Melissa Shortt -Great Bay Community College
Professor Emily Hinnov
Link: www.she-steps-from-the-shadows.com
From the author:
I've created a website that reflects the ways in which women have been othered throughout literary history. This dates back to the bible, and brings us up to the present day. However, it is still a work in progress, and will continue to evolve to include further literature.
Comments from the Judges: Melissa Shortt’s website is beautifully designed, and the “welcome” video is an evocative introduction to this important topic. Small details, such as the fanciful logo in the lower left corner and the invitation to chat in the lower right, add to the sense of arriving somewhere with significance. The information and included texts in the tabs of the timeline are well presented and well chosen, and there is an exciting sense of this as a substantial work in process by a creative and passionate student.
Olivia MacNeil – UNH
Professor Melinda White
Link: https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/68ee0afda1b98d92afc9e8d96943294a/genesis/index.html
From the author: I wanted to examine generational trauma and the idea of the family tree-- both in a literal and metaphorical sense-- through the places I grew up in. Each setting provides memories through the eyes of a child as well as my reflections as an adult, and I ultimately want people who have gone through similar childhood experiences as me or those who have distant family members to feel less alone and more hopeful by the end
Comments from the Judges: Olivia MacNeils’s story map was a standout among the personal essay submissions, very well-executed in terms of both story and graphics. The writing is exceptional, and the map graphic that zooms in closer from page to page as the writer becomes more and more aware is very clever and draws the reader along on her journey.
Lydia Zungy – UNH
Professor Krista Jackman
From the author: I created a video about my journey with being hearing impaired and receiving a hearing aid for the first time. I use my own personal photos and images from the internet to guide viewers through my experience
Comments from the Judges: Lydia Zungy created a video that gives the viewer an inspirational journey of her issues with hearing loss and revelations after deciding to wear a hearing aid. It is a brief but engaging story of fear and triumph set to music.
1st Place: Julia Danielson, UNH
Professor Melinda White
Link: https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1709785870128645091
From the author: My project is an interactive hypertextual analysis of the harmful stereotypes within Disney Princess films and magazines. I use ThingLink to combine images, music, collage, poetry and literature to move the story
2nd Place: Lily Neher & Company
Professor Kevin Healey
From the artist: We created a multimedia project honors the life of Tyre Nichols, called A Gorgeous Mosaic of People. It aims to combine dance and social justice through art. It features footage of Nichols skateboarding and several of his photographs, with original music composition by Kevin Healey and choreography by Lily Neher. Dancers include Rhianwen Watkins, Jon Donahue, and Lily Neher.
3rd Place: Jessie Grant - Manchester Community College
Professor Tom Dunn
From the author: A fictional story. This is about the ethics of having children forced into being athletes.
1st Place: Maggie Joyce - UNH
Strawberry Banke
Professor Kimberly Alexander
Link: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/b098fef235e04395b49b680ec1aa2cea
From the author: For this project, I worked to utilize digital tools, including photogrammetry and 3D modeling, Esri Story Map, photography, and digital mapping, to help display and interpret a collection of archaeological ceramic artifacts from the Strawbery Banke Museum collections. I worked with the Archaeology Department at Strawbery Banke Museum to utilize their artifacts in this research and worked with the University of New Hampshire's Collaboration, Arts, & Technology Lab to create 3D models of the artifacts. I also photographed the objects and created digital maps as additional visual aids. I used excavation reports and other sources to research the artifacts and their contexts to discuss how these artifacts typified their ceramic type, how they may have been utilized, and what they can reveal about local figures in Portsmouth and wider concepts like Portsmouth's involvement in transatlantic commerce.
From the Judges: This project is the most advanced in terms of how physical artifacts can be digitalized to tell one small piece of a much greater history. The University of New Hampshire's Collaboration, Arts, & Technology Lab 3D models of the artifacts provides a digital museum at the viewer’s fingertips. By turning the “drinking wares” with our mouse, we can almost imagine each delicate cup in the palm of our hand. The Esri Storyboard, then, reconstructed the narrative of the artifacts, location, people, way of life, in a digital map and timeline, one we also felt we could travel as we made these new discoveries. Professional, academic, interactive, a true mining of history with an artifact we can visit over and over again, with one click, under our fingers.
2nd Place: Olivia MacNeil - UNH
"50 Years from Now"
Professor Melinda White
Link: https://thinkdiff.carrd.co/
From the author: We are constantly thinking about the future. Whether it be tomorrow, a week from now, or 100 years down the line, we all seem to have a fascination of what could be. In 1999, many were convinced the turn of the year would bring technological reign down on humanity, but little predicted terrorist. attacks just two years later. Self-driving cars were the most popular envision for 2020 rather than a pandemic taking the lives of millions. The future can bring comfort in the form of hope or fear in dystopian imagery- and in the information-overload age, both are spreading faster than ever before. The future is a double-edged sword of power, and the holder--influenced by personal and societal structures-- chooses how to yield it. In a time where political, social, environmental, and technological issues are amplified on platforms most have access to, this project aims to answer one question: where do we see ourselves 50 vears from now?
Comments from the Judges: What was most impressive about this project was how it employed a diversity of “real voices” about our future, first from the persuasive and beautifully honest narrative of the project’s author (“My red flag is that I am, self-described, annoyingly optimistic…”) to the divergent ideas about politics, technology, the planet, social lives that emerge as we move through the presentation. The experience of the digital project is interactive for the audience and leaves us wondering what our swath of opinion might look like in black and white ink.
3rd Place: John Shortis - UNH
Education and Injustice
Professor Alex Holznienkemper
Link: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5ac46a25b524467fa0388a4cc3d31708
From the author: A comparative digital presentation of arrest rates for drug crimes and how they compare to prison populations as well as income across America. This project tells the story of the history of racial and educational inequality in America.
Comments from the Judges: This project is so important in a nation that has left the quality of education and, for the most part, the issuance of crime and punishment in the very diverse (and divergent) hands of state government. The visual narrative the project tells allows the viewer to connect important dots, as though we are viewing an Autostereogram. As we move through the maps, the author does not assert or insert and invites the reader to draw important conclusions as the nation is awash in color.
1st Place: Natalia Rivera, Anna Madden, Mackenzie MacEachern, Zoe Michael - UNH
Professor Melinda White
From the authors: My peers and I created a virtual tour for the Maine MILL Museum located in Lewiston Maine. We created a virtual tour using Thing Link and iMovie to create an accessible tour for the museums homepage. By creating this project we have been able to reach a larger audience for the museum and allow the museums to come alive in a new digital age.
Comments from the Judges: Excellent collaboration to help a community organization with a well-designed website that incorporates diverse elements, including audio/oral histories, images, and important information.
2nd Place: Ashley Tsimtsos, UNH
"Wicket Woman"
Professor David Kaye
From the author: My capstone Wicked Woman attempts to address just that; “What makes a woman, wicked?”, all the while veraciously looking at the experiences of six different women, in which three truly existed, and three were fictional and created through theatre and/or literature. In doing so, as we also dive further into simultaneously viewing some sort of extension of each woman, either portrayed as their reflection, a physicalization, a shadow, or a complete additional embodiment, audiences will be able to grasp not only the raw reality of these women’s lives but also come to terms with their own definition of what truly makes a woman villainous.
Comments from the Judges: Creative and interesting use of source material and original material for stage production, filmed with lighting and sound.
3rd Place: Ava Garcia
Professor Melinda White
Link: https://earth.google.com/earth/d/1O1quga8fkoqzpo7_v9Ou591JWSC6LjEn?usp=sharing
From the author: My project is a documentation of my experience studying abroad this past summer through the UNH in Italy Program. Using Google Earth street view and pictures I personally took throughout my trip, I wanted to create a story that immersed the reader and makes it feel like they are experiencing this trip themselves.
Comments from the Judges: Good use of space with Google Earth, including sights, experiences, and locations
Featuring projects that are persuasive/compelling in nature
Hanna Holmgren, UNH
Violent crime against gender-variant people continues to be a concern. One suggestion to address this issue involves educating law enforcement on the role they can play in solving cases with gender-variant victims and working within this community. This research was conducted to trace the history of this relationship, with goal of including aspects of it in a training module that is currently being developed, on this topic, for law enforcement
https://hannaholmgren9.wixsite.com/tracking-police-tran
See More (UNH English Department Projects)
Julia Danielson, UNH
My project is an interactive hypertextual analysis of the harmful stereotypes within Disney Princess films and magazines. I use ThingLink to combine images, music, collage, poetry and literature to move the story
https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1709785870128645091
See More (UNH English Department Projects)
Jessie Grant, Manchester Community College
A fictional story. This is about the ethics of having children forced into being athletes.
https://youtu.be/s9vOESA4H78
See More (MCC)
Lily Neher & Company, UNH
We created a multimedia project honors the life of Tyre Nichols, called A Gorgeous Mosaic of People. It aims to combine dance and social justice through art. It features footage of Nichols skateboarding and several of his photographs, with original music composition by Kevin Healey and choreography by Lily Neher. Dancers include Rhianwen Watkins, Jon Donahue, and Lily Neher.
https://youtu.be/sJnJs116koE
See More (THDA)
Kim Pham, UNH
For my final project, I chose to do an independent creative project instead of the prompt option. My idea for my project was to write a children’s book that touches based on real world issues, such as racism and expose children to it at a younger age.
Maeve Flusser, UNH
I created and planned out my "Feminist Film" website throughout the entire Fall 2022 semester. Feminist Film works to promote a film industry with realistic female characters. My goal is to prevent harmful gendered stereotypes and promote positive female representation in movies and TV. I extensively researched feminist theory as well as website design to make my project.
https://feministfilm.wixsite.com/feministfilm
Maddie Hadwen, UNH
This website was designed for a capstone project and presented at the Education Symposium in April. The website is a unit plan proposal that discusses how to increase students reading level while allowing students the freedom of choice in their literature within the classroom. The suggested unit plan has students choosing first their book club which is broken up by genre, and then allows students the right to choose their text which is provided on a reading ladder. Students would be provided with reading ladders created by a school librarian with a set list of books that have the potential to appeal to the young readers and challenge them.
https://madalynhadwen.wixsite.com/reading-freely-with
Featuring contributions from new & emerging students
Annie Merrill, Manchester Community College
My project is a website and pamphlet with few lists of books about different types of diversity and inclusion. It is aimed towards the parents of toddlers and early elementary students.
https://merrillamana.wixsite.com/free-to-be-me
See More (MCC)
Lydia Zungy, UNH
I created a video about my journey with being hearing impaired and receiving a hearing aid for the first time. I use my own personal photos and images from the internet to guide viewers through my experience
https://youtu.be/CbWq65EbaXo
See More (UNH English Deparment Projects)
Brittany Johnson, NHTI Concord
For my project I focused on the sacrifices that mothers in Iran have made and continue to make. These sacrifices range from physical, letting their young children leave the country without them, to emotional, separating from loved ones and becoming reclusive.
http://641c86d713a3a.site123.me/
See More (NHTI Humanities)
Sophia Schlichtmann, UNH
"Freedom and Constraint: The Pythian Oracle," is set in Delphi, Greece, 8th century BC. The short film depicts a day in the life of a Pythia: the high priestess, who gave oracles at the temple at Delphi. The Pythia had freedom in the fact that she was a woman in ancient Greece who could act "hysterically," and still have her words taken seriously. She was however, constrained by the fact that she was considered the "mouthpiece" of the Greek god Apollo, and that he "tamed" her words and hysterical actions. The Pythia was further constrained as she was often under the control of male priests. This video project was presented at the "Live Free" symposium, on April 7, 2023.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY_U9tUJYVU
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Jessie Grant, Manchester Community College
A short film about Hypatia of Alexandria and what it was like to be a female philosopher in the ancient world. This is the first short film I made.
https://youtu.be/9zp3Cx3ToOU
See More (MCC)
Melissa Shortt, Great Bay Community College
I've created a website that reflects the ways in which women have been othered throughout literary history. This dates back to the bible, and brings us up to the present day. However, it is still a work in progress, and will continue to evolve to include further literature.
www.she-steps-from-the-shadows.com
See More (GBCC)
Olivia MacNeil, UNH
I wanted to examine generational trauma and the idea of the family tree-- both in a literal and metaphorical sense-- through the places I grew up in. Each setting provides memories through the eyes of a child as well as my reflections as an adult, and I ultimately want people who have gone through similar childhood experiences as me or those who have distant family members to feel less alone and more hopeful by the end
https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/68ee0afda1b98d92afc9e8d96943294a/genesis/index.html
See More (UNH English Department Projects)
Featuring contributions that engage with narrative, and storytelling
Jade Kwitkiwski, UNH
Through memory and reflection, four students across various backgrounds describe their present experience of being a person of color at a PWI. Their stories shed light on hidden or unheard realities that affect their daily lives. "the eight percent" title pays homage to a movement founded in 2017 known as the "8 Percentspeaks" at the University of New Hampshire, an active body of students who stood for change and greater cultural awareness.
https://youtu.be/0CmT83L8zP4
John Shortis, UNH
A comparative digital presentation of arrest rates for drug crimes and how they compare to prison populations as well as income across America. This project tells the story of the history of racial and educational inequality in America.
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5ac46a25b524467fa0388a4cc3d31708
Jesse Grant, Manchester Community College
This is a health-related dramatization of a true story about my life. This is a subject I am very passionate about.
Students of Shakespeare, UNH English
With Professor Doug Lanier
Our project features a moment from Act 5 Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. It is a work that has the lines overlaid with the video as many films have done over the years.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wP4Mm8rh-WFeSjpmdyueza0gfaPu9uFI/view?usp=drivesdk
Katie Clayton, UNH
In this project, I explore my indigenous genealogical heritage through the lens of fabricated cyanotypes. I wanted to illustrate my connection to nature growing up as well as my matriarchal family values, both core values of mine. Cyanotypes were arguably the first means of photography, using chemical processing, UV rays from the sun, and water to produce the first transferred images of botanical documentation. This process feels very natural, so it only felt right to honor this method by capturing my story through the cyan-hued lens.y and culture.
https://youtu.be/0xaCipFnjDA
Maine Mills Project, UNH English 510
With Professor Melinda White
In Fall 2022, the English 510: Introduction to Digital Humanities class took part in a digital curation assignment, working with the now rebranded Maine Museum of Innovation, Learning, and Labor (formerly Museum L/A). The class worked in two project teams. One created a 360 virtual tour for The Industrial Heart exhibit, with text, images, and videos of the work in the exhibit from the shoe, brick, and textile industries, as well as artwork interpretations from those industries. The audio team digitized audio, edited photos, composed interview summaries, and organized the materials for 15 histories, building the foundation for the museum’s new oral histories database. See their projects and contributions on the new Maine MILL website on the virtual tours and oral histories pages: https://mainemill.org/
Featuring contributions that engage with narrative, and storytelling
Natalia Rivera, UNH
I created this electronic cookbook to intertwine the fond memories of my family and how the food that we eat work together. Food is a love language in our family. Cooking these unique dishes allow me to express my love for my family and culture.
https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1706808540145910373
Ashley Tsimtsos, UNH
My capstone Wicked Woman attempts to address just that; “What makes a woman, wicked?”, all the while veraciously looking at the experiences of six different women, in which three truly existed, and three were fictional and created through theatre and/or literature. In doing so, as we also dive further into simultaneously viewing some sort of extension of each woman, either portrayed as their reflection, a physicalization, a shadow, or a complete additional embodiment, audiences will be able to grasp not only the raw reality of these women’s lives but also come to terms with their own definition of what truly makes a woman villainous.
https://youtu.be/L7-nEgqlXPQ
Keri Stewart, UNH
This project is a digital stop motion that follows the narrative of a series of four Tanka poems I wrote to tell a story. Each poem features nonsensical, abstract phrases that convey a sense of betrayal and the journey of trying to move past it. This project is the combination of stop motion with poetry to touch upon abstract concepts like betrayal as a means of working through such a journey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ondDu5nPEwg
Natalia Rivera, Anna Madden, Mackenzie MacEachern, Zoe Michael, UNH
My peers and I created a virtual tour for the Maine MILL Museum located in Lewiston Maine. We created a virtual tour using Thing Link and iMovie to create an accessible tour for the museums homepage. By creating this project we have been able to reach a larger audience for the museum and allow the museums to come alive in a new digital age.
https://mainemill.org/collection-exhibits/virtual-exhibits/
Ava Garcia, UNH
My project is a documentation of my experience studying abroad this past summer through the UNH in Italy Program. Using Google Earth street view and pictures I personally took throughout my trip, I wanted to create a story that immersed the reader and makes it feel like they are experiencing this trip themselves.
https://earth.google.com/earth/d/1O1quga8fkoqzpo7_v9Ou591JWSC6LjEn?usp=sharing