Syllabus 2020-2021

Praxis Schedule 2020-2021

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 each semester the last week of classes.

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

Slides -

• Introduction to Praxis
• Workshop on Workshops
  • Accompanying Sentiment Analysis Passages
• Mind Mapping Your Pedagogy
• Writing about Pedagogy

Fall - 15 weeks - August 25 - December 10

Our standard time together is generally going to be Tuesdays from 1-2 EST and Thursdays from 1-3 EST, with 2-3 being Codelab. We’ll be on zoom at least for the fall.

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 25th from 1-2
    • “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
  • Tuesday, August 25th from 2-3
    • Code lab - pep talk
    • Readings assigned (optional):
      • Paul Ford, What is Code?
      • Benjamin Schmidt, Do Digital Humanists Need to Understand Algorithms? - Don’t get caught up in the technical details; there’s absolutely no need to understand a Fourier Transform in any depth.
      • Ian Milligan and James Baker, Introduction to the Bash Command Line - All of you are using MacOS (or Linux), so this should be fairly straightforward. If you’ve switched to a Windows (or other) machine, please let me know because that could be a bit messier.
  • Thursday, August 27th from 1-2
    • Conversation about Collaboration and Community, Brandon and Amanda Booked
    • Readings Assigned
      • Miriam Posner, Here and There: Creating DH Community
      • Bethany Nowviskie, Capacity Through Care
      • Tom Scheinfeldt, Why Digital Humanities is “Nice”
      • Roopika Risam, Navigating the Global Digital Humanities: Insights from Black Feminism
      • Colored Convention Project Principles (might be helpful to poke around the site to see what the project is as well, since the principles don’t explicitly state as much)
• Week 2
  • Tuesday, September 1 from 1-2
    • 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.
        • DevDH (there is a ton there, so I’d just be aware it exists and check out 1 or 2 things if you’re interested)
  • Tuesday, September 1 from 2-3
    • Code lab
      • Homework to be done in advance of this session
  • Thursday, September 3 from 1-2
  • Lightning Round of DH Methods and Disciplines. Round 1 - Texts (Alison booked), Archives (Jeremy booked), Makerspaces (Ammon booked);
• Week 3
  • Tuesday, September 8 from 1-2
    • Lightning Round 2 - Maps (Chris/Drew booked); Augmented Reality / CHI (Arin booked).VR / CHI (Will booked).
  • Tuesday, September 8 from 2-3
    • Code lab
  • Thursday, September 10 from 1-2
    • Charter discussion
    • Reading - Blogging documentation if time allows
• Week 4
  • Tuesday, September 15 from 1-2
    • 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
  • Tuesday, September 15 from 2-3
    • Code lab
  • Thursday, September 17 from 1-2
    • 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
• Week 5
  • Tuesday, September 22, 1-2
    • Disciplinary DH assignment
      • Come in with 3-5 DH projects from your discipline (broadly construed!), some of which connect to your interests for discussion.
    • Readings Assigned
      • Explore 2-3 things in Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments that are useful for your interests.
  • Tuesday, September 22, 2-3
    • Code lab
  • Thursday, September 24, 1-2
    • Talk about the project
    • Workshop your workshops 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.
• Week 6
  • Tuesday, September 29, 1-2
    • Actually talk about the spring project
    • Design jam workshop concepts
      • 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
  • Tuesday, September 29, 2-3
    • Code lab
  • Thursday, October 1, 1-2
    • Timed writing prompts on DH pedagogy
    • 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
• Week 7
  • Tuesday, October 6, 1-2
    • Skype with Mackenzie Brooks at W&L on pedagogy in liberal arts context; Booked
    • Reading - “Launching the Digital Humanities Movement at Washington and Lee University: A Case Study”; “Minor in Digital Culture and Information” (in particular the linked PDF at the top of this post is useful context)
  • Tuesday, October 6, 2-3
    • Code lab
  • Wednesday, October 7 1-2:30 - Katina Rogers and Cihan Tekay talk on humanities PhD career development. Register here
  • Thursday, October 8, 1-2
    • Discussion with Katina Rogers and Cihan Tekay from CUNY. Booked
    • Reading - check out Katina’s Putting the Humanities PhD to Work
• Week 8
  • Tuesday, October 13, 1-2
    • Zoom chat with DH Fellows at Yale
  • Tuesday, October 13, 2-3
    • Code lab
  • Thursday, October 15, 1-2
    • Final DH pedagogy discussion
• Week 9
  • Tuesday, October 20, 1-2
    • Workshops due (in blog post form); discuss them.
    • Framing of grant / project proposal assignment.
  • Tuesday, October 20, 2-3
    • Code lab
  • Thursday, October 22, 1-2
    • Project Chat
• Week 10
  • Tuesday, October 27, 1-2
    • Grants, Dave Booked.
  • Tuesday, October 27, 2-3
    • Code lab
  • Wednesday, October 28, 2-3:30 - Cassius Adair workshop on writing for the public and public humanities. Zoom link for registration forthcoming here
  • Thursday, October 29, 1-2
    • Project conversation
• Week 11
  • Tuesday, November 3, 1-2
    • Brandon Butler on copyright and IP Booked «««< HEAD

      • Readings - Watch the copyright videos in the first section of this document.

      • Readings - Watch the copyright videos in the first section of this document.

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  • Tuesday, November 3, 2-3
    • Code lab
  • Thursday, November 5, 1-2
    • Project conversation
• Week 12
  • Tuesday, November 10, 1-2
    • Project Management workshop by Ronda Booked
  • Tuesday, November 10, 2-3
    • Code lab
  • Thursday, November 12, 1-2
    • Project conversation
• Week 13
  • Tuesday, November 17, 1-2
    • Project discussion
  • Tuesday, November 17, 2-3
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    • Jeremy on design thinking (or more CL if Shane Decides™ so) TO DO

    • Jeremy on web design 1 Booked

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  • Thursday, November 19, 1-2
    • Laura and Suitable Team on Budgets and Management Booked

No meetings week of November 24th due to University holiday

• Week 14
  • Tuesday, December 1, 1-2
    • Project conversation and framing next semester
  • Tuesday, December 1, 2-3
    • Code lab «««< HEAD

      • Jeremy on web design, HTML/CSS Booked

      • Jeremy on web design 2, HTML/CSS Booked

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  • Thursday, December 3, 1-2
    • DH Project Sustainability, Lauren Work Booked
• Week 15
  • Tuesday, December 8, 1-2
    • Project conversation and framing next semester
  • Tuesday, December 8, 2-3
    • Code lab «««< HEAD

    • Jeremy on web design, HTML/CSS Booked

    • Code Lab wrap; single tear

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  • Thursday, December 10, 1-2
    • Project conversation and framing next semester

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Spring - 14 weeks - February 1 - May 6

Project Manager 1 - ??

• 0 - Week of August 25; Do we remember what Praxis is?

• 1 - Week of February 1; Work Time

  Spring - 14 weeks - February 1 - May 6

Project Manager 1 - ??

• 1 - Week of February 1; Work Time.

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• 2 - Week of February 8; Literature/Project Survey, Praxis Fellows

Project Manager 2 - ??

• 3 - Week of February 15; Work Time
• 4 - Week of February 22; Work Time

Project Manager 3 - ??

• 5 - Week of March 1; Work Time
• 6 - Week of March 8; Work Time

Project Manager 4 - ??

• 7 - Week of March 15; Work Time
• 8 - Week of March 22; Work Time

Project Manager 5 - ??

• 9 - Week of March 29, Work time;
• 10 - Week of April 5; Work Time and alt-ac career w/ Amanda, and Brandon

Project Manager 6 - ??

• 11 - Week of April 12; Work Time
• 12 - Week of April 19; 1-4 Work Time; Aim for soft launch of web presence for project on April 20th.

Project Manager 7 - Pepper

• 13 - Week of April 26; Work Time
• 14 - Week of May 3; Work Time

Final presentation May 12th 10:30-12:00.