Schedule

This course runs in the Winter term, 2018. Not a student at Carleton U? Why not follow along!

This class meets M and W, 11.35-12.55, SA304.

If you’re not a Carleton U student, but interested in this course material nevertheless, please do feel free to follow along and to engage in your own adventure in critical making on your own blog. Ping us with updates so we can learn with you!

The exact schedule is subject to modification as needs arise.

Things you need to do before the first meeting of the term

• Get a Hypothes.is account, install the browser plugin, and join the HIST3812 group.
• Annotate THIS PHRASE within the group to show you can do it.
• Annotate this website using the tags ‘weird’, ‘wonderful’, and ‘worrying’ so that we know what your concerns are, what you are excited about.
• Read and annotate the Core Philosophical Perspectives
• Get a Github account, and make a new repository there called ‘Notebook’, initialized with a ‘readme.md’ file.
• email me at shawn dot graham at carleton dot ca with ‘HIST3812 usernames’ in the subject line, telling me what your Hypothesis account name is, and your github account (ie, for Github, ‘github.com/shawngraham’ is mine.)

Weekly Pattern

Most weeks will begin with me setting the scene, discussing the major issues, and making suggestions for what you need to pay attention to in the readings. The second session each week will begin with what I am calling ‘entry tickets’, a quick piece of writing that you need to hand in to get the discussion going. These should be done before class. An entry ticket is merely one or two lines where you transcribe one sentence or quote from the reading or one of your fellow student’s annotations that really caught your attention (for whatever reason!). These entry tickets will form the basis for our discussion (and they can also be put into your open notebooks).

January

Getting Started

Jan 8 - The Big Ticket Issues, or, What is this course about and how will it work?

Jan 10 - entry ticket based on the readings listed under Core Concepts

Module 1

• Jan 15 - Photogrammetry. App based solutions: Trnio, for iOS, SCANN3D, for Android; 3DF Zephyr, camera + Windows; and finally, for Mac, Agisoft Photoscan is installed on the Underhill computer room computers for your use. Have something installed on your phone, or bring a camera. We’ll be practicing in pairs, so not everyone will need a phone etc.

• Jan 17 - Go scan. We might be using materials from the Canada Science and Technology Museum. Details will be shared with you.

• Jan 22 - Continue to scan and build models. You may use the computers in the Underhill Research Room to make your models if you are using a DSLR camera or the suggested apps don’t work well for you (you can export your photographs to a dropbox or google drive account, and then download them to these computers). To book time on the computers go to underhillresearchroom.youcanbook.me. If the doors are locked, please ask Tanya Schwartz in the History admin office to unlock them for you. You log into these computers with your regular carleton credentials.

• Jan 24 - entry ticket Mhairi Maxwell. 2017 Power is in the Process: The ACCORD project. Internet Archaeology 44, 10. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.44.10

• Jan 29 - Computational Creativity in History and Archaeology

• Jan 31 - entry ticket Beale, G. and Reilly, P. 2017 After Virtual Archaeology: Rethinking Archaeological Approaches to the Adoption of Digital Technology, Internet Archaeology 44. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.44.1 Also: Reilly, P. 2015 Palimpsests of Immaterial Assemblages Taken out of Context: Tracing Pompeians from the Void into the Digital, Norwegian Archaeological Review, DOI: 10.¹⁰⁸⁰⁄_00293652.2015.1086812

February

Module 1 Work Due by Midnight Feb 04

Module 2

• Feb 05 - History is a Remix

• Feb 07 - entry ticket Gunkel, David J. 2008 Rethinking the Digital Remix: Mash‐ups and the Metaphysics of Sound Recording. Popular Music and Society 31, no. 4: 489–510. http://resolver.scholarsportal.info/resolve/03007766/v31i0004/489_rtdrmatmosr.xml.

Also, see Tara Copplestone on Photobashing

• Feb 12 - Museums and 3d Scanning - fears, issues, and opportunities

• Feb 14 - entry ticket Jacob, Sam. 2016 The copy in contemporary culture is both despised and feared. dezeen.com Feb 25. https://www.dezeen.com/2016/02/25/sam-jacob-opinion-column-copying-conservation-contemporary-culture-queen-other-nefertiti/

Also The Life of Attributes

fyi Scan the World

Feb 19, Feb 21 Reading Week. No Classes.

Module 2 Work Due by Midnight Feb 25

Module 3

• Feb 26 - The Virtual World of the Past

Tutorial on getting historical maps into Minecraft. Required software is on the Underhill Research Room computers; I can also make minecraft available to you via our library if you don’t have a copy.

Twinery

• Feb 28 - entry ticket Kee, K, and S. Graham, 2014. Teaching History in an Age of Pervasive Computing: The Case for Games in the High School and Undergraduate Classroom. In K. Kee, ed. PastPlay, section 7.2

• Kelly, T. Mills, 2014. True Facts or False Facts—Which Are More Authentic? In K. Kee, ed. PastPlay, section 7.4

March

• Mar 05 - History in Videogames

• Mar 07 - entry ticket Copplestone, T. and Dunne, D. 2017 Digital Media, Creativity, Narrative Structure and Heritage, Internet Archaeology 44.2 https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.44.2

Graham, S. 2014. Pulling Back the Curtain: Writing History Through Video Games. In Web Writing: Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and Learning, ed. Jack Dougherty and Tennyson O’Donnell http://epress.trincoll.edu/webwriting/chapter/graham.

• Mar 12 - Archaeogaming

• Mar 14 - entry ticket Read at least two of the articles in the special themed issue of the SAA Archaeological Record, Nov 2016 edition

Module 3 Work Due by Midnight Mar 18

Module 4

• Mar 19 <- Class Cancelled; Graham to Conference. Augmented Reality and History

This lecture will be videotaped before hand

students are expected to meet together to help each other with their builds, in this timeslot A tutorial on building AR with Unity is at the Programming Historian; Unity may be downloaded for free, or you can use the version on the computers in the Underhill room.

• Mar 21 <- Class Cancelled; Graham to Conference

students are expected to meet together to help each other with their builds, in this timeslot

• Mar 26 - Politics of (un)Critical Making

• Mar 28 - entry ticket Kamash, Zena 2017. ‘Postcard to Palmyra’: bringing the public into debates over post-conflict reconstruction in the Middle East. World Archaeology https://doi.org/10.¹⁰⁸⁰⁄_00438243.2017.1406399 and Factum Foundation. 2016. “IDA Palmyra Arch Copy.” Accessed 24 April 2017. http://www.factumfoundation.org/pag/236/

April

• Apr 02 - entry ticket What Have I Learned?

• Apr 04 - exit ticket What Have We Learned?

Module 4 Work Due by Midnight FRIDAY Apr 06 NB the change of day.

• Apr 09 Digital History Fair

Your final piece is due Midnight, Apr 11 although there is the possibility of extension should needs arise

There is no final exam.