Leaflet map

// create a map in the "map" div, set the view to a given place and zoom var map = L.map('map').setView([51.505, -0.09], 13); // add an OpenStreetMap tile layer L.tileLayer('http://{s}.tile.osm.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png', { attribution: '© OpenStreetMap contributors' }).addTo(map); // add a marker in the given location, attach some popup content to it and open the popup L.marker([51.5, -0.09]).addTo(map) .bindPopup('A pretty CSS3 popup.
Easily customizable.') .openPopup();

Caught her in the corner of my eye

Drive her out with fire, Smoke her out with green leaves, Coax her out with salt Tame her with sweets Mind worms fly paper ideas teasing of inspiration accusing of mediocrity Jam filled tar baby dragged out of the ground pulled out by the jawbone sucked out of the marrow licked out of the beater Mind puzzle can't look at it directly blinding, cauterizing a healed wound with impressive scars but loss of range of movement orange bear blind, colostomized and distrusting Maybe a C-section a withered embryo a cyst on the creative ovaries All day sucker a scab to pick the drugless trip has me tearing at my skin A big chunk of sodium exploded in my glass Ate a horse of optimism I was that hungry Narrow escape left me rattled and torn between following the clues and hiding cornfield of whispered doubts lake shore lapping hopeful Twitter stream of Hoping for trickle down but knowing it was flooding away Hockey for brains tells me to let it slide blocking the five hole believing the bumpf Chilling effects Manufacturing consent for Massive head wound

Constance Crompton Courses, Communities and Collaboration: Learning in the Digital Humanities.

Her presentation to the DHSI colloquium.

Getting ready for @CLKCrompton's talk at week 3 of #dhsi2015 pic.twitter.com/2ohPnls0CJ

— Maria Chappell (@MariaAChappell) June 15, 2015

Getting past the Great Man theories of humanities. History How institutions create their histories eg the histories of Digital Humanites Aquinas projects in the punchcards day. V. Bush differential analyser, etc Libraries and computer science are the historical antecedents in the history of DH. Yellow Nineties online Susan Brown Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory Martin Overveire defines DH as "humanities" DH? A discipline? a field? a methodology? Building things dosers do. adding value rag and bone shop, digital bricolage, Victorian era has left its detritus all over history including colonization Colonial Despatches Minimal computing in challenging environments.. Example: History making Lesbian Lists by Dell Richards The idea of lesbians born by culture or those born out of politics. Crompton turned lists into network graphs. Contemporary history. Tara Mcpherson Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation Ryerson Center for Digital Humanities Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada Gephi of Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada 1964-1975. Also a Gephi visualization of the DHSI2015 community.

Here we all are #dhsi2015 says @CLKCrompton pic.twitter.com/A7oywGNuxt

— Margaret Konkol (@mekonkol) June 15, 2015

Day 1 of Drupal

Intro from Quinn
We set up a Drupal instance on Pantheon and used Cyber Duck to import Superfish. Installing modules Look at ch 22 for information about Backup and Migrate modules Feeds

Digital Indigeneity

With Dean Irvine. Papers read. Used Mukurtu Drupal site. Developed TRC site as a class project.

Digital Images

Une flic, Une ball. Student charged with publishing hate against the police for posting a picture of graffi on her Instagram account. http://pressfortruth.ca/top-stories/montreal-activist-charged-after-posting-anti-police-graffiti-instagram/ Then there was the guy who sold poster sized images of Instagram pics of $90,0000.00 each. Said they were public property and besides he had transformed the images by slightly changing the text. HTML, CSS It is not too likely that many people will need to build a web page from scratch, so many templates are available that it wouldn't be energy effective.

Still it was good to have a review of these fundamental skills. When I first took HTML courses many years I built a lot of webpages with teaching resources and hosted them on an institutional server. I adopted blogging fairly early around 1999 and I quickly adopted blogging and wikis as a very practical alternative to the proprietary web servers. I mostly had to work around the IT guys who didn't really think that computers should be used as educational tools, so I was pleased to use Blogger by Pyralabs which very soon after was acquired by Google. After that point I really didn't bother building web pages from scratch. When Dreamweaver came on stream I used it for a while but quickly realized that blogs and wikis worked every bit as well for what I was doing.
Any time I need a review I head to W3Schools and usually end up using a module or snippet of pre-made code.

 While I don't need to build web sites I still occasionally need to tweak the HTML code of the objects I work on, even if it is just re-sizing or modifying embed codes. I work quite a lot with the other applications that we worked on in the course, in fact, I teach many of the resources to the various ICT classes I teach. Audacity is an old standby and hosting audio files on podcasting platforms is old hat. Same for manipulating digital images and video.

One of the first web tools I ever used was Irfanview and I have used it ever since, I still does as good a job as any unless you are looking for a more powerful application with Photoshop capabilities. I use open source GIMP if I need a more powerful tool but most of my image editing needs are pretty basic.

For simple video, I am usually well served by YouTube particularly now that they have included some editing tools. I usually try to use (and teach) free stuff but I do own versions of TechSmith's products, Snagit and Camatasia Studio. I use those for an more advanced video editing I do, but again my need are pretty basic. I
've been using a great product called Brainshark which is a glorified podcasting tool. You can upload a PPT and create a narrated presentation and then edit the whole thing slide by slide.

 I wanted to add a little challenge to the course so I decided to follow up on one of my themes for the week, cryptography. I figured out how to use OpenPuff, a steganographic/digtial watermarking application. I hid a text file in a .jpg file with the password edsnowden. Download the OpenPuff application (quick and easy) and then use it to open this file. It will find the hidden file and ask you for the password.  Fill it in an you will see the secret message.

For the project I teamed up with a group to prepare a video and offered to organize things with a concept map. I don't thing the others in the group were keen on collaborating so everyone did their own thing and then cobbled together a video at the end. My stuff didn't get included which was fine. I circulated the Concept map I created on Twitter and it got a few hits but no big traffic. One woman in particular was very reluctant to use live web pages or social media so the end product, I felt, fell short of the type of thing you would expect of an advance group like this. Even more problematic, the instructors of the course did not provide any web hosting or delve into the administrative and technical issues of making a web page live. Serious short coming for the course. 

Digital Steganography

Encryption as art. Encryption as an element of digital humanities. Justification for encryption in the face of security force arguments that encryption should be illegal. Applications: OpenPuff Scott, J. (2013). Digital Watermarks and Palimpsest Steganography in Special Collections. Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture, 42(4), 204–208. OConnell, J. (n.d.). Cryptography Researchers & Users Could Face Jail Time In Australia, UK. Retrieved June 1, 2015, from https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/cryptography-researchers-users-face-jail-time-australia/