This quick Storify captures many of the tweets from our THATCamp. If you created an archive of the event- an Evernote notebook, Instagram images, bookmarks, a Google doc, etc.- that you’d like to share, please share it here (as a link in the comments or in a post of your own).

Please do the same with workshop and session notes: create a blog post, Google doc, or something else freely accessible online, then find the session proposal post and add links to the notes in the comments.

Project management is one of the most central skills to have on any digital project team  yet the role of project manager is one for which many of us receive little or no training. Many projects get derailed because they lack a team member whose job it is to take charge of planning, scheduling, and tracking the work required for a project to be successful (as well as getting his/her hands dirty when things fall apart). In this workshop, I will present some important areas of project management to consider and share some of my own success and failures:

• project goals and contribution
• environmental scans
• building a team
• project planning
• roles and responsibilities
• workflow and communication
• gathering institutional support
• funding
• credit and attribution
• outreach
• sustainability

I’ll also share some resources from other experienced digital project managers for further reading. Come join me if you are working on a digital project or thinking about starting one in the future!

UPDATE: Here are my slides and a list of resources for further reading.

Omeka.net is a web-publishing platform that allows anyone with an account to create or collaborate on a website to display collections and build digital exhibitions (“About,” Omeka.net).

In this workshop for THATCampers with no previous experience with Omeka, we will:

• talk about use cases for Omeka
• look at some Omeka projects
• describe the difference between omeka.net site and running your own instance of Omeka
• talk about plug-ins
• add items to an archive
• assign metadata

If there is interest, following this workshop will be a session dedicated to running your own instance of Omeka through Amazon Web Services (which is free for a year). If you are interested in this, please see my session proposal which has information about what you will need to participate.

If you are interested in creating an Omeka.net site, please sign up for and activate a Basic (free) Omeka.net account before you arrive. You might also bring a laptop with some practice files to upload to your new Omeka.net site!

This workshop examines the basic contours of copyright law as it applies in scholarly communication. What is intellectual property, what is the public domain, and how does fair use apply? What should be in a request when permission is needed, and what is worth negotiating for? Finally, what rights do scholars have as creators of intellectual property and how can those rights be exercised?

This workshop will discuss digital presentation tools, such as Prezi, Empressr, and Slideshare, as dynamic and engaging alternatives to PowerPoint. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop and an idea for a presentation.

Digital Presentation Tools Resources

This workshop will explore  some of the major questions and methodologies of digital humanities (DH). We will briefly highlight some of the major research areas of DH, including mapping and textual analysis. After taking a look at a few DH projects, we’ll see how simple tools like Google’s nGram viewer can be of use to researchers.

Potential questions we’ll examine include:

• What are some potential areas of research in digital humanities?
• How might my research benefit from DH?
• Where can I find out more about DH?

When people talk about digital storytelling, they usually mean the use of some form of media production to share a story. I want to propose a session in which we explore possibilities for designing assignments that ask students to present information with digital tools and share their artifacts publicly. Thus, we will think about the process of digital story telling broadly, as a synthesis between research (or information gathering) and narrative (or argument).

For example, I’ve been working with a history professor at my school to develop an assignment where students practice historical reflection with data sites like Google’s Ngram Viewer, Baby Name Wizard, the Oxford English Dictionary, and the U.S. Census Bureau. Students can create narratives that show changes in time, and with tools like Timeline JS, they can create a product that looks good and can be shared almost anywhere online. My example looks at the language we use to describe people who serve us on airplanes.

In this workshop, we can talk about digital tools that invite students to locate information, ideas, and data and construct narratives that can be presented to others on websites. We can also look at other tools like Storify, History Pin, Sliderocket, and others, and we’ll actually try to build some content (so you may want to bring a laptop or tablet).

Has anyone else used web tools to have students generate digital stories? What are some of the challenges involved in facilitating digital storytelling projects?