Hello everyone and welcome back. This is the third part of our asynchronous pedagogy workshop. For this section of the workshop, we'll be focusing on network analysis. And within this area of digital humanities, we focus on the visualization of relationships within our data. A lot of times this will focus on the relationships that individuals or organizations have within each other. Oftentimes, digital humanists in this area are interested in exploring the connections between people and/or organizations, oftentimes referred to as social networks. OK? So the types of questions that we can answer within this area are those such as what and how are the characters of this novel or corpus related? What role does this organization play within a community? What is the organizational structure of this entity? Or how are people and places connected? Or lastly, who are the key players of a particular social movement or organization? So seeing these connections through network analysis and its visualizations allow us to be able to do all of this. So one example that we have is from a class that we helped support in spring of 2019. This was a course on the Roman Empire. And so students used the program Net.Create, which is an in-house software that one of our co-directors has helped develop. And so in this class, students built networks using a textbook that talks about the Roman Empire's Claudius and Nero. And we can sort of see here in the image that we see Claudius has a big circle or entity within the network. We have Agrippina and then we have Nero right at the bottom. And you can sort of start to see how these lines connect the different characters or different individuals within this era. And so in this one here, the instructor and students were interested in seeing who are sort of the center individuals within this time period. And we can sort of see some of the bigger nodes within the network. After students added some more information within the network, this time they started to add the different factions within the system. So there's up to 20 factions and we can sort of see how the nodes started to change colors and such. So we can sort of start to see visually how the factions in which these individuals belong to and then also just how they're sort of all interconnected. And students were able to build these two networks and a couple others in a short period of time. They actually did over two class sessions of about 35 minutes, just using the information that they found in the book. And so it was a pretty quick and easy network that they were able to get up and running. So once we have the information or the data that we're going to input into a program such as Net.Create, the generation of these visualizations actually comes out pretty quickly. I mean, students could sit down and do this in a 75 minute class. And we've actually been able to do that. So I know that in the past, you know, the other sections that we've been talking about our teaching templates. And we also have a teaching template to help instructors incorporate Net.Create into the class. It's a great activity that you could do in a matter of one class period, you know, about 40 minutes. Or if you want to sort of extend it out longer, you can also have it sort of drawn out and do different sections throughout a semester. And then it can lead up to maybe students final projects and stuff, and they may focus on different relationships that exist within the network. So depending upon the topic of your class and such, you'll be able to sort of modify this type of activity into a one-time activity, or maybe multiple activities. throughout the semester. So you can find the link to that template below. And again, if you still have questions about how to incorporate Net.Create or need more support, please do not hesitate to contact us. So now for the interactive activity. We'll have a different video sort of showing you what to do. But what we're gonna do is we're going to use Google Jamboards, and we're going to start to figure out how we all are interconnected. So we're going to create manually our own social network of all the individuals and organizations that are connected to IDAH. So now because you have watched this workshop series, you can now are sort of be one of our affiliates on the outer banks of individuals that we interact with on campus. So I'll create another video sort of showing you how to do it. It's going to be more of an analog digital network. It won't be using the actual software Net.Create just yet. So we're just gonna sort of start to see how we can start to build networks, just in an analog mode online. So stay tuned for that video and please add yourself to our network. Thank you!