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Do you have students work with timelines in class? Do you teach surveys, or long texts that have substantial narrative components unfolding over time? Have you used Northwestern University's Knight Lab's Timeline JS? I am developing an assignment that uses Timeline JS to recreate a novel with enriched digital resources. TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone …
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Have you used Timeline JS to recreate a novel with enriched digital resources? I am testing what this might look like in an epistolary context, using Frances Burney's Evelina. By sharing the google sheet on which the timeline is based, students could be assigned letters or chapters to add--some things I've discovered so far are that you …
Materials for my two sessions are available in a google drive folder here. If you want easier access to the google doc on using google drive (very meta, I know!), I've made it public to anyone in the world to view; here's a link to it, and it's also embedded below. Now that I've put …
Ever wonder how web-based tools and text-based analysis intersect? Come find out how to analyze literature (and text more broadly understood) using a variety of online tools that have minimal learning curves. I will introduce you to a manageable number of such tools--Voyant, Mandala browser, ManyEyes, and others--and then we will experiment with them as …
This year's Innovations conference is nigh upon us, and I'll be presenting in the 10:30 1:00-2:30 workshop slot before after lunch to my faculty colleagues. The topic? Google Takes Over, But WordPress is Waiting: Sites, Blogs, and Calendars. Please swing by if you have questions, want to play around with Google Sites and WordPress, or learn …
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Tonya Howe 