RAPT Lab: Representations, Activity, Play, and Technology Lab
Projects: Net.Create
Net.Create is a collaborative network visualization tool developed to help users explore a large corpus of data together, concurrently. This was originally implemented in undergraduate history classrooms.
While the original Net.Create tool was developed to support undergraduate history classrooms, this kind of collaborative network visualiation is proving well-suited to helping students explore data in a wide range of contexts. Recently, we have used this network visualization in graduate level theory courses, and in helping middle school students explore their interests and identities.
You can see a sample network depicting the readings in our graduate level Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) course here. To see the kind of network we envision sharing with youth to explore their interests, see a simple network we developed based on some of our own interests here. If you’d like to learn more about either of these efforts, please email jdanish [a] indiana.edu.
Funding for the the iterations of the Net.Create Project
| Grant Name | Funding Agency | Grant Number | Co-PIs |
|---|---|---|---|
| EAGER: Net.Create: Using Network Analysis to Support Digital Humanities in Large History Classrooms | NSF | 1848655 | Joshua Danish, Kalani Craig |
Publications on the Net.Create Project
2021
- Craig, K., Danish, J., Humburg, M., Hmelo-Silver, C., Szostalo, M., & McCranie, A. (2021). Net.Create: Network Visualization to Support Collaborative Historical Knowledge Building. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. paper
- Humburg, M. A., Craig, K., Danish, J., & Szostalo, M. (2021). Fostering Historical Empathy Through Network Analysis: Personal Experiences as a Lens for Understanding the Past. Paper presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), held virtually (due to COVID-19).
- Humburg, M., Craig, K., Szostalo, M., Danish, J., Hmelo-Silver, C., & McCranie, A. (2021). Noticing, Understanding, and Encouraging Positive Engagement with Collaborative History Learning. Paper presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS), Bochum, Germany (held virtually due to COVID-19). paper
2020
- Craig, K., Danish, J., Bae, H., Szostalo, M., Humburg, M. A., Hmelo-Silver, C. E., & McCranie, A. (2020). Net.Create: Network Analysis in Collaborative Co-Construction of Historical Context in a Large Undergraduate Classroom. Paper presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, CA (Conference cancelled due to COVID-19).
- Craig, K., Danish, J., Humburg, M., Szostalo, M., McCranie, A., & Hmelo-Silver, C. E. (2020). Net. Create: network analysis in collaborative co-construction of historical context in a large undergraduate classroom. Paper presented at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS), Nashville, TN. paper
- Craig, Kalani, Humburg, Megan, Danish, Joshua, Szostalo, Maksymilian, Hmelo-Silver, Cindy E. , McCranie, Ann (2020) Increasing students’ social engagement during COVID-19 with Net.Create: collaborative social network analysis to map historical pandemics during a pandemic, Information and Learning Sciences, Vol. 121 No. 7/8 (July 2020), pp. 533-547. paper
2019
- Bae, H., Craig, K., Danish, J., Hmelo-Silver, C. E., Uttamchandani, S., Szostalo, M., & McCranie, A. (2019). The Power of Network Analysis Tool for Collaborative Learning. In Lund, K., Niccolai, G. P., Lavoué, E., Hmelo-Silver, C., Gweon, G., & Baker, M. (Eds.), A Wide Lens: Combining Embodied, Enactive, Extended, and Embedded Learning in Collaborative Settings, 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) 2019, Volume 2 (pp. 1025-1028). Lyon, France: International Society of the Learning Sciences. paper
- Bae, H., Craig, K., Danish, J., Hmelo-Silver, C., Uttamchandani, S., & Szostalo, M. (2019). Mediating Collaboration in History with Network Analysis. In Lund, K., Niccolai, G. P., Lavoué, E., Hmelo-Silver, C., Gweon, G., & Baker, M. (Eds.), A Wide Lens: Combining Embodied, Enactive, Extended, and Embedded Learning in Collaborative Settings, 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) 2019, Volume 2 (pp. 949-950). Lyon, France: International Society of the Learning Sciences. poster abstract
- Mccranie, A., Bae, H., Craig, K., Danish, J., Uttamchandani, S., Szostalo, M., & Hmelo-Silver, C. E. (2019). How to Support Network Capta and Collaborative Data Entry through Net.Create, Open Source Software. Paper presented at the NetSci, Burlington, VT.
2017
- Craig, K. (2017). Analog tools in digital history classrooms: An activity-theory case study of learning opportunities in digital humanities. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 11(1), n1.