Homework (due by Noon on March 12):
- Skills Assessment: Taking the image you located in Week 5’s homework, experiment using Thinglink’s tools add one citation tag and 3 other tags (url, video, etc.) and post your results on your blog as a Skills Assessment by Noon on March 12
- Project Proposal (Due March 12)
- You will need to complete the remaining pieces of the HTML/Style (CSS) that we did not get to in class (reflected in the tutorial PowerPoints – Create an HTML page from scratch and Creating a Webpage from Scratch Part 2.1 CSS).
- Skills Assessment: Add the back-end and front-end screenshots OR upload the custom html to your Skills Assessment page.
- Make sure that you adjust elements of your page so that it does not resemble the “Checks and Balances” Powerpoints exactly – change content, colors, fonts, etc.
- In class Tutorial PowerPoints – Create an HTML page from scratch and Creating a Webpage from Scratch Part 2.1 CSS and Creating a Webpage from Scratch Part 2.2 CSS ** (will don in Class on 3/12)
- Make sure that you adjust elements of your page so that it does not resemble the “Checks and Balances” Powerpoints exactly – change content, colors, fonts, etc.
- Blog Post #3: write a post that reflects on your experience with coding so far, and engage in the debate within the DH community over whether or not humanities students should learn to code. Your post should include the following:
- A clear statement in the first paragraph of your position either for, against, or rejecting the premise.
- At least one quotation from the assigned readings: Kirschenbaum for, or Donahue against.
- A discussion of your prior coding experience and how your HTML/CSS went
- Start thinking about your Museum Assignment
Class Prep for March 12:
- Watch: The Amen Break
- *If you are interested in the legal issues involved in hip hop & sampling, you can instead watch the entire Copyright Criminals program ( ~56 min), but it’s not necessary!
- Read: Cory Doctorow, “We’ll Probably Never Free Mickey, But That’s Beside the Point.” Electronic Frontier Foundation (2016)
- Corynne McSherry, “Court Upholds Legality of Google Books: Tremendous Victory for Fair Use and the Public Interest,”Electronic Frontier Foundation, November 14, 2013.
- Read (Skim): Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, “Owning the Past,”in Digital History.
- REVIEW Lecture BEFORE CLASS: What is Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons?
- Be prepared to answer questions from PowerPoint!
In Class (March 12):
- REVIEW Lecture BEFORE CLASS: What is Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons?
- Add a copyright notice and, if you wish, an open-access license (Creative Commons) to your website. (You should do this for every website you create in this course.)
- I know this isn’t really part of a blog post, but when I am reading your posts, I will look to see if you copyrighted your website.
- Class Work – Copyright and Fair Use
- Resources:
- The Copyright Genie (librarycopyright.net)
- Copyright: An Overview, Cornell University Law School
- George Mason Copyright Office, sections on copyright and fair use
- GMU’s Basic Security Practices
- Instructions to add CC to your WordPress Site: Creative Commons – WordPress.com Support
- For traditional copyright, you can use this Plugin: Copyright plugin for wordpress – Copyright content protection for wordpress website |
- OPTIONAL Group Work – Measure Fair Use Factors on the following materials:
- The four factors that judges consider are:
- the purpose and character of your use
- the nature of the copyrighted work
- the amount and substantiality of the portion taken, and
- the effect of the use upon the potential market.
- Use: https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/ as a guide
- Create a channel for your group on Slack and answer: what are the usage restrictions on the aforementioned projects?
- The four factors that judges consider are:
Homework (due March 14):
In Class (March 14):
- Project Proposal Peer Review
After Class (due by Noon on March 19):
- Readings for Week 10:
- “The Voice of the Past” and “What makes Oral History Different” in The Oral History Reader
- Listen to some part of “I can almost see the lights of home” http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol2no1/lightssoundessay.html
- Hearing Change in the Chocolate City: Computational Methods for Listening to Gentrification, Alison Martin digital humanities quarterly 15.1, 2021
- See #dream-group-instructions for what to DM me on Slack from our Project “Speed Dating” from class
- Add a copyright notice and, if you wish, an open-access license (Creative Commons) to your website.
- Locate the icon to add to your site
- Instructions to add CC to your WordPress Site: Creative Commons – WordPress.com Support
- For traditional copyright, you can use this Plugin: Copyright plugin for WordPress – Copyright content protection for WordPress website
- You should do this for every website you create in this course.
- Blog Post #4 Using the readings/videos and the class exercises – Who owns the past? Which level of copyright/open access have you selected for your website? What copyrights and licenses have been assigned to the sources you’ve used so far in this class? (Go back and look.) What type of Creative Commons (or public domain) do you plan to select for your final project? Why? What potential limitations will you encounter for your final project?
- Don’t forget to comment on your peers’ blog posts (at least two)
- Work on your Museum Assignment due on March 26
