For this Digital Data Stories (DDS) Series on Series entry, we’re exploring our Publication Series where we use the format of the publication to highlight important aspects of data literacy. We do this because reading and writing language are foundational to data literacy. That’s because they help us understand “what aspects of the world” (Bhargava […]
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How to Make Your Own (Archaeological) Book Club
Welcome to the Alexandria Archive Institute and Open Context‘s Data Story Shorts! Here in How to Make Your Own (Archaeological) Book Club we explain how we selected and created our Aggregative Series book club Data Stories. Reading and discussion—which we consider ways to read, work with, and communicate data—are essential for all archaeology learners.
Introducing Data Story Shorts
We’re proud to introduce a new series of open educational resources (OERs) from the Data Literacy Program (DLP) of the Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI). These are our Data Story Shorts. The Shorts are smaller, bite-sized Data Stories about specific topics, skills, or data. In this article, we’ll explain some of the differences between our Shorts […]
Act 16: The story of data stories
The Data Literacy Program (DLP) section of the Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI) had a smooth, though very busy, end to 2024. We reused and reposted existing materials to coincide with our annual inspiration month prompts, published another Data Story, and wrote the story of our Data Stories.
Finding fun archaeology-related fiction
A Pun Goes Here: The AAI Reads Fiction Book Club is a great guide for running your own archaeology-fiction related book club. However, you might want to know how we found the books for that Data Story. Or, you might want help finding new reads yourself. In this article, we’ll tell you how we got […]
A Pun Goes Here: The AAI Reads Fiction Book Club
This exercise is best suited to those with an interest in reading fiction, understanding fictional uses of archaeological data, or discussing the impacts of archaeological data on fiction novels. Users should have some familiarity with group discussion or book clubs, but previous experience with data or archaeology is not required.
