Over the past two and a half months, I have had the pleasure of directly supervising the Tongue Team\u00a0project as a silkworm.\u00a0 Frankly, I feel like I got the best part of the deal\u2014I got to be a part of two different teams: the teaching team and the student team. From the very beginning, before the students were even involved, the teaching team (made up of 2 professors, 3 library\/tech specialists, and 4 TAs\/silkworms) knew that we wanted the center of this course to be a research project on a student-generated topic completed as a group and presented online. We were not sure how to get to this end goal, but we knew that that was where we were aiming. I served as the middle-man between my group and our professors, an overseer of group dynamics and timely progress, a strict editor, and a morale-booster (hence my alias). At times, the only help I could provide was asking if they were being overly ambitious given, our time constraints. At others, my contribution was sitting at a round table in the library proof-reading for six hours straight. There were bumps along the way, as to be expected, but, standing here at the end, I am amazed at how magnificently this project came to embody our dream for the course. We hoped that students would find a topic they could really be excited about; we hoped they could create something that they could share with the world. I genuinely hope that they are as proud of themselves as I am of them. I anticipate that digital humanities will continue to gain momentum and evolve throughout my lifetime. This is just the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Over the past two and a half months, I have had the pleasure of directly supervising the Tongue Team\u00a0project as a silkworm.\u00a0 Frankly, I feel like I got the best part of the deal\u2014I got to be a part of two different teams: the teaching team and the student team. From the very beginning, before … Continue reading All's Well that Ends Well<\/span>