**DRAFT**

40% of Final Course Grade

Digital Humanities
in Northeast Texas (final webtext) Due Week 14, Sunday (midnight)

Overview Tools
For your final project, you will develop a webtext for a public audience that Weebly
communicates some aspect of life in Northeast Texas. Your webtext should Audacity
communicate that complex information in a straightforward way. Essentially the Jaycut
final webtexts produced in this course should offer effective companion sites to the Zotera
course text Memoirs of Old ET and/or the Texas A&M-Commerce Digital Dropbox
Collections.

Milestones
Components
[Week 10]
Final webtexts will be produced in teams of no more than three members and may
Submit Group Project Contract
involve a major reworking of one or more of the DMPs or other projects produced
in this course, appropriate design, and extensive use of reflective elements and
[Week 11]
other materials. Web projects make it possible to combine a range of channels of
communication (i.e., linguistic, gestural, spatial, etc) into a single text. Your Submit Site Overview
project should take advantage of these possibilities and develop through several
[Week 12]
stages, from initial overview to final presentation.
Submit Wireframe with Design Plan
Submit Working Bibliography
Site Content
[Week 13]
Site content will include the following: (OVERVIEW) short introduction to site
Revision Plan/Storyboard Due
contents; (TEXT) a significant multimodal texts (audio, video, photoessay, etc)
Week 14: Final Webtext Due!
revealing extensive and appropriate use of archival materials and deep revision;
(ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS) bibliography of all source materials, including
relevant statement regarding creative rights for each; (RESEARCH ETHICS Content Required
statement) a statement regarding IRB protocol, (PROFILE) brief profile from
author; (FREE ZONE) any additional, relevant contributions that might enhance Site Overview
the website’s overall goals and purposes.

Multimodal Text
Collaboration
All team members ultimately share equal responsibility for the quality of the
website you produce, but along the way each of you will bring different strengths Acknowledgements
and expertise to the project. Each member of the group needs to be involved at Research Ethics
each stage of the project. For details on how this will proceed, visit the syllabus or
watch for regular conversations on the subject as the course progresses.
Profile

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