Due: Friday, May 3rd
Please share the link with aquigley@macalester.edu by 5 pm
Grade value: 35% of your final grade
We will scaffold the assignment as follows:
- Friday, March 1st: Students will curate a hypothetical exhibition in teams. This exercise will help prepare you for the online exhibition assignment by giving you an opportunity to create connections between objects and think about the text that accompanies them.
- Friday, March 8th: Selecting a topic. (5%)
Email Aisling (aquigley@macalester.edu) with a proposed topic for your online exhibition. You can change your topic after this date, but this is a good time to at least have an initial idea of a topic. - Friday, April 3rd: Introduction to CollectionBuilder
- Friday, April 5th: (optional) Draft text of introduction
Email Aisling (aquigley@macalester.edu) with draft text of your introduction (300-400 words). - Friday, April 12th: Research Day
- Wednesday, April 24th: Work Day
- Friday, April 26th: Peer review. (5%)
- Friday, May 3rd, 10:30 am-12:30pm: Project Presentations and submission of final exhibition link (90%)
Your exhibition could be about:
The online exhibition will include:
- a written introduction/description of about 300-400 words (some guidance)
- a minimum of 5 artifacts with images and object labels (remember resources about object labels available here) of ~150-200 words each.
- please cite two scholarly articles/books in your exhibition (either in the introduction or somewhere in one of the object labels)
- (optional) about page- including an image of you or something of interest to you, and a short bio
Example site:
- !THIS IS AN INCOMPLETE ONLINE EXHIBITION! but an example of how your site might look. The object labels are INCOMPLETE and the Introduction doesn’t include citations, so please only view this as an incomplete example! Personal Digital Memorials, co-written by Aisling Quigley and Chelsea Gunn
Image Resources:
Inserted image: Screenshot of Botany Hall: Dioramas in Context, Accessed January 8, 2024.
