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<div class="callout-content" style=""><p><strong>NB</strong> This is my first time teaching an asynchronous course. I wanted this course to be about the exploration and understanding of what the field of Digital History meant for Byzantine Studies. As I began building this course, I realized I wanted to emulate my supervisor's pedagogical approach. He is a brilliant scholar with a unique pedagogical approach (No, I am not trying to curry favour with him...maybe.). Some of you may have taken a course with Dr. Shawn Graham and may feel some of the lessons in this course overlap with his. That's okay, just push yourself harder and further. I want the course to be all about you and <em>your</em> exploration. Everyone's journey in the Digital is different. That’s how meaning emerges, right? I hope I succeed and meet your expectations. Remember, sometimes things won't work as we expect; technology might break; the world might intrude too much. We will adapt accordingly. Remember: the grade in this course is a function of your <strong><em>process</em></strong> and your <strong><em>evolution</em></strong>, so adapting and thinking through the implications of when things don't go according to plan is, in fact, <strong><em>according to plan</em></strong>.</p></div>
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<h2 id="a-note-on-ai-generated-assignments"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#a-note-on-ai-generated-assignments"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a><strong>A Note on AI-Generated Assignments</strong></h2>
<p>With the release of ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and now GROK, students' use of AI software to generate university assignments is on the rise. <strong>I do not permit the use of AI software (including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and other AI writing assistants) in this course UNLESS SPECIFIED BY YOUR PROFESSOR.</strong> Students are expected to submit work that reflects their own ideas and original engagement with readings and research. This course policy is designed to promote your learning and intellectual development and to help you reach course learning outcomes. Therefore, the use of generative AI tools in these circumstances is a violation of  Carleton University's Academic Integrity policy. <a href="https://carleton.ca/secretariat/wp-content/uploads/Academic-Integrity-Policy-2021.pdf">Academic-Integrity-Policy-2021.pdf</a> <a href="/Crafting%20Digital%20History/1.%20Course%20Overview/6_Common%20Regulations" title="6_Common Regulations">6_Common Regulations</a></p>
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<p>By the end of this course:</p>
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<li>You will have established an online presence for your scholarly identity that is under your own control</li>
<li>You will have gained experience making a wide variety of digital things that are (can be) public-facing</li>
<li>You will have begun to learn the habits of thought that will enable you to teach yourself how-to-do the digital things that will move your research forward</li>
<li>You will understand some of the ramifications for digital public history based on your behind-the-scenes choices.</li>
<li>You will have a sense of where digital history fits into the broader scheme of things.</li>
<li>You will be excited, energized, and motivated (or quite possibly exhausted. But, if I haven't made a complete dog's breakfast of it, still excited and motivated.)</li>
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<h2 id="learning-goals"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#learning-goals"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Learning Goals</h2>
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<li>This course will enable you to analyze and assess historical documents, artifacts, and other primary sources through the lens of digital history methods, critically applied, and you will develop awareness of the ways digital tools change what is possible to know about the past.</li>
<li>At the same time, this ability will enable you to analyze and assess critically digital tools and methods from a historical perspective.</li>
<li>Given that this is an online course, another outcome will be your ability to conduct such research independently. However, no one operates in a vacuum; digital historians collaborate to troubleshoot or develop technologies, and through open practices of data sharing and reuse, learn to build upon each other’s work collaboratively.</li>
<li>Another outcome will be the ability to translate the results of digital methods into historical arguments.</li>
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<p>Thus, we can think of these as fostering your analytical ability, methodological awareness, collaborative thinking, and ability to tell compelling stories.</p>

Welcome

1. Course Description

2. Learning Outcomes

3. Course Schedule

4. Evaluation

5. Course Communications

6. Common Regulations

6. Contact the Professor

how the course tech is built; how the course came to be

7. Colophon

8. Reuse

Orientation and Digital Setup

Week 1

Personal Knowledge Management and Linked Thinking

Week 2

Thinking about the “Craft” of Digital History

Week 3

Crusading into the Digital Age of LLMs

Week 4

Consolidation & Check-In Week

Week 5

Digital Excavation

Week 6

Defining Data, 'Dark' Data, & Identifiers

Week 7

Fall Break

Week 8

Seeing the Past?

Week 9

Week 10

Authority and Positionality in Your Digital Research

Week 11

Publicly Crafting a Historical Argument

Week 12

Open-Access Notebook Workshop

Week 13

Exit Ticket

Week 14

1 Setting up your vault

2 Create your first note

3 Templater Plugiin

4 What Goes into a Note?

5 Properties

Hypothesis

The Simplest Online Memex Worfklow

How To Read An Academic Article

FAQ for Common Tech Issues

Where to Find help

Text Formatting

Introduction to your vault

index note

Atomic Note

Literature Note

Process Note

Weekly Journal

Topic Proposal

Weekly Work & Tasks

Consolidation Reflection

Open Access Notebook/Memex

Benchmarking Your Memex

Exit Ticket/Final Project

1 Welcome to Crafting Digital History Transcript

2 Obsidian User Interface (UI) Guide

3 Templater and Hotkeys Setup

4 How to use PDF++

5 Canvas Core Plugin Introductory Tutorial

6 Hypothes.is and Annotating the Web

7 Omnisearch Plugin for Obsidian

8 How to Use Process Notes for Digital Research Projects in Obsidian

9 Properties, Identifiers and Data Management with Obsidian Core Plugin Bases

1 Welcome to Crafting Digital History

2 Some Logistical Updates

3 Welcome to Week Two

4 What is Digital History?

5 Crusading into the Digital Age of LLMs

6 Week Four Exercise Example

7 Using Obsidian for Digital History Research and Note-Making

8 Reflection Feedback Update and Hypothes.is

9 Week Five Update

10 Consolidation Reflection Submission

11 Module Two Wrangling and Critiquing

12 Week 7 Update

13 Week 9 Welcome Back

1. Course Overview

Module 1 Contextualizing

Module 2 Wrangling & Critiquing

Module 3 Arguing & Communicating

2. Schedule

01  memex help

8. Course Files

3. Tutorials

4. Assessment

5. VideoTutorials

Crafting Digital History

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