Projects
Each year, the Praxis Program fellows take on a particular project to exercise what they have learned throughout the year. Some projects have spanned cohorts, while others were executed in the span of a single. Some projects explored extant vaporware projects in the Lab, while others were inspired by experiments with a more freeform prompt. Explore the list below, presented in chronological order, for more information about each project. Each cohort blogs their progress on the Scholars' Lab blog, where you can find more writings about the projects as they have developed. Further publications, writings, or awards are so noted.Prism
Prism is a tool for collaborative interpretation of texts. Imagined as the digital instantiation of a vaporware game that was played in the Scholars' Lab and SpecLab, the site allows users to upload documents for a group to interpret along various interpretive axes. The tool has seen significant use in K-12 classrooms. More information can be found at the project's homepage.

2011-2012
- Alex Gil
- Brooke Lestock
- Lindsay O'Connor
- Sarah Storti
- Annie Swafford
- Ed Triplett
2012-2013
- Shane Lin
- Claire Maiers
- Cecilia Márquez
- Gwen Nally
- Chris Peck
- Brandon Walsh
Publications
- Crowdsourcing Individual Interpretations: Between Microtasking and Macrotasking,” Brandon Walsh; Claire Maiers; Gwen Nally; Jeremy Boggs; Literary and Linguistic Computing 2014; doi: 10.1093/llc/fqu030.
- “Prism,” under the “Poetry” keyword in Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments.
- Walsh, Brandon, 'Prism and Reading's Shape,' in Pataphysics Then & Now, (under submission, Penn State UP).