Microtalk Information
| Title | Tower of Babel |
| Presenter(s) | Ali Bolcakan and Christi Merrill |
| Session | Language Games |
| Time | Friday, October 14, 11:30a-12:30p |
| Location | Lake Michigan |
| Format | Microtalk |
| Description | Tower of Babel is an upcoming educational digital card game designed and developed by a team of four senior undergraduate students at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, and a professor and a researcher from the humanities at the U-M, Ann Arbor.
In the game, the cards are created by finding relevant records in HathiTrust, a digital archive of scanned material from the collections of higher education institutions around the globe; it is primarily a repository of material scanned by Google Books. The game board, "brick," consists of twelve tiles and the players, "builders," are tasked with filling the empty tiles by first turning HathiTrust records into a card, verifying and editing the HathiTrust metadata, and then placing them on the board. The main project goals are about familiarizing undergraduate students with primary archival sources and creating new pedagogical pathways to address evolving student needs. |