someone to take notes. We’re looking for:
   • Title of session
   • Name of Facilitator
   • 3 major talking points/resources mentioned from the session
   • Anything else you’d like to add is great and a bonus!
2. Afterwards, create a post on the SIUE THATCamp Website (or edit your post if you already had one), and share these notes. You can take a picture of the notes if taken by hand, create a word document, or type in the body of the blog post.
3. We created a Word template in case you’d like to use it: Breakout Session Notes Template

Facilitator: Lora Smallman

Description:

I’ll lead a session on building a digital humanities (DH) toolkit intended especially for beginners. If you’re new to DH, this is a great session to come and get your feet wet. I’ll be using a web-based software called LibGuides to build this toolkit. I’d also like to see veteran DH folks in my session to help with brainstorming what to include in the toolkit. I’d like to devote areas of this guide to:

• Digital Humanities Centers
• SIUE DH Projects
• Great DH articles, especially for beginners to help define the discipline
• Local DH Projects
• Famous DH Projects
• Well-known DH Researchers
• Conferences/Professional Development
• DH pedagogical resources
• Programs of study either at undergrad or grad level
• Digital tools

This is the blank slate we’ll be building up: libguides.siue.edu/digitalhumanities

**Update

Use this google doc to help me brainstorm resources (anyone can edit):

docs.google.com/document/d/1pSVlGOJupsC0riyfMTpDHJRCpfPl9TBCHvM7rpKkiNg/edit?usp=sharing 

Anyone up for early Saturday THATCamp coffee? In true unconference unplanning, I’ll roll in to EITHER the

Sacred Grounds Cafe

or

222 Artisan Cafe

Facilitators:  Nancy Lutz, Diana Nastasia, Sorin Nastasia

New communication technologies have revolutionized the field of human rights, making it possible to create connections between individuals and organizations in a myriad of different ways. This session hopes to collaboratively explore examples of the ways in which social justice groups and other human rights organizations locally, nationally, and internationally are utilizing digital media, and some of the issues and challenges that arise in this process. Depending on participants and their interests and experiences, we will explore specific examples, shared successes and dilemmas, and ways to forge new collaborations between individuals and organizations, both for community work and for teaching.