LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
By the end of this course, students will be able to
(1) identify elements of digital curation as creative and intellectual enabling; adding value and argument to content;
(2) demonstrate a self-awareness of their own forms of curation, including social media;
(3) articulate some of the challenges and benefits of open data and the Creative Commons movement, their global ethics and inequities;
(4) convey basic principles of data literacy (2018);
(5) articulate how design decisions are important to building interpretative exhibits of digital content (2018);
(6) demonstrate some of the ways that they are “on the way to computational thinking” (Berry/Fagerjord);
(7) employ both web hosting and Wikito build digital content;
(8) write a regular, online research blog;
(9) explain how they use digitized primary source material to build a collective digital exhibit (2018);
(10) curate an individual exhibit based on open cultural content of the student’s choice.