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It has a stone work set of arches with vines and plants growing all over it. There are palm trees in the background and other foliage around the area. It is a cropped and blue tinted version of a public domain image to help decorate the Digital Data Story "A Glorious Mystery: Rosaries and Robbery".

A Glorious Mystery: Rosaries and Robbery

August 8, 2025 by Paulina Przystupa

This exercise is best suited to those with an interest in the archaeology of Spanish Florida, stakeholders at archaeological sites, or using role-playing games for archaeological education. Users should know how to use the internet for research and interacting with digital documents like PDFs and be prepared to respectively represent the perspectives of others but […]

This header illustrates the Data Story "TO DISRUPT AND DELIGHT: TEACHING ARCHAEOLOGY THROUGH NARRATIVE". The image consists of "A Digital Data Story" on the side of the image in white on a blue background. There is a set of adobe or stone walls that are tinged blue that look like the should come together but htere's a larger cut taken out of them. In that empty space sits the title of the Data Story and the logo for Open Context/the Alexandria Archive institute. The missing section of the image was cut out representing a "disruption" to the site caused by a cut through the wall caused looting that then filled with sand.

To Disrupt and Delight: Teaching Archaeology Through Narrative

March 19, 2025 by Paulina Przystupa

This exercise is best suited to those with an interest in teaching with narrative, archaeological data literacy, and critically engaging with published articles. Users should have some familiarity with academic language and an interest in teaching and learning, but previous experience with data literacy and archaeology is not required.

This header illustrates the Digital Data Story "FAIR Finds: Using Twine in Archaeological Education". The image consists of the words "A Digital Data Story" on the side of the image in white on a blue background. There is a pink sticky note with the title on it. Surrounding the stickynote are the image of a computer screen or monitor, a floppy disk, and an open folder with an arrow pointing down. With the exception of the Sticky note, which has credit information forthcoming, the other icosn are all from the Noun Project under a royalty free license.

FAIR Finds: Using Twine in Archaeological Education

April 25, 2024 by Paulina Przystupa

This exercise is best suited to those with an interest in the archaeology of Spanish Florida; Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) data; or using interactive fiction for data-driven education. Users should know how to use the internet, navigate a website, and interact with a PDF or online dynamic digital document but previous experience with […]

On the right is blue text on a white background listing: The Tutorial Series; The Creative Series; The Dialogues Series; The Aggregative Series; The Solo Series; The Interactive Series(which is in a light blue rounded box); The Publication Series with each series on its own row; to the left is a grey box with text primarily in black. The text reads “Reading data involves understanding what data is, and what aspects of the world it represents. Working with data involves acquiring, cleaning, and managing it. Analyzing data involves filtering, sorting, aggregating, comparing, and performing other such analytic operations on it. Arguing with data involves using data to support a larger narrative intended to communicate a message to a particular audience. Bhargava, Rahul, et al. “Data murals: Using the arts to build data literacy.” The Journal of Community Informatics 12.3 (2016). Throughout this document, data stories are aligned to show how they can be used to reinforce Reading, Working, Analyzing, Arguing, and communciating with data. These make up the key components of archaeological data literacy for the program and these resource aim to reinforce” Reading is in dark blue matching a circular book spine icon to the left of the text that is in white lines on the blue background; Working is in light blue matching a tabbed planner-style circular icon in white lines on the same light blue; Analyzing is in lavender corresponding to a circular computer icon in white lines on the same lavender; Arguing is in pink corresponding to a circular text books icon in white lines; and Commucicating is in black corressponding to a circular laptop icon with waves going out in white lines

Intersecting Interactive Ideas for Data Literacy

February 15, 2024 by Paulina Przystupa

For this Digital Data Stories (DDS) Series on Series entry, we’re exploring our Interactive Series. Play is an integral part of human creativity, and interacting with others during play is an important way that we learn. Beyond that, places, materials, buildings, people, and belongings start to have meaning to us through interaction. With that in […]

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Act 12: A Transition Story

February 1, 2024 by Paulina Przystupa

As 2023 drew to a close, the Data Literacy Program (DLP) completed a number of tasks and said goodbye to an era. At the end of December, L. Meghan Dennis wrapped up her work with the program at the conclusion of her 3-year postdoc. We’re sad to see her go but looking forward to new […]

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