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Hello, everybody, and welcome to History 3814, Digital Manities 3814, Crafting Digital History.
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My name is Scott Coleman. I'm the professor for the course, and welcome.
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So I just want to give you a brief introduction of who I am, what this course is about,
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and just kind of an overview of where everything is so you can understand what's happening here.
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So to start off, I am a PhD candidate here at Carleton University.
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I'm currently living in Nova Scotia, though, and this is the first time I've taught this course,
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and it's the first time I've taught asynchronistically.
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So this will be a new experience, not just for you, but for me as well.
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And I hope through this experience that we can actually, you know, develop skills together
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and come to a, come into new insights that we learn from each other.
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My background is in late Roman, medieval Roman archaeology, and specifically the East Roman Empire,
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where I focus on from the 10th through the 13th centuries.
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And I primarily work out of Athens, Greece, where I work at the Agora there.
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And I've also excavated in Turkey and central Anatolia.
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And yeah, so that's my background in terms of my academic research.
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I've come into the digital humanities through this PhD program that I'm in,
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where I've started playing around with 3D modeling, reflective transformation imaging,
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but more in particular, the development of knowledge and personal knowledge management
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through various digital platforms.
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And this is what we're going to explore in this course.
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In particular, I'm very interested in identifiers, how we use identifiers to label data
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and the implications of labels on our interpretations of the past.
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So with that being said, let's just move on and kind of let me talk to you about what my philosophy is for this course.
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Basically, my pedagogical approach focuses on processes and not end results.
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So I'm not looking for a clean final project in this course,
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as probably you experience in most courses when they want a final paper.
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Rather, we're going to focus on process.
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And the reason I do that is specifically in the digital.
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Everybody comes to the digital with various levels of expertise or non-expertise.
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And what I mean by that is that we can't know everything about the digital.
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And everybody has their own strengths and weaknesses.
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So in this course, I want us to communicate and collaborate together through the different weeks,
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through the Discord server, which will be sent to you via your Carleton email,
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along with some other information that you'll need to know for this course.
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The other component of this is that by focusing on process,
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everybody can tackle these assignments at their own pace,
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as well as their own comfort levels.
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So that means that if something does break,
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let's say you're trying to work on one of the assignments and you just cannot get it to work.
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And for some reason, you're just scratching your head.
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Don't worry about that.
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That's actually a good thing because you do learn from those kind of failures is what I would say.
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And these things are actually not a bad thing to happen.
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I break things on my computer all the time.
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Things never work out for me on the first attempt.
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And that's how you learn.
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And it's reflecting on these processes that allows you to gain insight,
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not just on the historical topic that you may be researching,
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but the digital tools and how these tools influence the way we create history as well.
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Some of you may find some parallels between the approach that I'm taking in this course
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and maybe with approaches with Dr. Sean Graham, who is actually my supervisor.
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You might have taken courses with him as well.
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He does a lot of these online courses and he's doing a digital archaeology course right now.
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And I parallel my teaching approaches to his because I find them very effective.
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And I think they are, in a sense, very generous in terms of allowing students to focus on what they need to focus
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without penalizing you if something just does not work out that might be out of your control.
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So that being said, let's take a quick look at the website and we'll go from there.
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Now, this is the main landing page.
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There will be a welcome video down here.
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So please, that's the welcome video for the course.
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Watch that, obviously, which is what you're doing now.
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So I don't know why I would say that.
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As you can tell, my first time doing this.
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So this is all new.
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So over here on the right and left side, you will have your course syllabus layout,
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the overviews, the schedules, tutorials, how I assess the work and transcripts of the videos as well.
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So when you click on here, please, please, please, I implore you to read through these carefully.
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Make sure that this is the course for you and that this is what you want to do.
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Because this course is intensive.
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It is a third year course and it's designed to be intensive, but also designed to allow great flexibility in how you approach the material.
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But I want you to be sure that this is the course for you.
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So read through everything.
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The learning outcomes, read through your course schedule and the evaluations.
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Now, the course schedule, the course is broken down into three modules, weeks one to five, six to 10, and then 11 to 14.
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Each module has a purpose, a theme, and different approaches.
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And then these modules, you can actually see more detail down here under the schedules section,
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where if you click on module one, you'll see that it breaks it down to week one, week two, week three, week four.
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If you scroll down, you can go to the bottom and click through.
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Okay.
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Each week is laid out in detail on what my expectations are, the activities of the week, the readings right here, your workflow,
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and a weekly reflection, which is ungraded.
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But these weekly reflections help inform the graded work that I will be evaluating.
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So you must do these reflections.
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They are mandatory despite the fact that they are ungraded because they do inform your graded work.
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In the tutorials, there's a lot of help here on how to set up your Obsidian Vault, how to create notes, the plugins that we'll be using,
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the hypothesis application that we'll be using for web annotations.
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There is a lot happening.
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Again, these will be all laid out in detail.
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Some of these, I will provide videos to help ease you into installing them and using these.
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assessments.
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Assessments.
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Please read through each assessment carefully so you understand the core principles, my expectations, the due dates.
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And if you have any questions about any of these, please contact me through Discord or email me or attend my office hours.
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Now, my office hours will be held from approximately 12 o'clock Eastern time on Mondays and Wednesdays to 1 p.m. Eastern time.
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Now, 12 to 1 Eastern time.
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I'm in Nova Scotia, so sometimes I'm going to get a little confused.
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We're about an hour ahead.
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That being said, my office hours will be held on the Discord, and we can either do it just through regular chat or through video.
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During the consolidation weeks, where no new material is introduced, but rather that you are...
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Let me bring it up here.
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You're actually meant to reflect on the module itself, prepare your consolidation reflection, and review and play around with the tools that you might have not had time to play around with or didn't quite get working.
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But during these consolidation weeks, I will also have check-in times, which can be about 10, 15 minutes.
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You just send me a message.
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Go, hey, I would love to check in.
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They're not mandatory, but they're meant to help you and make me available to help you through certain problems that you may be having with some of the digital tools that we're using,
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or just for chatting about your project or questions, whatever you like.
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So I'm going to make myself available.
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I will set up a timesheet for you to sign up for these times if you want to attend them.
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And one other caveat, these times will be limited, and to a certain extent, I do teach three courses this semester,
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so I have a very full schedule, let alone writing my own and my own research projects I have to work on, but I will be available.
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Also, I will make sure I'm available as much as possible on the Discord server between the times of 10 and 3 o'clock Eastern.
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Sometimes I will not be on there because I'm teaching other classes, but I will be on Discord whenever I am free,
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and that way you can send messages.
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So if I do not respond right away, do not panic.
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I will respond back to you.
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So there is also a news section on the page up here.
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This will be where I'll be posting news about the course, any updates, any changes in the schedule that we may need to do,
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or just general thoughts and queries that I might have come up with throughout the course I'll post here,
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and I'll also send a link in the Discord server.
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In the Discord server, there will be a tech help section, so if you do have questions, please ask them in there.
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Now, for your classmates, for everybody, please collaborate together.
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Help each other out.
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Some of you may be more experienced in the digital.
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Some of you may not be.
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Some might have strengths in just writing history.
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Some of you may not.
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So this is meant for us to be a collaborative effort.
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History is not produced in a vacuum.
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Archaeology is not done in a vacuum.
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We all work and build off each other, despite maybe some of the traditional notions of a guy like myself working away in the office
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and writing a history by myself, reading books and writing things.
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That doesn't work.
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That's not how it is done.
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I ask for help all the time from other colleagues and peers, especially my supervisor.
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I'm bugging him all the time, as much as he sends me things as well.
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So I expect you to do the same.
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Be engaged.
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Help each other out.
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Talk through some of these articles that we're going to be reading, some of the problems that we'll encounter.
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Collaborate and perform generous thinking.
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It's a core philosophy that I outline in this course.
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The idea of slowing things down, thinking through some of these processes and sharing these processes with your peers and colleagues,
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helping each other out and when we're stuck.
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So with that being said, I think I will end this video here.
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Thank you very much for listening to me and my first introduction video and my first asynchronous course.
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I look forward to meeting you all on the Discord.
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I'm a very open person, so I really have an open door policy.
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So please ask me anything, even if it's not related to this course or if you need help with other items,
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other university issues or just need to chat.
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I'm here.
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I take mental health very seriously.
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If you have any concerns, please reach out to me.
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I'm an advocate for an open door policy to make sure that you feel comfortable doing this course
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and having a pleasant experience here at university.
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So thank you very much and we'll expect an email from me with all the other details about Discord,
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zip files that I need you to install and all the other jazz.
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Great.
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Thank you.

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

14 Consolidation Week Number 2

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

News