{"id":282,"date":"2023-05-02T15:37:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T15:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/stldigitalhumanities\/?p=282"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:02:22","slug":"digital-humanities-project-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/stldigitalhumanities\/2023\/05\/02\/digital-humanities-project-evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Humanities Project Evaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Contributed by Margaret Smith, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Course:\u00a0<\/strong>Intro to Digital Humanities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Level:\u00a0<\/strong>College<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tool:\u00a0<\/strong>None<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Other materials:<\/strong>\u00a0Computer access<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As with traditional humanities courses, one of my chief goals in teaching digital history and digital humanities is to equip students to engage critically with both primary and secondary sources. I want them to be able to articulate a digital project\u2019s argument, identify biases and points of view, and put it in conversation with other sources, both print and digital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To that end, I\u2019ve created this project evaluation worksheet that students use in groups to collaboratively engage with digital projects. I\u2019ve used this both with freshmen in the digital humanities Transdisciplinary Communication course and with upper-level students in my introduction to digital humanities. The selected projects help this assignment to do double duty as a public humanities assignment. Each project is an example of Rapid Response Research and responds to an urgent need. I find rapid response projects to be a great target for project evaluation exercises because 1) since they\u2019re targeting a clear need, they\u2019re often more explicit about articulating their goals, and 2) they help make visible to students how digital humanities tools and methods have applications outside the classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Some good rapid response DH projects:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sucho.org\/\">https:\/\/www.sucho.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Digital IDs and Smart Cities, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejustdatalab.com\/tools-1\/smart-cities-5hdnl\">https:\/\/www.thejustdatalab.com\/tools-1\/smart-cities-5hdnl<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Barred Business: A Response to the Small Business Administration\u2019s Exclusion of Formerly Incarcerated Business Owners, <a href=\"https:\/\/arcg.is\/9rG4u\">https:\/\/arcg.is\/9rG4u<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The COVID-19 Oral History Project, <a href=\"https:\/\/covid-19archive.org\/s\/oralhistory\/page\/welcome\">https:\/\/covid-19archive.org\/s\/oralhistory\/page\/welcome<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Torn Apart\/Separados, <a href=\"https:\/\/xpmethod.columbia.edu\/torn-apart\/volume\/1\/\">https:\/\/xpmethod.columbia.edu\/torn-apart\/volume\/1\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/stldigitalhumanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2023\/05\/Project-evaluation-worksheet-blank.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"both\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"on\">Project-evaluation-worksheet-blank<\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/stldigitalhumanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2023\/05\/Project-evaluation-worksheet-blank.docx\">Click here to download the worksheet as a Word document.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contributed by Margaret Smith, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville As with traditional humanities courses, one of my chief goals in teaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21,16,22,23],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignments","tag-field-digital-humanities","tag-level-college","tag-project-evaluation","tag-rapid-response-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/stldigitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/stldigitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/stldigitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/stldigitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/stldigitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/stldigitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/stldigitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/stldigitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/stldigitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/stldigitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}