Note: As of summer 2020, Prism is no longer active as a usable tool. We apologize for any inconvenience. A static site meant to convey the use, intervention of Prism, and some ideas for pedagogical alternatives can be found here.

Prism was a tool for collaborative interpretation of texts. Imagined as the digital instantiation of a vaporware game that was played in the Scholars’ Lab and SpecLab, the site allows users to upload documents for a group to interpret along various interpretive axes. The tool has seen significant use in K-12 classrooms.

Publications

• “Crowdsourcing Individual Interpretations: Between Microtasking and Macrotasking,” Brandon Walsh; Claire Maiers; Gwen Nally; Jeremy Boggs; Literary and Linguistic Computing 2014; https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqu030.

• Praxis Program Panel: "Reading Digitally with Prism and Ivanhoe" by Stephanie Kingsley
• Reflections on Project Management III: It Is All About Communication by Claire Maiers
• Prism, for Play by Bethany Nowviskie
• Drum Roll Please..... by Claire Maiers
• Out on a (Small) Limb by Brandon Walsh
• Prism on Spring Break by Chris Peck
• Images in Prism by Cecilia Márquez
• Praxis: Doing is Thinking? by Lindsay O’Connor
• On Complexity by Wayne Graham
• Future possibilities for Prism by David McClure
• Prism and Praxis Reflections by Annie Swafford
• Announcing Prism! by Brooke Lestock
• Praxis, Through Prisms by Bethany Nowviskie
• Spreading the Light: Prism Development is Almost DONE! by Annie Swafford
• Day of DH by Brooke Lestock
• Seeing the Prism: We Have Visualizations!! by Annie Swafford
• We Have Highlighting! by Annie Swafford
• Let's get visual. by Brooke Lestock
• through another prism by Alex Gil
• The Models are Done! by Annie Swafford
• All Hail the Workplan!: Accountability and Collaborative Research by Brooke Lestock
• Done is the engine of more. by Sarah Storti
• Building and Texts by Annie Swafford
• Why I love project management by Sarah Storti
• Project Management and Graduate Training by Brooke Lestock
• Looking forward to Prism by Brooke Lestock
• To Scaffold, or Not To Scaffold? by Annie Swafford
• Wireframing and Foundations by Lindsay O’Connor
• Design Q&A by Brooke Lestock
• The Force of UX Design by Brooke Lestock
• Building Prism: The Darker Side of the Enlightenment Spectrum by Annie Swafford
• The Dirt on "Clean" by Lindsay O’Connor
• Designed to touch by Brooke Lestock
• the Transparent Crowd by Lindsay O’Connor
• Highlighting limitations by Brooke Lestock
• Charter and Design by Annie Swafford
• The Joys of Ruby by Annie Swafford
• Programming for Prism by Annie Swafford