Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis
About the Poetic Media Lab
The Poetic Media Lab is a Digital Humanities research and design group based in the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) at Stanford. We design and build creative platforms that promote new ways of conducting research, teaching, and learning in the 21st century.
Featured Project
One of our main projects is Lacuna, a collaborative platform for research, learning and teaching. By enabling social annotation features, the platform allows complex and comparative engagement with different forms of media concerning an academic topic.
Featured Lab Member
Tiffany Zhu is a freshman interested in economics and planning coursework in MCS. At CESTA, she is helping create data visualizations for Lacuna, an online learning platform specially designed for the needs of teachers of literature.
Introducing Lacuna for Writing
Thursday, November 2, 2017 - 18:17
In collaboration with Julia Azar Rubin, an MA student at the Graduate School of Education, Poetic Media Lab is developing a platform that harnesses Lacuna's annotation and data visualization tools to allow instructors to give students feedback on their writing more easily. Instead of feedback in the margins of papers that can get lost or misplaced and never looked at again, Lacuna for Writing keeps all of a student's feedback in one place, available at a glance, by allowing instructors to annotate their students' work and then categorize these annotations according to types of feedback. Stay tuned for a prototype in Spring, 2018!
