Week 5: Games and Making

Visualization

Post your visualization to the website by 9am EDT, Monday, July 8. Use the Visualization category. This can be a link to a map, timeline, network diagram, text analysis, annotation … really, anything that will bring some sort of visual, interactive element to your final project.

Lunch Discussion #1

Post a link to the reading and your conversation starter in the Teams document by 5pm Wednesday, July 3.



Monday, July 1

9:15–9:45am EDT: Monday Check-In

10am-Noon EDT: Guest Speaker: Greg Lord – DH and Video Games (OPEN)

Video games can be seen as interactive narrative structures, and this is well suited to the Digital Humanities. While some games can communicate concepts of literature and history, other times we use the tools that are used to create games to develop virtual worlds to visualize our research. Today, Greg Lord, Software Developer and Designer, will talk about his work with games and VR.

1pm-??? EDT: Crowdsourced Oregon Trail (DHF and Special Collections Interns)

Oregon Trail is the ultimate test of our ability to work together! Will we make it to Oregon? Or perish along the way?

Wednesday, July 3

9:30am-Noon EDT: Field trip: Innovation and Creativity Lab (West Building)

We’ll spend the morning getting to know the Innovation and Creativity Lab (ICL) in the West Building!

Thursday, July 4 & Friday, July 5

College closed

 

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