Digital Project for Art and Archaeology of the Greco-Roman Near East and Egypt
Aims: In this brave new digital world, all students need to educate themselves about how to use and how to engage with technology. In this course, students are asked to create a digital project, a website, about a certain object, building or site from the Greco-Roman Near East or Egypt. This paper combines researching an object or building in a conventional manner (library, archival and site research) with developing digital skills as well.
In past years, I would have had students write a 20-page (5000-7000 word) paper about an object or building, identifying the object’s salient features and context, as well as analyzing the significance of the object.
This same aim will be asked of students; however, the format in which students are expected to do this is not a traditional paper, but rather a website. Students will select an object or site and create a website dedicated to an object, building or site.
I am currently research a Column from Jerash that is located in Queens with Jared Simard.
This is a beta version of website: https://columnofgerash.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
It is to serve as a model for a website that students will build using wordpress
Theme: Twenty-Eleven (using one template for ease)
Units of the Assignment (this assignment will be structured, since it is not something that one can do last minute!)
- Introduction to wordpress
- Tutorial on wordpress with Andrew McKinney, Digital Fellow, CUNY Graduate Center – March 20th
- Select site / building to research
- Establish pages and menus – April 10th
- Complete annotated bibliography and webograpy – April 24th
- Research site
- Create individual pages for aspects of the object / building (via drop-down menu)
- Discuss significance of the object
- Locate photographs for use on the site
- May 8: Website presentations and critiques
- Complete Project – FINAL Digital Projects due Monday May 20th at 9 am
