September 5, 2024
- Introductions
- Program overview and logistics
- Overview of Github
- What is Digital Scholarship?
- Goals and learning plans
Note-taker: Jeff
- Name, specialization, what you want to learn more about, favorite piece of trivia
- Hilde: in the art histroy program, works on comtemporary media (e.g., video & film), all bananas are dervied from the Cavendish
- Lala: 3rd year in classical archaeology, interested in GIS, just found out most Carribean fruits actually orginated in the Philippines
- Illizt: 4th year in the classical archaeology program with a focus on metallurgy, is interested in 3D scans of ancient artifiacts, manga was invented by Katsushika Hokusai, the same artist who made The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
- Yuzhu: 3rd year in classical archaeology (focus on medieval Chinese art), is interested in digital reconstructions of ancient sites and artifacts, (trivia provided but missed by note-tacker, alas)
- Expectations
- Github
- A quick word on Markdown
- Syllabus
- Fellow interests
- Hilde Has an interested in creative coding (e.g., algorithmns used by artists) and digital exhibits (particularly IIIF standards)
- Lala: Seconds idea of having a supplemental workshop on creative coding and GIS
- Illizt: Has an interest in creative coding,especially on the topic of creating social media bots
- Yuzhu: Also in interested in creative coding as well as how to incorporate it into digital pedagogy
- Fellow interests
Digital Scholarship can take many forms. Here's a brief overview
- What do you want to know? What do you want to create or develop?
- SMART standards:
- Specific: how will you work towards that goal?
- Measurable: what can you do to measure your progress?
- Actionable: break it down into individual tasks and pieces that you are able to accomplish on your own
- Relevant: make sure it's important enough to motivate you
- Time-based: set reasonable deadlines
- Reminders
- Set up a meeting with Alice or Jeff via Zoom Scheduler if you want help with learning plans & goals.
- Alice will send Zoom invites for next meeting. Please check your mailbox for them.
- Action Items
- Brainstorm 3-4 goals and select the most relevant to draft a SMART goal
- Sign up for a GitHub account & share your username
- Prepare for next session
- Watch all 6 Code.org videos on computers
- Optional: read "Hello, World" by Meredith Broussard (from Artificial Unintelligence, MIT 2018). NB: if direct link doesn't work, use TriPod link
- Email us a bio and headshot for the DS website
- Join the slack channel for our group
- Install software
- Text editor: Visual Studio Code
- For a PC: install git bash using these instructions