Visual Essay Assignment Instructions

The goal of this assignment is to build an interactive mini-exhibit or visual essay that includes primary source material and commentary on that material. I encourage you to select a topic related to your final project, if relevant. You may choose to tell a story about your topic that is illustrated with media, analyze and comment on the media items individually, or analyze and comment on the items as a collection.

Your project should be live on the web and it should include:

• A title
• 4-6 visual/media resources with metadata and citation information
• A bibliography with detailed citations
• Text of 300-500 words

Deadline: April 1418 on Moodle (assignment submission link)

Tools

• Timeline JS
  • Images, videos, websites (hosted on the web) - best for a time-based narrative or item commentary
• Storymaps JS - images, videos, websites (hosted on the web) - best for a geospatially located narrative or item commentary
• Exhibit.so - images hosted with IIIF capabilities - best for item commentary, including fine-grained image analysis
• CollectionBuilder - best for presentation of a curated set of items (text goes on the ‘About’ page)
• Juncture - any images hosted on the web, with special features for IIIF and Wikimedia Commons images
• Other tools with permission of instructor