Dear Future Student,

Hello! Welcome to Digital Humanities! This class will welcome you into a bucket of useful tools that will change the way you navigate documents for the rest of your life! This course name sounds very scary but trust me it’s not! This class will challenge you in a positive way. Digital Humanities will test your patience, your prior knowledge of tech and your ability to try new things that you may, or may not, enjoy.

Some of the most important things I learned this semester was how technology has evolved din the way it has in the Digital Humanities space. Many exhibits and digital documents are analyzed through tools. A really cool tool that actually has changed the way I view is the ability of tagging. Tagging is a system where a person, or robot, goes through a document or photo and analyzes it to make it easier to categorize. This is what search engines use to give you your information quickly and effectively.

My advice to a student who is approaching this class is to not be scared and to not take this class tooooo seriously. Enjoy it. Take these tools and utilize them in your life. Consider this class a workshop to help you navigate and understand infostructures that have been created for us to be able to make history and art be utilized in an online or digital presence. For an example a skill that I use DAILY is the tool where we can create a works-cited based off your search history. This is a prime example of how categorizing and digitalizing can impact your daily habits.

Good luck and have fun! (: