Assessment F22

Assessed elements of the course:

Class participation (10%)

I expect active participation from all students enrolled in the course. This means participating in the attending class (whatever hybrid form it may occasionally take) and participating in discussions. This course will require experimentation with new digital environments and a willingness to try, and perhaps sometimes struggle, with new modes of working and studying. If you do not attend the course sessions, it will not be possible to complete coursework and receive higher than a C.

Responses (30%)

There will be 4 written responses in the research blog (they are graded on a 10 point scale, and make up 30% of your total grade). Unless noted, a typical response will be about 750-1000 words, plus several well chosen visuals. They will be either reflective pieces on a conceptual issue that has arisen in class or a lab report-style write-up and critique about a project or experiment carried out. The main point here is to learn to communicate ideas in an open forum and to develop a voice for public, web-based, media-rich writing. Students who are proficient in other blogging platforms or sustainable web publishing may opt for those.

Two assignments 30% (15% each)

These two assignments will be open ended, web-based applications of the work that we have done in the rest of the course. These are typically about 1500 words each, plus illustrative visualizations. Detailed instructions and a rubric will be given on the site.

Final assignment 30%

This final assignment is project-based in which we will create a few corpora, some with local relevance to the campus and analyze them for what it can tell us about the contents and about the technologies creating the corpus. Detailed instructions and a rubric will be given on the site.