What one semester of Praxis taught me
…judging from my notes:
- “A blog post can be anything you want it to be”
- What would you like the Scholar’s Lab staff? SNACKS
- who is the “public”?
- Git is how you engage with the community in code
- Computers are deterministic, and determinism is a cage
- Coding as labour
- International Morse Code: actually, not a binary system but trinary (dots, dashes AND pauses)
- “DH can meld critique, social justice, technology, studies of form and language”
- Consideration for an algorithm: space and time
- US = odd Bonne Maman jars fixation
- sometimes, when we write code, we have to think about strange cases. Think about “edge cases” (technically allowed, but unexpected)
- in Python, WHITE SPACE MATTERS A LOT
- Workflow: pull, edit, save, add, commit, push
- Attention is not a renewable resource
- Speculative minimalist workshop design can offer both training in digital pedagogy and transformative professional development
- Idea of “beyond buttonology”
- Hack-a-thon: short-term collaboration intervention together, lightweight, interesting
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- Entice, 2. Inform, 3. Provoke
- SAVE THE FILE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (for changes to appear) (ctrl+s)
- Praxathon = research interest + format + method
- Is it happy or is it sad?
- Just because it’s low tech, doesn’t mean it’s not technical
- Teaching is more than delivering content. Your classroom may be the only safe space some students have.
- “Too many ghosts:(“
- How to credit: potentially create a humans.txt. file
- Inside HTML, tells it to treat it as Javascript
- Favourite Yellow Journal headline: “UVA OUT OF NOTABLE ALUMNI, FORCED TO NAME THE NEW DORM “BANJO KAZOOIE”