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Spring 2012 & the DML is abloom and buzzing
It is almost MLK Day and that means a calendar year has just turned over and we are about to start our spring semester. 2011 was a really good year for the DML. Here are some highlights:
photo by Flickr user blathlean used under Creative Commons license
In the spring, Prof. David Jaffee's 19th c. New York class created a great online exhibition, which saw our students bravely delve into the unfamiliar world of web design, HTML, CSS, javascript, etc.
PhD candidate Yenna Chan's class Rus in Urbe saw a successful first foray into video essays. Inspired by these works, Prof. Jaffee implemented a similar assignment in his fall course Material Culture of 20th c. New York Class, and his students produced some really amazing work.
During the summer the BGC was host to an NEH Institute on the Material Culture of NYC. Participants took advantage of the DML and workshops on on presentations, database software, and collaboration tools.
Fall 2011 saw the use of wikis as course sites at the BGC flourish to its fullest, as every class now has a course site with many professors experimenting with new assignments that take advantage of the interactive and collaborative features of the sites.
There was also an explosion in the use of Prezi at the BGC for not only presentations, but also as a space to compare and analyze sets of visual information, create visual syllabi for course materials, and even develop prototypes for potential digital media projects.
The upcoming spring promises to be just as busy, if not moreso. AMNH fellow Erin Hasinoff's Material Itineraries focus gallery tutorial will be designing prototypes for interactive media displaysm while Prof. Jaffee's Interpretation of the Artifact in the Age of New Media course will inevitably be exploring and experimenting with a wide range of digital media on a number of platforms.
DML Information
BGC DML Sites
Course Sites Spring '12
- Survey
- Ancient Ceramics and Glass
- Decorative Arts of Later Imperial China, 1000-1900
- Design and Interior Architecture in Germany, 1700-2000
- Design in Film and Television
- Ethnography and the Material World
- Graphic Design in Europe: 1890-1945
- Interpretation of the Artifact in the Age of New Media
- Issues in the Study of Ancient Art
- Late Antique/Early Medieval Material Culture and the Making of Europe
- London - New York - Paris
- Markets to Manners
- Politics and Design of World’s Fairs
- Society and the Arts in 18th-Century France
- Survey of European Ceramics
- Thinking with Things in North America
- Twentieth-Century Fashion
A list of all BGC Course Sites
Exhibition Development Wikis
BGC DML Wiki Links
Digital Media Resources
- Digital Media Tools
- Content Management And Social Network Tools
- Digital Media Organizations
- Digital Scholarship Projects
DML Events
- 2011 NEH Summer Institute
- Digital Publishing: 2011 and Beyond
- 2011 Graduate Student Symposium
- Artifact in the Age of New Media: Symposium Site
