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<h3 id="week-five"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#week-five"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Week Five.</h3>
<p>Hello, Students.<br>
Welcome to week five. This is your first consolidation week, where you can reflect and experiment with what you have covered so far in the course. There is no new content. It is a good time to become more familiar with Obsidian and develop a more personalized approach to note-making. Consider how you may want to develop your vault to process data for your research topic. See <a href="/Crafting%20Digital%20History/2.%20Schedule/Module%201%20Contextualizing/Week%205" title="Week 5">Week 5</a> for further details.</p>
<p><strong>Regarding time slots for one-on-one discussions, I will be available during my regular office hours. I will also be available on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. If you wish to speak to me in one of these time slots, please email me at <a href="/mailto:scottcoleman@cmail.carleton">scottcoleman@cmail.carleton.ca</a></strong></p>
<h3 id="update-on-proposal"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#update-on-proposal"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Update on Proposal</h3>
<p>I am about 2/3rds the way through your proposals and I am enjoying the content and your topics. I do want to reiterate a few points for future reference. Please ensure you cite your sources in the text with any style of your choosing. This can be in APA, Chicago, or MLA style. No matter your choice, keep it consistent.</p>
<p>Next, I have noticed some patterns that suggest the potential use of AI in writing proposals. <strong>THIS IS FORBIDDEN</strong>. If you want to use LLMs/AI as part of your research, this is not a problem as long as it is adequately explained and rationalized in your proposal. The use of chatbots and other AI to aid your writing is forbidden and considered plagiarism, which will result in a zero and possible further disciplinary action.</p>
<h3 id="weekly--consolidation-reflection"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#weekly--consolidation-reflection"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Weekly &#x26; Consolidation Reflection.</h3>
<p>This week, your first graded reflection is due. Please review the <a href="/Crafting%20Digital%20History/4.%20Assessment/3%20Consolidation%20Reflection" title="3 Consolidation Reflection">3 Consolidation Reflection</a> and <a href="/Crafting%20Digital%20History/4.%20Assessment/4%20Personal%20Open%20Access%20Notebook%20or%20Memex" title="4 Personal Open Access Notebook or Memex">4 Personal Open Access Notebook or Memex</a>, and ensure you understand my expectations. For those who have not submitted weekly reflections, I strongly recommend doing so, as this is your evidence to support your consolidation reflection, along with your online memex. Weekly reflections submitted late will receive lower priority for feedback compared to those submitted on time. If you need help or have any questions, please reach out to me or come to office hours. I want you to succeed, but I can not help unless you ask for it.</p>
<h3 id="discord"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#discord"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Discord</h3>
<p>There is very minimal discussion on Discord. Why? Please use this platform. I have prompts to facilitate discussions. To get the most out of this course, please participate in the Discord.</p>
<h3 id="memexmixa-site"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#memexmixa-site"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Memex/Mixa Site</h3>
<p>If you have not submitted your Mixa site domain via the Google form,  please do so immediately. See <a href="/3%20Welcome%20to%20Week%20Two#A%20few%20Notes%20-%20Updates" title="3 Welcome to Week Two#A few Notes - Updates.">3 Welcome to Week Two#A few Notes - Updates.</a>. This is mandatory. I have over forty proposals submitted, yet I only have 24 Mixa site domains. This is a significant discrepancy. If I do not have your Mixa site domain, I will not be able to grade your consolidation reflections adequately. More importantly, this is a mandatory course deliverable. If I do not have access to your site, then you will unfortunately fail the course.  If you are having difficulties submitting a domain address, please contact me.</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

News