https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/author/smattern/Recent content in Smattern on Journal of Digital HumanitiesHugoen-USSat, 01 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-4/evaluating-multimodal-work-revisited-by-shannon-mattern/Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-4/evaluating-multimodal-work-revisited-by-shannon-mattern/<p>Two years ago I was preparing for a semester in which all of my classes involved “multimodal” student work — that is, theoretically-informed, research-based work that resulted in something _other_than a traditional paper. For years I’d been giving students in my classes the option of submitting, for at least one of their semester assignments, a media production or creative project (accompanied by a support paper in which they addressed how their work functioned as “scholarship”) — but given that this cross-platform work would now become the <em>norm</em>, I thought I should take some time to think about how to fairly and helpfully evaluate these projects. How do we know what’s <em>good</em>?</p>