Learner Profiles
An is in the final months of her Masters program in Digital Humanities. During her six-month lab internship, she started using a couple of tools available on GitHub, and became familiar with the interface. She has really enjoyed this part of the internship and other technical aspects of her Masters and now wants to find work in digitization of rare books and other written material. She wants to increase her online profile as she enters the job market, and she knows that a personal website and online CV are a good place to start with this. An still needs to finish writing her thesis and doesn’t have a lot of time to spare for creating a website from scratch, nor a lot of money to pay for hosting, domain names, and so on. This lesson will teach An how to find and use an existing template to create her personal webpage and online CV, how to write formatted text and insert images to highlight the skills she has picked up, and how to host those pages online.
Anita is a newly-certified Carpentries instructor. A librarian for the biology library at her institution, she learned to work with HTML when she did her masters in library science. Since grad school, she has been picking up other coding skills and has recently learned R. The Carpentries instructor who taught her R encouraged her to take Carpentries Instructor Training. She has never used Git before but wants to help edit the Carpentries teaching material and create new lessons on topics she thinks would be useful for the students and staff she works with. After working through this lesson Anita will be comfortable using Github to modify the Carpentries lessons.
Arjun is a third-year PhD student studying atmospheric chemistry. He uses Python in his research every day and keeps all his scripts and files under version control with Git. His supervisor is a new group leader and Arjun was the first PhD student she recruited. Now that her lab has begun to publish the results of their research, she has tasked Arjun with setting up a website for the group. The time and budget the group has for developing and maintaining the site are limited, and Arjun wants to make sure his labmates can access and edit the pages. He has seen some other labs use GitHub Pages to host their websites and thinks this is a good opportunity to put his Git skills to work. After following this lesson, Arjun will be able to create and maintain the structure of the lab website through GitHub Pages, and begin teaching his colleagues how to collaborate on the content.