Creativity & Digital Storytelling
Goals for this week
- Last week was about getting your work out there. This week is about finding the compelling story, the enchanting story, the heart-centered work of archaeology.
Listen
Read
Read at least four of these:
- Perry, Sara. 2019. The Enchantment of the Archaeological Record. European Journal of Archaeology. 22.3, 354-371 link
- González-Tennant, Edward. 2010. Virtual Archaeology and Digital Storytelling: A Report from Rosewood, Florida. The African Diaspora Archaeology Network, September 2010 Newsletter. link
- Alex Fitzpatrick. 2019. No Margins, No Word Counts, No Masters! Experimenting With ‘Zines for Archaeological Outreach 2019 #PATC link
- Vrettakis, Ektor et al. 2019. Narralive – Creating and experiencing mobile digital storytelling in cultural heritage Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage 15.e00114 link
- Tringham, Ruth. 2020. Closely Observed Layers: Storytelling and the Heart in Kisha Supernant, Jane Eva Baxter, Natasha Lyons, Sonya Atalay (eds). Archaeologies of the Heart, Springer, Cham, 2020. 239-252 link
- Collar, A. and S. Eve. 2021. Fire for Zeus: using Virtual Reality to explore meaning and experience at Mount Kasios. World Archaeology 52.3: 521-538. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2021.1920458 (alternative link).
Each reading is ‘seeded’ with annotations by me; some of my annotations contain video from me directing you to pay attention to particular issues or ideas. Annotate anything interesting you find with Hypothes.is while logged into our reading group, keeping in mind what you’ve already heard/read.
A good annotation draws connections between what you’ve read and other things you’ve read/heard/experienced. I explicitly encourage you to connect what you read in this class with what you’re reading/doing in other classes. Also add anything you read or anything interesting you find to your Zotero library.
Do
- engage creatively with your data to tell a compelling story
- try some archaeogaming
- augment your reality
Record and Reflect
You may make your repository private or public.
If you make it private, make sure to ‘invite user shawngraham’ to your repository so that I may view it. (See the Github instructions for a reminder.)
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As you did for week one, make another notes.md entry and put it in your github repository for week 11.
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In your reflective journal, drawing on your annotations of what you’ve read, your notes from what you’ve listened to, and the work you’ve done (both the successes and the not-quite-successes), discuss some ways in which a creative mindset might change what archaeology (or history for that matter) could be for you as a scholar. Begin the reflection by quoting (w/ citation) one sentence from the readings that resonates with you: you don’t have to explain why, but you might select something that is personally meaningful, or leaves you confused, or makes you happy, or intrigues you to know more… etc. Put your journal in your repo.
Log Your Work
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