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Blogpost Assignment: Archive Find of the Week

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Student perusing the finding aid to the Ntozake Shange Collection

Dear class, now that you’ve had some collective exposure to The Ntozake Shange Collection and the archives, you should be planning to go on your own to explore and consider how you might help the archive speak to others through your digital story.  This means, as Brianna pointed out on Monday, journeying between the archives, the class readings and Scalar.

Any time before Thanksgiving break, you will write a post about an item found during your archival research.  It does not have to be something you  will use in your project. Pretend you are writing a caption label (20-150 words) and then include some discussion of the following:

Week 9: Our well-told story & unexpected metadata

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Original sketch for the Wedding Dress from the collection sketchbook; Fall-Winter 1988;  Pulled from the internet. Photo Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent

I hope everyone had a restorative spring break! This week at ICP we will work collaboratively and individually: first, we’ll work with Sarah so that she can get started on the website and then you will be work more on your individual projects in concert with Bradly. Our class schedule:

  • Discussion of Kiani & Dania’s blogposts (30-ish mins)
  • Sarah Greene directs discussion of look/feel of website (60 mins?)
  • Scanning, editing of project materials.(remaining time).

 

 

To prepare:

READ Kiani and Dania’s blogposts; notes from last website discussion

SKIM (if time) the Well-Told story posts of your peers

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