Register now for this December 4 workshop -- held on all Five College campuses with simulcast links -- for a low-barrier introduction to computer-supported text analysis in the classroom.
Location: Your campus! (Hybrid Virtual/In-person Workshop, details below)
Date: Saturday, 4 DEC 2021
Time: 10:00-1:30
Computing allows us to ask questions of texts at scale: students can now "read" all of Shakespeare's works, Austen's novels, or American presidents' inaugural addresses (to name but three examples). Voyant is a web-based portal that facilitates such textual analysis. Visitors can either use default textual datasets or they can explore their own texts. The expansive interface allows researchers to choose from a suite of textual analysis tools to customize the experience and to explore texts through a variety of lenses. Much of this kind of analysis, however, still requires the discerning eye of the subject specialist -- or burgeoning specialists -- to contextualize the patterns and "interpretations" revealed by our machines.
In this simulcast workshop we posit Voyant as a low-barrier entry point for teachers and students interested in thinking with and through textual analysis. Workshop participants will:
- examine the settings in the default Voyant interface
- get hands-on experience using different tools within Voyant
- learn from OH5 colleagues' experiences teaching with Voyant
- discuss pedagogical applications for textual analysis with Voyant
- experiment on small textual datasets (or bring your own to explore!)
The unique design of this virtual Ohio Five workshop presentation brings together participants on their local campuses for a "satellite" workshop experience. A local representative from each of the five colleges will host their colleagues in a convenient location on their own campus, orchestrate the communal viewing of the virtual workshop, and act as a resource in the room for any questions that arise. These local hosts will also be able to maintain all local protocols for safe gatherings.
If you are interested in participating in this workshop, please use this link (also pasted below) to register. Your Local Host will follow-up with you with details for your meeting location.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/GWaDE6p69x4BbbSF8