English in the Modern World
Throughout my entire middle and high school English experience, I was mainly taught to analyze literature in a traditional manner. Although sometimes assignments were interesting (including one inspired by Pride & Prejudice & Zombies), they all were fairly similar: a standard paper or presentation detailing my analysis of a book. While these can be good tools for analyzing and understanding a piece of literature, after a while they have gotten stale and monotonous. Due to this, the new digital humanities tools have been a breath of fresh air.
As a tech-oriented person, I love experimenting with different platforms and new technology. When being shown Neatline, I immediately jumped into playing with different settings and abilities of the platform. Neatline and the other tools we've been presented allow me to analyze the books we read in different ways that a paper just can't. They've unlocked new areas of analysis, such as looking at the geographical aspect of a story or creating a timeline to visually express how the story progresses. In the modern world, technology provides us so many opportunities to learn and explore that previous generations haven't had. With the digital humanities tools, we can utilize some of those opportunities to increase the depth of our analysis and understanding.
It's been a pleasure to read and view the work you've created in these platforms, Jenna!
ReplyDeleteI remember looking through your Neatline presentations in the first quarter and loving all of the different ways you used the platform. I would not consider myself a "tech oriented person," so using neatline was definitely a learning experience, but in the end I also found it to be a great resource!!
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