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Leah Chase is an undeclared freshman, hoping to double major in English and Art History. In her free time, she enjoys reading and writing poetry, discovering new music, and taking lots and lots of walks.

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Shatature (Literature of the Palestinian shatāt)

How would a map of Palestinian culture look like? The world system of literary production for Palestinians has been globally spread out since the Nakba (1948) and their dispersion throughout the Arab and Western world (the shatāt). Mapping diasporic or exilic literature begs a global perspective as well as a dynamic tool that can track movement and change across time and space. This Digital Humanities project visually maps the circulation, international movement, and (im)mobility of Palestinian authors and specific Palestinian texts.

Announcements

Lacuna Launches 'Knowledge Base' for Instructors

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

By analyzing best practices for student learning using digital annotation, the Poetic Media Lab has refined model assignments, in-class activities, and steps for instructors to manage and curate annotations for more effective lectures and classroom discussions. The Knowledge Base has sample assignments, lesson plans, in-class activities, and more, all organized by topic and theme tags.

Poetic Media Lab Launches "Reader Study"

Sunday, July 24, 2016

After a year of study design and platform development, the Poetic Media Lab launched its first reader study in July. Hosted on an open-source platform they built at www.readerstudy.com, Reader Study allows researchers to upload texts, create pre- and post-reading questions, and break participants into different cohorts to empirically ask how different readers engage with literary text

Lacuna/EPIC Community College Symposium

Saturday, May 14, 2016

Over the past year, Poetic Media Lab members Brian Johnsrud, Emily Schneider, and Daniel Bush have worked with faculty at Foothill Community College as they adopted Lacuna to help transform their curriculum. On May 14, 2016, team members and faculty collaborators shared their success with the platform.

Lacuna Team Presents at Microsoft Berlin

Friday, May 20, 2016

Brian Johnsrud and Daniel Bush presented at Microsoft Berlin this week, as part of the "iAnnotate Conference," which focuses on the future of digital annotation.

Lacuna Team explores "Critical Reading" in Annotations

Monday, June 27, 2016

In a new project headed by Emily Schneider and Iris Howley in Stanford's Lytics Lab, student annotations are being analyzed using natural langauge processing to see if patterns emerge to distinguish different annotations as taking part in characteristics of critical reading.

Poetic Media Lab Receives Hoagland Award

Monday, June 29, 2015

Amir Eshel and Brian Johnsrud received a Stanford Hoagland Award for Innovations in Undergraduate Education. This grant, along with a seed grant from the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, will support the launch of a new project in the Poetic Media Lab: Poetic Thinking.

Lab Members Attend Digital Humanities Summer Institute

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Brian Johnsrud and Daniel Bush, both Phd researchers in CESTA's Poetic Media Lab, attended the University of Victoria's Digital Humanities Summer Institute, for a week of "Drupal for Digital Humanists." Look out for a couple new projects in the lab being launched soon as a result of this great week!

Foothill Faculty Collaborate using Poetic Media Lab's "Lacuna Stories"

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Four faculty members from the English Department at Foothill Community College participating in the EPIC (Education Partnership to Internationalize Curriculum) Fellowship program are using their fellowship year to collaborate with Lacuna Stories in creating new curricular units for their courses.

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