Final Reflection

Final Reflection Due: Thursday, December 17th between 5:00 and 7:30 pm
Percentage: 10%

General Overview

Drawing on the entire semester, you will create a media essay using Wakelet that incorporates tweets, readings, and links from class along with your reflections on your own work throughout the semester, the course as a whole, and the Digital Humanities more broadly.

Assignment Breakdown

You will be writing a 500+ word reflection. When you’re done, share your Collection (create a shareable link you’ll post in Scholar) and export to PDF (to submit via Scholar) by our Finals time slot.

Some additional notes:

You are required to use at least five tweets whether they are your own, someone else’s from class, or from Twitter more broadly
If you link to an article we read in class (or that we didn’t!), make sure to discuss it

And here are some questions to get you started (but feel free to reflect on anything about the course!):

What does Digital Humanities mean to you now that you’ve taken this course? Did your definition change over time? Do you have a better understanding of the field?
How did the readings supplement your understanding of course content (or not!)? Were any of them particularly helpful?
What assignments did you enjoy and/or struggle with? Why? Were they helpful in better understanding DH and its many complexities?
Do you think you’ve grown as a writer? As a reader? As a student? As a digital humanist?

What you should NOT do

Please don’t mention your grades. It’s not necessary and it puts you in a vulnerable spot. Instead, you can talk about how an assignment was difficult for you or how much fun you had doing a certain project. No grades. It’s just not worth it and it puts both of us in a weird position.
Please don’t quote my feedback. That’s something personal between the two of us. You can, however, talk about how my feedback was helpful as you moved forward or how you felt that you needed more guidance at a particular point.
This isn’t a rant or a time to gloat. If you had problems with the class, you can discuss why, but save a lot of that for your reviews of me and the course. You can be critical of readings, of course, and you can discuss frustrations, but please don’t, well, rant. On the other hand, if you loved a particular assignment or the course as a whole, that’s great (really great!), but think critically about it too. What worked for you and what didn’t?

Late Work

I will be subtracting 10 points for every day your assignment is late unless you’ve been been given an extension.

Evaluation Criteria

Uses adequate textual evidence (direct quotations, summaries, paraphrased passages) including tweets and readings from the course
Thinks critically about the class, individual work, and the Digital Humanities more broadly
Organizes ideas – basically, the reflection should make sense as a whole rather than as bits and pieces
Takes advantage and customizes the Wakelet platform
Utilizes proper mechanics; style, sentence structure, and spelling promote coherence, clarity, and credibility
Cites appropriately – but yes, for the articles and tweets you link to directly, don’t worry about citations

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