Teaching blog – Page 2 – Dr. Shrout’s courses

Posting to Known

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Known is an aggregator, that lets you post comments, status updates, images, comics and more! To post for your classes, you will usually need to: Step 1: Log into your Known page Step 2: Select the “post” icon Step 3:

Posting with Hypothes.is

Hypothes.is is a tool that allows you to collaboratively annotate the web (it is very cool!). For most of your classes with me, you’ll be working with annotation groups. Step 1: First, sign up for an account with Hypothes.is at

Open(ish) letter to the University of Chicago

This morning, I received an alumni survey from my alma mater, the University of Chicago. At the end, there was a section for extended comment. Since I indicated in the survey that I highly valued my education, the connections I

Creating a subdomain and installing WordPress with Reclaim

First, login to Reclaim Hosting. If you do not have an account through your school, go to: https://portal.reclaimhosting.com/clientarea.php and login. Then, click on Cpanel and select your domain. If you do have an account through your school, go to your

Topic Modeling GUI

First, download the tool. Navigate to https://github.com/arunbg/Topic-Modeling-Tool and click the “clone or download” button. Select “download zip” and save the zipped file to your desktop. Unzip the file (in most operating systems, double clicking will do this) and click on

Cleaning Data with Open Refine

This exercise riffs on one prepared by the folks at The Programming Historian. For a deep read, work through their complete exercise. OpenRefine is a tool that is used to make data systematic, to rid a dataset of duplicates,

Footnotes

Footnotes can often feel arcane and tricky. Here are some tips for doing them well: Footnotes ALWAYS (in history papers) go at the end of sentences, after all punctuation. (A helpful note: when you end a sentence with a quotation,

Bugs!

If you’re having technical issues with any of the tools we use in class, strive to give as much information as possible when describing the problem. Answering the following questions is a great start! What tool are you having trouble

Posting to WordPress

Once you have set up a wordpress account, you are ready to post! Login to your Catapult account. Navigate to the “my apps” button and click on it. Locate the subdomain that you created for this class (it should be

Teaching reading notes

When I was in college, a friend of mine made a joke that he couldn’t read novels without a pencil in his hand, because he was so used to note-taking his philosophy books. My father is a professor, but I