Syllabus 2019-2020

Praxis Schedule 2019-2020

Praxis meets officially for three hours once a week during the academic year. The following schedule represents a projection of what the content of those weekly meetings will be. Each session is projected to be roughly 60-120 minutes long, which will allow plenty of time for flexibility and conversation with the group before and after.

Meetings will be the Scholars’ Lab fellows lounge. In general, Praxis will follow the schedule of the academic calendar. So first meetings will be the first week of classes, we will observe holidays and reading days, and we’ll end the last week of classes.

Code lab curriculum - https://github.com/scholarslab/CodeLab

Slides -

Fall - 14 weeks - August 27 - December 6

Three assignments - charter, workshop, grant/project proposal. Goal is to have them develop a portfolio of things at the end of the year both individually and as a group.

Week 1
- Tuesday, August 27th from 1-2 – Fellows Lounge
  - “Praxis - or, what you’re in for,” Brandon;
  - Framing of charter assignment, Brandon
  - Readings assigned
    - Scholars’ Lab charter
    - Scholars’ Lab student program charter
    - Praxis Program charter - (overlaps a lot with the previous one, so I’d just look for the different bits)
    - A Digital Boot Camp for Grad Students in the Humanities by former SLab director Bethany Nowviskie
- Wednesday, August 28th from 1-2 - Fellows Lounge
  - Conversation about Collaboration and Community, Brandon and Amanda Booked
- Wednesday, August 28th from 2-3 - Fellows Lounge
  - Code lab - pep talk
Week 2
- Tuesday, September 3rd from 1-2 - Fellows Lounge
  - Intro to Charters, Ronda Booked
  - Readings Assigned
    - Other Praxis cohort charters, available on the Praxis site - http://praxis.scholarslab.org/charter/. Explore to your heart’s content, but they repeat each other a fair amount. So no need to go overboard - I might pick one or two.
    - And then, if you have time, you might check out one or two of the resources here - http://praxis.scholarslab.org/resources/toward-a-project-charter/. Those are all related to charter development and very worthwhile. Explore at your interest, but the Collaborators’ Bill of Rights and Bethany’s piece are probably the most widely cited.
- Wednesday, September 4th from 1-2 – Fellows Lounge
- Lightning Round of DH Methods and Disciplines. Round 1 - Texts (Alison), Archives (Jeremy), Makerspaces (Ammon); All confirmed.
- Wednesday, September 4th from 2-3 – Fellows Lounge
  - Code lab
    - Homework to be done in advance of this session
Week 3
- Tuesday, September 10th from 1-2 - Fellows Lounge
  - Lightning Round 2 - Maps (Chris/Drew); Augmented Reality / CHI (Arin).VR / CHI (Will). All confirmed.
- Wednesday, September 11th from 1-2 – Fellows Lounge
  - Charter discussion
  - Reading - Blogging documentation if time allows
- Wednesday, September 11th from 2-3 – Fellows Lounge
  - Code lab
Week 4
- Tuesday, September 17th from 1-3 - Fellows Lounge
  - Charter due; discuss charters
  - Reading: Praxis blog posts:
    - I need to write a blog post, Drew MacQueen
    - Project Reviews, Alex Gil
    - Owning Up the Praxis Program, Alex Gil
    - Giving Thanks, Alex Gil
    - Progamming for Prism, Joanna Swafford
    - The Pleasures of Programming, Lindsay O’Connor
    - Preliminary Praxis Charter Ideas, Ed Triplett
    - Processing Praxis, Brooke Lestock
    - A Disclaimer and a Declaration, Sarah Storti
    - Done is the Engine of More., Sarah Storti
    - The Beautiful Truth about Praxis, Sarah Storti
- Wednesday, September 18th from 1-2 - Fellows Lounge
  - Workshop on workshops (Brandon); Framing of Workshop assignment.
  - Reading: Beyond Buttonology: Digital Humanities, Digital Pedagogy, and the ACRL Framework; Jentery Sayers on Low-Tech Approaches to Digital Research
- Wednesday, September 18th from 2-3 – Fellows Lounge
  - Code lab
Week 5
- Tuesday, September 24th, 1-2 – Fellows Lounge
  - Michelle Claibourne and Rebecca Coleman visit to frame the Equity Atlas project Booked
  - Readings Assigned
    - Look over Equity Atlas site
    - Explore 2-3 things in Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments that are useful for your interests.
- Wednesday, September 25th, 1-2 – Fellows Lounge
  - Workshop your concepts based on the assigned readings
  - Readings Assigned
    - Explore 2-3 things in Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments that are useful for your interests.
- Wednesday, September 25th, 2-3 – Fellows Lounge
  - Code lab
Week 6
- Tuesday, October 1, 1-2 – Fellows Lounge
  - Design jam workshop concepts
  - Readings assigned
    - Come in with one or two ideas/topics for a workshop you might run.
    - To prep, Explore Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, try out a programminghistorian.org lesson, or talk to Brandon.
    - Explore 2-3 things in Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments
- Wednesday, October 2, 1-2 – Fellows Lounge
  - Design jam workshop concepts
  - Readings assigned
    - Come in with one or two ideas/topics for a workshop you might run.
    - To prep, Explore Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, try out a programminghistorian.org lesson, or talk to Brandon.
    - Explore 2-3 things in Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments
- Wednesday, October 2, 2-3 – Fellows Lounge
  - Code lab
Week 7
- Tuesday, October 8th - No meeting b/c of reading days
- Wednesday, October 9th, 1-2 – Fellows Lounge
  - Skype with Mackenzie Brooks at W&L on pedagogy in liberal arts context; booked
- Wednesday, October 9th, 2-3 Fellows Lounge
  - Code lab
Week 8
- Tuesday, October 15th, 1-2 – Fellows Lounge
  - Timed writing prompts on DH pedagogy
- Wednesday, October 16th, 1-2 – Fellows Lounge
  - Visitor from outside lab
- Wednesday, October 16th, 2-3 – Fellows Lounge
  - Code lab
Week 9
- Tuesday, October 22nd, 1-2 - Fellows Lounge
  - Workshops due (in blog post form); discuss them.
  - Framing of grant / project proposal assignment.
- Wednesday, October 23rd, 1-2 - Fellows Lounge
  - Drew and Chris to talk about Equity Atlas datasets solicited
- Wednesday, October 23rd, 2-3 - Fellows Lounge
  - Code lab
Week 10
- Tuesday, October 29th, 1-2 – Fellows Lounge
  - Grants, Dave Dave booked.
- Wednesday, October 30th, 1-2 – Fellows Lounge
  - Project conversation
- Wednesday, October 30th, 2-3 – Fellows Lounge
  - Code lab
Week 11
- Tuesday, November 5th, 1-2 – Fellows Lounge
  - Brandon Butler on copyright and IP Booked
- Wednesday, November 6th, 1-2 – Fellows Lounge
  - Project conversation
- Wednesday, November 6th, 2-3 – Fellows Lounge
  - Code lab
Week 12
- Tuesday, November 12th, 1-2 – Fellows Lounge
  - Project Management workshop by Ronda Booked
- Wednesday, November 13th, 1-2 – Fellows Lounge
  - Project conversation
- Wednesday, November 13th, 2-3 – Fellows Lounge
  - Code lab
Week 13
- Tuesday, November 19th, 1-2 – Fellows Lounge
  - Project discussion w/ visitors 1:00-1:30 solicited
  - Laura on budgets 1:30-2:00 solicited
- Wednesday, November 20th, 1-2 – Fellows Lounge
  - Project conversation 1:00-1:30
  - Project conversation w/ visitors 1:30-2:00
- Wednesday, November 20th, 2-3 – Fellows Lounge
  - Code lab
  - Jeremy on design thinking booked
- Thursday, November 21st, 1-2:30 - space TBD
  - John Rhea workshop on HTML/CSS

No meetings week of November 26th due to University holiday

Week 14
Tuesday, December 3rd, 1-2 – Fellows Lounge
- Project conversation and framing next semester
Wednesday, December 4th, 1-2 – Fellows Lounge
- Project conversation and framing next semester
Wednesday, December 4th, 2-3 – Fellows Lounge
- Code lab
  - Jeremy on advanced web design, HTML/CSS booked

Spring - 14 weeks - January 13 - April 28

Project Manager 1 - Natasha

1 - January 15th 1:00-3:00; Work Time. 3:00-4:00 LaDale Winling on “Three Failures and Two Successes in Digital History”
2 - January 22nd 1:00-4:00; Literature/Project Survey, Praxis Fellows
3 - January 29th 1:00-4:00; Work Time

Project Manager 2 - Janet

4 - February 5th 1:00-4:00; Work Time
5 - February 12th 1:00-4:00; Work Time
6 - February 19th 1:00-4:00; Work Time

Project Manager 3 - Chloe

7 - February 26th 1:00-4:00; Work Time
8 - March 4th 1:00-4:00; Work Time
9 - No meeting week of March 11th for spring break
10 - March 18th 1:00-4:00, Work time;

Project Manager 4 - Connor

11 - March 25th 1-4 Work Time and alt-ac career discussion with Katina, Amanda, and Brandon
12 - April 1st 1-4; Work Time
13 - April 8th 1-4 Work Time;

Aim for soft launch of web presence for project on April 15th.

Project Manager 5 - Lauren

14 - April 15th 1-4; Work Time
15 - April 22nd 1-4; Work Time
16 - April 29th 1-4; Work Time

Final presentation on May 5th