A few weeks ago, Meghan, our Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Interpretation and Public Engagement, (who’s a bit of an #ethics nerd) attended a training session organized by the Data Hazards project. This facilitator training taught how to run sessions with the project’s Data Hazards labels — think of them as like warning labels on household […]
Open Educational Resources
Demographics and data stories
While we’ve mentioned our non-fiction book club, Of Mycenaean Men, we’re also preparing A Pun Goes Here: A Fiction Book Club. A Pun Goes Here will have a similar structure as Of Mycenaean Men, but will bring together a collection of 12 works of fiction to cultivate data literacy in archaeology.
Cow-culating your data with spreadsheets and R
This exercise is best suited to those with an interest in zooarchaeology, the Neolithic, or Central European archaeology. Users should have a basic understanding of what a spreadsheet is, but little previous experience is required.
Whose Heritage? Using material culture to celebrate AANHPI heritage month
Welcome to the Alexandria Archive Institute and Open Context‘s Data Story Shorts! In celebration of Asian and Pacific American (AAPI) Heritage Month (AAPIHM) or Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month (AANHPIHM), in this short I’ll use one of Open Context’s projects to consider the complexity of celebrating this heritage month. Specifically, […]
A week full of workshops
The week of 13 September 2021 was a busy one for the folks of The Alexandria Archive Institute. Between leading the first pilot seminar in our professional development services curriculum and our Data Literacy Program researchers presenting in the First Teaching and Learning in Archaeology and Heritage Conference (TLAHC), we did a lot of great […]
Archaeological Data Literacy @ the Teaching and Learning in Archaeology and Heritage Conference
The Data Literacy Program (DLP) of the Alexandria Archive Institute is excited to participate in the first Teaching and Learning in Archaeology and Heritage: Past, Present and Future Conference!
