Week 2: Project Planning, Publishing Platforms, and Data Literacy – Digital Scholarship Summer Research Fellows 2024

June 3 – 7, 2024

Blog Post

Due Friday, June 7:
Post your project plan (or a portion of it). This should describe the components of your project and how you plan to complete them. Your plan can take any form: a paragraph, a to-do list, an image, a journal entry, a project management tool (for example a Trello board), or something entirely different.

Monday, June 3

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, HMHC 113

Reading: Module A1: What is the scope of your project? (from the The Socio-Technical Sustainability Roadmap)
Reading:Module A5: Project Documentation Checklist
Introduction to project planning and project charters
- Reading: Stewart Varner’s blog posts “Project Proposal Form” (alternate link) and “Project Charter.” (alternate link)
Project management tools and resources
Project planning group work session

1:00 PM – 3:30 PM, Dana 213

Accessibility in web development and project design workshop with Dr. Anne Ross (Assistant Professor of Computer Science) and the Just Computing Fellows
- Slides: Web & Social Media Accessibility workshop

Tuesday, June 4

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, HMHC 113

Reading: Building a Thoreau Timeline
Group photo!
5-minute check-ins
TimelineJS and Datawrapper workshop
- Black History at Bucknell timeline
- Guide to Using Datawrapper

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM, HMHC 113

Independent work time

Wednesday, June 5

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM, Digital Lab (Hildreth Mirza 012)

WordPress workshop
- Sample text and images for placeholders

11:00 AM, Bertrand Library Traditional Reading Room (optional)

Coffee and doughnuts with the L&IT Summer Research programs (DSSRF and the Summer Research Grants)

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM, Digital Lab (Hildreth Mirza 012)

Independent work time

3:30 – 5:00 PM, Rooke Pavilion (optional)

Campus-wide summer research ice cream social! Everyone is welcome for frozen treats, cookies, and candy.

Homework: Find Data Visualizations

Due by Friday, June 7:

Next week we’ll be discussing data visualization. To be able to create effective data visualizations, it’s important for you to develop your visual literacy skills.

Please be prepared to share three data visualizations that you’ve found. Your visualizations may be on websites (have the URLs!) or they may be printed copies of something you found in a book, magazine, or newspaper. Ideally, each of you will bring at least one visualization that you think is “good,” and at least one that you think is “bad.” The third can be good, bad, a combination of good and bad, or one that you’re just not sure about. Your visualizations do not need to be related to your projects, but they can be about topics that are of interest to you. You can add your examples to this slide deck.