How to create a helpful Q&A forum for class and the wider DH community! - 7 views
started by Christina Stokes on 26 Feb 14
started by Christina Stokes on 26 Feb 14
started by Christina Stokes on 26 Feb 14
One of the great things about our class is that we all have different levels of experience using different tools assigned for each week.Unfortunately I am less experienced than most at using most of these tools and thought it would be a good idea to start a help forum for any students that have encountered problems trying new tools to see if other students could offer some insight on how to solve these problems.
This could then be useful to our group but also to other students in DH as we could continue this forum on wordpress and share insights with other DH courses at Carleton such as professor Shawn Graham's Digital History course or Brian's other digital class. This could also be helpful for the future DH Collaboration Cohort.
I thought I would start with the road blocks I have encountered so far to see if I can get any insight. I first started trying to use the ImagePlot tool. I was able to successfully install Image Plot and Image J. I would like to do a montage with pictures I have converted into JPEG but have not been able to figure how to incorporate more than one image. Unfortunately, the instructional videos on Image J were helpful in learning the tools but there were very few that were useful in how to use ImagePlot. I was wondering if anyone in our class tried to use ImagePlot and could offer any direction to how to use the tool?
Here are the videos I have tried that were not very helpful for making a montage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_Hgfy8vu2k&list=PLA454CA9259872949
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zgvo6GBdX8
The next tool I used was Simple TCT. The installation was quite simple and the tools on the platform are easy to use. The problem I experienced was finding out how to import files. I tried converting files to *txt or *rtf but they would not open in TCT. If anyone has had any success with this let me know!
The online tutorial I used for this platform was:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0KMuQj0o0g&feature=youtu.be
The tutorial was helpful in showing how the platform works but did not offer any insight on how to import word documents or PDFs which is what I could not figure out.
Hopefully I am not the only one who experienced some challenges with these weeks tools and if you have a chance to offer any insight or discuss the challenges you have been experiencing I think it would be helpful for everyone.
The second tool I used was Simple TCT. The online tutorial