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# prototype-Shorthand

## PROJECT BASICS

### SUMMARY
One of our LL MDFs, Juhee, is TF'ing for [EASTD 170: Medicine and the Self in China and in the West](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/100379) during the spring term. The course will incorporate visual images of anatomy and ask students to analyze them. Juhee expressed interest in developing an exercise that encourages students to use the features available through a tool called Shorthand, a scrolling storytelling tool.

Using Shorthand, students will use cropping, highlighting, and other visual techniques to analyze salient details from illustrations. To structure their analysis of these details and illustrations, students will choose from either a "disappearing story arc," which asks why something disappeared over the course of time, or an "emergence story arc," which asks why something that exists today did *not* exist in the past. Their Shorthand stories will move through an analysis that answers these types of questions, using the modes of both image and text.


### GOALS

* To develop a prototype in Shorthand that uses both image and text to support a claim
* To produce a "how to" doc in Markdown that a student in a course could use to complete this assignment 
* To give each other feedback about our prototypes and "how to" docs


### TIMELINE
Make sure to **maintain a process doc** in HackMD as you work!

Please share your work with the **show-your-work and show-and-tell Slack channels** throughout your making process. **Why** did you make your Shorthand story the way that you did? And **how** did you make it?

### MILESTONES
* Choose an image and reflect on it. What features of the image are you most likely to analyze and why? What views of particular details of the image can you use as evidence (to support a claim)? How would you show a viewer these details? 

* Develop and document your workflow as you produce three views of your image (e.g., full image, details) and write notes about it.

* Share your image(s) and a couple of sentences about them!


### MVP

At least one example with a tutorial on the process used to achieve it. 

### EXTRA FEATURE REQUESTS

* examples from a wide array of domains
    * history of art & architecture
    * literature
    * media studies/film studies
    * history/any field using archival materials that are visually interesting/notable
* new workflows and tooling that augment the LL
* sample prompts and other materials
    * student-facing tutorials
    * sample assignment prompts
    * collection of possible images for activities (ideally from course materials or somehow linked to them)
* connections to related projects
   
   

## TOOLS, TECHNIQUES AND MODELS

### Tools
* Shorthand
* Ps
* Adobe Spark
* Cards, markers, other arts supplies and props in LL?


## WORKING DOCS
Link to your HackMD process docs and/or "how to" tutorials here!
