What lightweight digital tools can be incorporated into digitally inflected assignments in humanities courses? How can assignments ask students both to create using these tools and critique the affordances & constraints of these tools? Let’s roll up our sleeves and play with some of the following tools and imagine their use in a range of humanities courses:

• Timeline JS for creating beautiful, interactive timelines.
• StoryMap for telling stories with a spatial dimension.
• SoundCite for inline audio citation.
• Hypothesis, which makes it possible to annotate, critique, and takes notes on top of writing on the web.

Let’s play! Follow + share + contribute to our shared collaborative session notes.

Sharon Leon, Director of Public Projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason, has agreed to teach Omeka workshops at THATCamp Piedmont 2016!

Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Its “five-minute setup” makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog.

Omeka is a Swahili word meaning to display or lay out wares; to speak out; to spread out; to unpack.