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Digital Scholarship Team, Featured Projects

DSFF 2018-19 Data Storytelling and Visualization

Proffessor Haiyan Jia re-designed a few courses by combining the two short modules into one semester-long course, and offering it to students in multiple disciplines besides Journalism. In doing so, she had to rethink the learning environment, and the technology that could fundamentally and signicantly enhance and revolutionize their education. Data can be intimidating and abstract especially to students who never expect to work with them before. The Visualization Lab facilitated their learning tremendously by bringing the data to life.

AMST 433/DOC 396 - Documentary Research and Production

This research and production course covered the history, theory, and ethical considerations of documentary film. Students chose topics to research, script, shoot, and edit to produce a 3- to 5-minute documentary video. Digital Media Studio lab staff provided editing instruction and guidance throughout the production and post-production process. The below example was produced by Tristan Rai.

Design Labs certification process (Video training modules)

The Digital Media Studio's Steve Lichak produced a series of safety training videos for the metal workshop with several different types of welders, saws, sanders, lathes, and prototyping equipment; a 3D-printing lab module and a wood shop series for a certification proces whose goal was to expand expand access to fabrication resources campus wide.  Below is one video in the series.

 

HIST 090 Teenagers

The course covered the ground-breaking work on adolescence from 1904 through the 1990s. Students were given assignments to help them get familiar with academic research and library resources and, based on that research were asked to create a bibliography, script, and podcast.  Below is an example of one student's work.  
 

Charlotte Smith Story Map

Supported by Scott Rutzmoser, Beth Dolan, Gillian Andrews and Nicole Reisert have created a stunning story map that details the the travels of 18th-century British author Charlotte Smith. The project took over a year to complete and is now featured in esri's Story Maps and the Digital Humanities collection. 

Earth and Environmental Science Virtual Lab

Professor David Anastasio asked for support creating a Virtual Reality Tour of the Lehigh Gap that focuses on the rock formations and layer along the cut.  Martha Villegas (student) collected field photos (360) and drone footage (Claudio Berti) of the area that was imported into an immersive environment.  Field work was completed 3/24 and 3/28.  Scott Rutzmoser helped coordinate the initial data collection and finalization of the web viewer.  The projected develop a methodology to get photos and videos into an open source and interactive viewing environment (