This document provides an overview and schedule for an introduction to digital liberal arts course. It outlines using wikis and academic sources to research topics and aggregate primary, secondary, and tertiary sources. It reviews using tools like Delicious, Zotero, and blogs to organize research. The remaining class schedule focuses on techniques like creating category pages, inserting internal links, dragging Zotero references, using ScribeFire to create posts, and adding footnotes.

1. Studio 10
Wikis, Projects, Hacks
Introduction to the Digital Liberal Arts
MDST 3703 / 7703
Fall 2010

2. Overview
• A quick look at wikis as scholarly resources
• Scrum
• Review Instructions & Guidelines
• Plan final month of development
• Focus on techniques for building out your
project sites

3. Academic Wikis
• Spend 10 minutes searching for content
related to your topic
• Use http://www.wiki.com/
• Also use Wikipedia’s links
– References
– External Links

4. Scum

5. Project Review
• Continue aggregating sources – primary,
secondary, tertiary
• In your own blog, take notes on your findings
– In addition to synthetic posts, keep notes and
queries in your own blog; you don’t have to make
these public
• Begin thinking about your synthetic pages
– “At least two 1000 word pages, each showing
evidence of connecting to the evidence and
secondary source elements of your site.”

6. Remaining Studio Schedule
• 11/04 – Today
• 11/11 – Working with maps and timelines
• 11/18 – Brief look at presentation tools
– Also project time
– Turn your attention toward your synthetic essays
• 11/25 – Thanksgiving
• 12/02 – Project time

7. WorkFlow
• Use Delicious in the process of discovery
• Use Zotero to organize secondary and tertiary
sources
• Create posts for individual items
– Use Categories and tags to organize them
– Include Zotero reference in 1ary and 2ary sources
– Always give a URL for primary sources
• Create pages for your synthetic content
– Link to posts and re-embed content

8. Techniques and Hacks
• Creating a page for categories
• Using RB Internal Links to link to content on
your site
• Dragging Zotero references into your pages
and posts
• Using ScribeFire to create posts from web
content
• Creating footnotes with WP-Footnotes

9. Hack 1: Create a Category Page
1. Requirements
– Some posts with categories
– A category widget to see your category links
– A theme that works with this (fails in Carrington)
2. Create a new page and leave it blank
3. In the title, put an HTML link to the category
page, e.g.
<a href=“/mysite/category/foo”>FOO</a>
– To find the right URL format, grab a URL from a
category link on your site (from the widget or a post)

10. Hack 1.5: Use Category Widgets
• Enable one or more of the following widgets:
– Category
– AVH Extended Categories: Top Category
– AVH Extended Categories: Category Group
• Go to Appearance  Widgets and drag
widgets into regions on the right
– Regions vary by theme

11. Hack 2: Put Internal Links in your
Pages and Posts
1. Activate the plugin RB Internal Links
2. Configure Settings  RB Internal Links
3. Create a page or post
4. Click on the RB Internal Links icon
5. Select the item in the dialog box
6. It will insert a shortcode into your editor

12. Hack 3: Drag a Zotero Reference into a
Page or Post
1. Edit or create a page or a post
2. Open Zotero in your browser
3. Find the reference you want
– Make sure it is has complete data
4. Drag the title from the list into your post
5. Reformat as necessary
– It adds less cruft if you do it in HTML mode

13. Hack 4: Use ScribeFire to Create Posts
1. Install the ScribeFire extension FireFox (done)
2. Get your WordPress password
– Not normally needed (Netbadge handle auth)
– Sent by email when your account was created
– To get a new one, go to: http://pages.shanti.virginia.edu/wp-
login.php and click on “Lost your password?” link
3. Enable XML-RPC in Settings  Writing
4. Add your blog to ScribeFire
– In Blogs  Add paste your blog’s URL into the dialog box
– If autoconfig does not work, choose “Configure Manually”
– Blog type = WordPress
– API URLhttp://pages.shanti.virginia.edu/YOURBLOG/xmlrpc.php
5. Right click on web pages and select ScribeFire  “Blog this
Page”

14. Hack 5: Use Footnotes in your Pages
and Posts
1. Activate the WP-Footnotes Plugin
2. Write your footnotes in-line and surround with
double parentheses, like so:
I am writing. I've just quoted
someone else's work, and I want to
cite it. So I do. ((“The End of
Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the
Scientific Method Obsolete,” n.d.,
http://www.wired.com/science/discov
eries/magazine/16-07/pb_theory.))
Now I write my next idea.
3. Leave a space before and after the parens.