How do you get students unfamiliar with HTML and
back end development to build a born-digital exhibit? Why does digital
humanities offer particularly meaningful ways of bringing together original
research contributions on emerging discourses, patterns of communication, and
information on marginalized peoples? This presentation will share steps to
building a digital humanities project with undergraduates, and point you to
free, public and open source tools for exploring and presenting information
visually and textually. I'll explain how lessons learned have contributed to
adjustments in the second round of [ZOMBIES REIMAGINED], and how I'm
currently collaborating with digital librarians for the backend development and
conceptualizing of this project. I'll also share how I've greatly
benefitted from including these tools in my teaching, and how students are
currently responding to this experience in Spring 2017.