{"id":77,"date":"2018-05-09T12:12:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T16:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=77"},"modified":"2019-06-17T12:24:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:24:54","slug":"online-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/online-exhibit\/","title":{"raw":"Online Exhibit","rendered":"Online Exhibit"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\r\n<h3 itemprop=\"educationalUse\">Creating an Exhibit as a DHSS Assignment<\/h3>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">Featuring work from <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/our-project\/#denise\">Denise Challenger<\/a>'s exhibit\u00a0<span>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/caribana\/index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Playin\u2019 Mas, Play and Mas: A pedagogical journey of children and Caribana, 1970-1974<\/a><\/span><span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_862\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"229\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/2012\/01\/12\/retrospective_cultural_icon_will_munro_at_the_art_gallery_of_york_university.html\"><img src=\"http:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/05\/Munroe-York-Gallery-300x194.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"148\" class=\"wp-image-862 \" \/><\/a> Will Munro at the Art Gallery of York University, 2012. Cheryl O'Brien, AGYU[\/caption]\r\n\r\nWhen we ask students to write an essay, we\u2019re looking for them to develop an argument and draw evidence from scholarly sources to support that argument.\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\"><b>Developing an online exhibit can achieve similar goals as an essay<\/b> in that it can\u00a0answer a research question and provide a thesis \u2013 an <em>answer<\/em> to that research question \u2013 but in an online exhibit, your students can use both primary and secondary digital material to curate and prove their thesis in a public, online forum.\u00a0In this way, an online exhibit assignment can achieve the <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/part\/assignment-guides\/\">\"weaving\" together of text and other media<\/a> that digital humanist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/2009\/03\/12\/whats-wrong-with-writing-essays\/\">Mark Sample<\/a> (2010) has advocated for.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">Students can use multiple forms of digitized media to develop and communicate a position, because with DHSS\u00a0<strong>we are innovating, remixing, weaving, building, and designing\u00a0<\/strong>a woven, curated argument to be presented to the public.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\r\n<div class=\"textbox examples\">\r\n<h3 itemprop=\"educationalUse\">Summary<\/h3>\r\n<strong>Description:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>The curation of digital materials to demonstrate a particular argument or point of view<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Possible tools\/technologies:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Omeka<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Scalar<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Wordpress<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Blogger<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Google Sites<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Tumblr<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Powerpoint<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Word<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Elements of Process:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Identify materials<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Digitize materials if materials need to be digitized<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Develop a research question<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Organize materials in a way that explores a research question<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Post materials in a way that demonstrates an answer to the research question<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Size of Assignment:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Medium to Large<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Difficulty:<\/strong>\r\n<div>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Moderate. The selection of materials and how they will be \u201cread\u201d will be difficult elements of this assignment. Depending on the tool\/technologies your student uses, this could also be difficult. Note, however, that York University Libraries has provided <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/scalar\/\">support<\/a> for using Scalar if you are also interested in this technology. A way to counter both difficulties is to encourage students to follow a five paragraph model as a way to present their materials. An exhibit outline has been provided to support this approach.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">All four of our students created exhibits through this <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/our-project\/\">project<\/a>, but <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/our-project\/#denise\">Denise Challenge<\/a>\u2019s mini-exhibit \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/caribana\/locating-kids-in-caribana----a-photographic-journey?path=index\">Locating Children in Caribana<\/a>\u201d was designed the most like an essay your students could replicate in a course.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_861\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"161\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/caribana\/about-caribana?path=index\"><img src=\"http:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/05\/Exhibit-DC-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"163\" class=\"wp-image-861\" \/><\/a> A child dressed as fruit. Kenn Shah's Caribana photographs.[\/caption]\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">Just like if she was writing an essay, Denise started her exhibit with a research question, which was: <strong>How do the photographs of <em>Kiddies Carnival<\/em>\u00a0founder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/caribana\/about-kenn-shah\">Kenn Shah<\/a>\u00a0demonstrate the different ways children \"officially\" participated in Caribana from 1967 to 1977?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">Denise then engaged in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/caribana\/document-analysis-1-what-surprises-you---getting-to-know-the-photo\">reflective<\/a> and then a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/caribana\/document-analysis\">structured<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/historical-image-analysis\/\">analysis<\/a> of photos from her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/caribana\/about-kenn-shah\">digitized archive<\/a>. <strong>From these reflections, Denise developed an answer to her research question, her <em>thesis<\/em><\/strong>, which was: Kenn Shah's photographs demonstrate that children both received and transmitted Caribbean culture during Caribana in three locations:\u00a0<em>fixed<\/em> stage, as competitive performers or ceremonial ambassadors; the <em>moving<\/em> stage of the main road, as masqueraders or costumed accompaniments; and the <em>side road<\/em>, without costumes but as spectators.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">As a way to exhibit her findings, Denise then created\u00a0a \u201ccarousel\u201d of <a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/caribana\/locating-kids-in-caribana----a-photographic-journey?path=index\">primary source images<\/a> that provided evidence for each of these locations.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/scalar\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/scalar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/06\/Pressbooks-DigitalPublishingScalar.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for Scalar exhibit\" width=\"118\" height=\"177\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>Denise created her <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/our-project\/\">exhibit<\/a>, and her fancy \u201ccarousels,\u201d with <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/scalar\/\">Scalar<\/a>, an online exhibit tool. York University Libraries has provided <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/scalar\/\">support<\/a> for using Scalar, if you are also interested in this software.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/omeka.org\/\">Omeka<\/a> is also a popular online archive and exhibit software, and York University Libraries have also hosted a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archives.library.yorku.ca\/exhibits\">number of digital exhibits<\/a> using the Omeka platform.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">However, <strong>an exhibit does not have to have a lot of bells and whistles to tell an intriguing stor<\/strong>y; the Archives of Ontario\u2019s online exhibit \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov.on.ca\/en\/explore\/online\/ww1\/index.aspx\">Dear Sadie: Love, lives, and remembrance<\/a>\" is a good example of this.<strong> An digital exhibit is essentially a visual essay based on primary sources and thus only needs a platform to demonstrate its research question, thesis, and a breakdown of its argument into different areas supported by evidence.<\/strong> So, your students can use a standard web-hosting site such as <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/\">WordPress<\/a> , Blogger, or Google Sites to post their exhibit, but they can also use non-online options such as Powerpoint or even Word to demonstrate their argument and the positioning of materials.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">In our project, to keep the focus on developing an exhibit that is organized like an essay, <strong>we developed an <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1g76IN9mQtQce5D-aARubxSSW_5nnTDLinkHWR87Cnjg\/edit?usp=sharing\">exhibit outline form<\/a>\u00a0to guide students' work<\/strong>. You\u2019ll notice that this exhibit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1g76IN9mQtQce5D-aARubxSSW_5nnTDLinkHWR87Cnjg\/edit?usp=sharing\">outline<\/a> is very similar to an essay outline, and this was not an accident. For a DHSS assignment, especially for faculty and students new to DHSS, mimicking a familiar essay structure will help with adapting and developing new DHSS elements into their final assignment. This outline was designed to keep students focused on the relationship between their question\/topic, the breakdown of their exhibit pages, the evidence they will use to support their thesis, and their imagined audience for the exhibit. Having this <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1g76IN9mQtQce5D-aARubxSSW_5nnTDLinkHWR87Cnjg\/edit?usp=sharing\">outline<\/a> meant our conversation about exhibits constantly refined and defined the elements of students' arguments and how they were curated this argument in the online space.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">Because Denise\u2019s work involved the identification, digitization, and metadata creation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/caribana\/about-kenn-shah\">Kenn Shah<\/a>'s <a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/caribana\/archive\">archive<\/a>\u00a0and the development of her digital-essay, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/caribana\/locating-kids-in-caribana----a-photographic-journey?path=index\">Locating Children in Caribana<\/a>,\u201d Denise provided little textual explanation for each position. However,<strong> if your students are already using materials that have been digitized, you could require them to write more text or incorporate an additional element<\/strong>, like an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/oral-history\/\">Oral History Digital Story<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/mapping-primary-sources\/\">Map<\/a>, into the exhibit. You could also design a collaborative exhibit for your whole class to engage in where each student would develop one page to support a larger project.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">See the York University Libraries' Pressbook on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/scalar\/\">Digital Publishing with Scalar<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/planningselecting\/\">Planning and Selecting for Digitization<\/a><\/em> for more support on the larger parts of this assignment, as well as our <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/step-3-examples\/\">examples page<\/a> for exhibits created through or inspired by our project.<\/div>","rendered":"<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\n<h3 itemprop=\"educationalUse\">Creating an Exhibit as a DHSS Assignment<\/h3>\n<p class=\"no-indent\">Featuring work from <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/our-project\/#denise\">Denise Challenger<\/a>&#8216;s exhibit\u00a0<span>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/caribana\/index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Playin\u2019 Mas, Play and Mas: A pedagogical journey of children and Caribana, 1970-1974<\/a><\/span><span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_862\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-862\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/2012\/01\/12\/retrospective_cultural_icon_will_munro_at_the_art_gallery_of_york_university.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/05\/Munroe-York-Gallery-300x194.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"148\" class=\"wp-image-862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/05\/Munroe-York-Gallery-300x194.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/05\/Munroe-York-Gallery-768x495.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/05\/Munroe-York-Gallery-1024x660.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/05\/Munroe-York-Gallery-65x42.jpeg 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/05\/Munroe-York-Gallery-225x145.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/05\/Munroe-York-Gallery-350x226.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/05\/Munroe-York-Gallery.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Munro at the Art Gallery of York University, 2012. Cheryl O&#8217;Brien, AGYU<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When we ask students to write an essay, we\u2019re looking for them to develop an argument and draw evidence from scholarly sources to support that argument.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-indent\"><b>Developing an online exhibit can achieve similar goals as an essay<\/b> in that it can\u00a0answer a research question and provide a thesis \u2013 an <em>answer<\/em> to that research question \u2013 but in an online exhibit, your students can use both primary and secondary digital material to curate and prove their thesis in a public, online forum.\u00a0In this way, an online exhibit assignment can achieve the <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/part\/assignment-guides\/\">&#8220;weaving&#8221; together of text and other media<\/a> that digital humanist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/2009\/03\/12\/whats-wrong-with-writing-essays\/\">Mark Sample<\/a> (2010) has advocated for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-indent\">Students can use multiple forms of digitized media to develop and communicate a position, because with DHSS\u00a0<strong>we are innovating, remixing, weaving, building, and designing\u00a0<\/strong>a woven, curated argument to be presented to the public.<\/p>\n<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\n<div class=\"textbox examples\">\n<h3 itemprop=\"educationalUse\">Summary<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The curation of digital materials to demonstrate a particular argument or point of view<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Possible tools\/technologies:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Omeka<\/li>\n<li>Scalar<\/li>\n<li>WordPress<\/li>\n<li>Blogger<\/li>\n<li>Google Sites<\/li>\n<li>Tumblr<\/li>\n<li>Powerpoint<\/li>\n<li>Word<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Elements of Process:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify materials<\/li>\n<li>Digitize materials if materials need to be digitized<\/li>\n<li>Develop a research question<\/li>\n<li>Organize materials in a way that explores a research question<\/li>\n<li>Post materials in a way that demonstrates an answer to the research question<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Size of Assignment:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Medium to Large<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Difficulty:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Moderate. The selection of materials and how they will be \u201cread\u201d will be difficult elements of this assignment. Depending on the tool\/technologies your student uses, this could also be difficult. Note, however, that York University Libraries has provided <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/scalar\/\">support<\/a> for using Scalar if you are also interested in this technology. A way to counter both difficulties is to encourage students to follow a five paragraph model as a way to present their materials. An exhibit outline has been provided to support this approach.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"no-indent\">All four of our students created exhibits through this <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/our-project\/\">project<\/a>, but <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/our-project\/#denise\">Denise Challenge<\/a>\u2019s mini-exhibit \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/caribana\/locating-kids-in-caribana----a-photographic-journey?path=index\">Locating Children in Caribana<\/a>\u201d was designed the most like an essay your students could replicate in a course.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_861\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-861\" style=\"width: 161px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/caribana\/about-caribana?path=index\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/05\/Exhibit-DC-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"163\" class=\"wp-image-861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/05\/Exhibit-DC-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/05\/Exhibit-DC-65x66.jpg 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/05\/Exhibit-DC-225x227.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/05\/Exhibit-DC-350x354.jpg 350w, https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/05\/Exhibit-DC.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child dressed as fruit. Kenn Shah&#8217;s Caribana photographs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"no-indent\">Just like if she was writing an essay, Denise started her exhibit with a research question, which was: <strong>How do the photographs of <em>Kiddies Carnival<\/em>\u00a0founder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/caribana\/about-kenn-shah\">Kenn Shah<\/a>\u00a0demonstrate the different ways children &#8220;officially&#8221; participated in Caribana from 1967 to 1977?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"no-indent\">Denise then engaged in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/caribana\/document-analysis-1-what-surprises-you---getting-to-know-the-photo\">reflective<\/a> and then a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/caribana\/document-analysis\">structured<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/historical-image-analysis\/\">analysis<\/a> of photos from her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/caribana\/about-kenn-shah\">digitized archive<\/a>. <strong>From these reflections, Denise developed an answer to her research question, her <em>thesis<\/em><\/strong>, which was: Kenn Shah&#8217;s photographs demonstrate that children both received and transmitted Caribbean culture during Caribana in three locations:\u00a0<em>fixed<\/em> stage, as competitive performers or ceremonial ambassadors; the <em>moving<\/em> stage of the main road, as masqueraders or costumed accompaniments; and the <em>side road<\/em>, without costumes but as spectators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-indent\">As a way to exhibit her findings, Denise then created\u00a0a \u201ccarousel\u201d of <a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/caribana\/locating-kids-in-caribana----a-photographic-journey?path=index\">primary source images<\/a> that provided evidence for each of these locations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-indent\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/scalar\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/scalar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/06\/Pressbooks-DigitalPublishingScalar.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for Scalar exhibit\" width=\"118\" height=\"177\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>Denise created her <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/our-project\/\">exhibit<\/a>, and her fancy \u201ccarousels,\u201d with <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/scalar\/\">Scalar<\/a>, an online exhibit tool. York University Libraries has provided <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/scalar\/\">support<\/a> for using Scalar, if you are also interested in this software.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/omeka.org\/\">Omeka<\/a> is also a popular online archive and exhibit software, and York University Libraries have also hosted a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archives.library.yorku.ca\/exhibits\">number of digital exhibits<\/a> using the Omeka platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-indent\">However, <strong>an exhibit does not have to have a lot of bells and whistles to tell an intriguing stor<\/strong>y; the Archives of Ontario\u2019s online exhibit &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov.on.ca\/en\/explore\/online\/ww1\/index.aspx\">Dear Sadie: Love, lives, and remembrance<\/a>&#8221; is a good example of this.<strong> An digital exhibit is essentially a visual essay based on primary sources and thus only needs a platform to demonstrate its research question, thesis, and a breakdown of its argument into different areas supported by evidence.<\/strong> So, your students can use a standard web-hosting site such as <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/\">WordPress<\/a> , Blogger, or Google Sites to post their exhibit, but they can also use non-online options such as Powerpoint or even Word to demonstrate their argument and the positioning of materials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-indent\">In our project, to keep the focus on developing an exhibit that is organized like an essay, <strong>we developed an <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1g76IN9mQtQce5D-aARubxSSW_5nnTDLinkHWR87Cnjg\/edit?usp=sharing\">exhibit outline form<\/a>\u00a0to guide students&#8217; work<\/strong>. You\u2019ll notice that this exhibit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1g76IN9mQtQce5D-aARubxSSW_5nnTDLinkHWR87Cnjg\/edit?usp=sharing\">outline<\/a> is very similar to an essay outline, and this was not an accident. For a DHSS assignment, especially for faculty and students new to DHSS, mimicking a familiar essay structure will help with adapting and developing new DHSS elements into their final assignment. This outline was designed to keep students focused on the relationship between their question\/topic, the breakdown of their exhibit pages, the evidence they will use to support their thesis, and their imagined audience for the exhibit. Having this <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1g76IN9mQtQce5D-aARubxSSW_5nnTDLinkHWR87Cnjg\/edit?usp=sharing\">outline<\/a> meant our conversation about exhibits constantly refined and defined the elements of students&#8217; arguments and how they were curated this argument in the online space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-indent\">Because Denise\u2019s work involved the identification, digitization, and metadata creation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/caribana\/about-kenn-shah\">Kenn Shah<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/caribana\/archive\">archive<\/a>\u00a0and the development of her digital-essay, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/caribana\/locating-kids-in-caribana----a-photographic-journey?path=index\">Locating Children in Caribana<\/a>,\u201d Denise provided little textual explanation for each position. However,<strong> if your students are already using materials that have been digitized, you could require them to write more text or incorporate an additional element<\/strong>, like an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/oral-history\/\">Oral History Digital Story<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/mapping-primary-sources\/\">Map<\/a>, into the exhibit. You could also design a collaborative exhibit for your whole class to engage in where each student would develop one page to support a larger project.<\/p>\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">See the York University Libraries&#8217; Pressbook on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/scalar\/\">Digital Publishing with Scalar<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/planningselecting\/\">Planning and Selecting for Digitization<\/a><\/em> for more support on the larger parts of this assignment, as well as our <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/step-3-examples\/\">examples page<\/a> for exhibits created through or inspired by our project.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"menu_order":7,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-77","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":60,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/77\/revisions\/1114"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/60"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/77\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}