We are very pleased to offer a digital humanities BootCamp during both days (Saturday, October 23rd and Sunday, October 24th) of THATCamp PNW.

BootCamp will consist of seven educational, hands-on sessions on how to use technology in the humanities:

• “Project Planning for Multimodal Scholarship: A Whiteboard Approach to Designing Projects with Digital Video, Audio, and Images in Mind” (Facilitated by John Barber, Dene Grigar, Maria Schenk, and Will Leurs, Creative Media & Digital Culture, Washington State University Vancouver)
• “Bootstrapping Your Digital Humanities Project: How to Pull Together a Team and Work Collaboratively (Virtually or Otherwise) throughout a Project Lifecycle” (Facilitated by Julie Meloni, University of Victoria)
• “Research Lovelab: Explore Zotero 2.0 and Find Your Academic Soulmates” (Facilitated by Anna Bjartmarsdottir and Deb Raftus, University of Washington Libraries)
• “Collaborative Mapping Using OpenStreetMap and Walking Papers” (Facilitated by Dave Lester, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities)
• “3D Modeling for Fabrication: Using Rhino 3D to Design and Produce Physical Objects” (Facilitated by Meghan Trainor, University of Washington Digital and Experimental Arts)
• “How NOT to Teach Video Games: Designing Modules that Convince Digital Natives to Play Awake” (Facilitated by Tim Welsh, University of Washington English)
• “Integrating Usability Testing into Humanities Scholarship: Learning to Sample Test Your Designs and Ideas” (Facilitated by Brett Oppegaard and John Barber, Creative Media & Digital Culture, Washington State University Vancouver)

Exact dates and times for each BootCamp session will be posted here soon.  Thank you for your patience.

Mellon Micro-Fellowships for BootCamp

Through generous funding from the Mellon Foundation, we are able to offer micro-fellowships in the amount of $500 to selected individuals who participate in all the BootCamp sessions and write a brief report/evaluation.

The micro-fellowships, which are to be used for travel expenses, will be awarded to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, or pre-tenure faculty who clearly plan to pursue further digital work, who clearly have the potential to learn useful lessons at BootCamp, and, most importantly, who are pursuing independent research that will clearly benefit from digital methods.

You can indicate that you would like to be considered for a BootCamp fellowship on the THATCamp PNW application.  Please submit your application by September 1st.

If you have questions about BootCamp, then please don’t hesitate to email us at THATCampPNW@gmail.com.