Digital Humanities – Spring 2018

I am really interested in this course not only for the content but for the fact that I get to have four different professors for one course! I have never seen a cotaught class like this before, so I am excited to be a part of it. I am also excited to learn the digital tools and resources that I can use in my future classroom. I am excited to do the gaming with Kevin, I have never done anything like that before and I am really looking forward to it. I am nervous that the technological aspect of this class will be more advanced than what I normally know how to do. I am just eager to learn and play with these technologies.

Emily Hatch

Coming into this class I was really unsure of what to expect. I know there is a lot of technology I am unfamiliar with that is applicable to many fields in our current society that I would like to learn, but I am unsure of how they apply to my specific field. I know that for a resume and just general knowledge it is beneficial to become familiar with these technologies so that is one of my main goals. I want to dabble in programs such as Excel, photoshop, word press, etc, in order to become familiar with how to use them and what ways they can be used. Some fears I have are that I am not very technologically savvy, and wonder if I will able to understand what is going on or be able to keep up with it. I don’t really know what to expect but I am hoping for the best and I am excited to be exposed to multiple fields that I am not so familiar with!

-Peter McKasty

I hope to expand my knowledge of different forums online that can be used to look at different texts. I am concerned about not fully understanding things because I am not a very technologically savy person.

 

Kara Smith

I added this just so my housemate could get more views

My hopes and fears for this class are listed as the following:

I hope to get better with my writing both creatively and technically. I hope to make some creative content with my blogs/vlogs. I hope to enjoy my time in class with everyone. I find it a little intimidating that I will be changing professors three times throughout the semester. Four professors means four different expectations which could lead to four times the anxiety… just kidding, but nevertheless, it is an experience that I am not at all familiar with. I think digital humanities can make me more flexible in terms of producing works of my own that can be shared with anyone who is interested in reading/ watching it.

Let’s talk about a logical fallacy that I’ve been confronted with thanks to a certain someone on campus. The quote began with “I’m pretty sure I am one hundred percent right when I say…” and the end of the quote does not need to be mentioned for two reasons: one is that the error lies in just this part and the other reason is simply because I have forgotten it. What exactly is wrong with this? Well, you absolutely know what is wrong with it; this is completely contradictory. How can one be “pretty sure” that they are one hundred percent right? “Pretty sure” does not belong in this sentence, and if it did, (which it did because this individual was in fact wrong about whatever we were discussing) then what needs to be booted out is that one hundred percent. We must now decrease the percentage because the sureness level leaves us with no concrete resolve. Why on earth am I stressing so much about a simple mistake? This makes me look like a criticizing schmuck and I am a criticizing schmuck, but only when I think it matters! There are two extremely positive results that come from confronting this mistake: one result is that the message was noticed, and corrected, which shows the progression of human intelligence, and the other result (which I think is the most important of the two) is that I get to tease the person every time we argue and I say “I’m pretty sure I am one hundred percent right.”

-Grant

Something that I am looking forward to and hoping to be part of in this class is finding works that have been lost through the “canon.” Reading the handout, I came to realize that there is probably so much great literature out there in the universe that people forget about simply because it wasn’t popular when it was published. Hopefully we do something along those lines. I don’t really have a fear about this class other than a heavy workload.