I started scratching out ideas for what this ‘intro to digital archaeology’ class might look like as I taught my early summer course, ‘Crafting Digital History.’ Scratches became mindmaps and random scraps of paper and orphaned text files. One thing that I found really worked well with the DH course was that it had a regular beat to it. Each week, the rhythm and routine was the same, although within that there was a lot of choice about what to do and how to approach it. I want to preserve that for the digiarch class; I also want to provide more signposts along the way, so I’m planning to seed the readings with my own annotations using hypothes.is; I also saw someone on Twitter mention that they might embed short wee videos of themselves speaking about each reading, in the reading via annotation and I thought, ‘my god, that’s brilliant’ and so I’ll give that a try too. I have the link to the tweet somewhere, just not here as I write.

Anyway, in the interests of providing more structure and more presence, I’ve also been building trailers for the course and the modules within it. Making these have helped narrow down what it is I want to do; you can’t touch on everything, so you’d better go deep rather than wide. Without further ado…

and a bit about me…