Digital East St. Louis Project -Dr. Jess DeSpain East St. Louis -Population decreased 82,3666 in 1950 to 27,066 in 2010. -Source of Project Funding: National Science Foundation ITEST Purpose of Digital East St. Louis Project is to attract East St. Louis natives, who largely constitute under-represented groups, into STEM Project Overview: -Develop […]
Continue readingLead by Dr. Jessica DeSpain, The Wide Wide World Project, featuring students Ben Ostermeier, Elizabeth Korinke, and Gabby Borders The Wide, Wide World Digital Edition is a long-running project devoted to cataloging the 174 editions of a nineteenth century bestselling novel: The Wide, Wide World. Students will discuss their involvement with the project, what they […]
Continue readingThe Interdisciplinary Research and Informatics Scholarship (IRIS) Center (siueiris.com/) is a facility designed to support individual and collaborative scholarship at faculty and student levels that applies digital content as a primary methodology. IRIS facilitates cross-disciplinary and collaborative projects that involve applications, enhancements, or re-conceptualizations of technology in the humanities and social sciences. The IRIS Center […]
Continue readingBring your laptops! I’ll walk you through the basic steps to setting up an Omeka site for digital archiving, anthologizing, and exhibiting, and we’ll discuss possible pedagogical uses and best practices. Handouts: exhibitassignment Using Omeka Slides available on SlideShare: Introducing Omeka from Jessica DeSpain
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