I took some notes during our visit from past ITP students Pamela Thielman and Christina Shane-Simpson on 2/22, and thought it might be useful to share them:

Pamela:
– Think broadly about who you might collaborate with, both inside ITP and at the GC more broadly (and even beyond)
– She was looking for a project that incorporated giving back to her community of Theatre scholars, wasn’t teaching at the time so felt like she wanted to do something less explicitly pedagogical
– Be careful what you wish for! She’s administering the theatre images site now
– Useful learning through the project, e.g. now knows not to clean data by hand
– Also engaged her in a larger conversation about digital projects and sustainability of them, working with the GC Library currently
– Omeka is what Pamela used for her project, ask her if you have questions

Christina:
– Really wanted to have a project that could be used for her own scholarship as well as the IS course
– Implemented a summer transition program for students on the autism spectrum at CSI
– Part of this was social and advocacy skills for the students, but tech skills were huge as well
– Learned when they interviewed on intake that there was a big range of student skill levels
– Weren’t really using social media so shrunk that, kept the emailing your professor module
– Then ran the program again this past summer and had a totally different cohort, had to make a bunch of changes both times
– Also tried to incorporate some of those tech skills into other modules if necessary
– She’s written up the project as an article, but she’s also benefited from the theory from ITP courses too
– She’s also implemented a Wikipedia assignment, used it with a class of 100, too big! But would’ve been fine with smaller class, also more challenging with early career students than later

General discussion:
– Don’t forget about the evaluation of whatever you build/do for the IS. Sometimes the evaluation is does it work when you plug it in?
– Check mydigitalfootprint.org for an example of a digital dissertation from Greg Donovan, former GC student

Pamela also sent these resources for working with Omeka:

Omeka.org is the source for basic info on the platform and Omeka.net hosts the free sites. Both have links to examples of interest.
http://omeka.org/
http://www.omeka.net/

Here are two of Kimon Keramidas’ class sites (he is the GC/ITP alum who oversaw my capstone). He uses Omeka as a base and then some intermediate level coding to create themes that allow for more interactivity and flexibility. These are Omeka.org sites, so anyone wanting to get this fancy will need server space.
http://www.bgccraftartdesign.org/
http://physical-electrical-digital.nyufasedtech.com/