Technical Tools and Software:
AntConc
Basecamp
Box
Drupal
Gnu Image Manipulation Program [GIMP]
Google docs
Google spreadsheets
NVivo
Timeline JS
XMLSplit
Research Skills:
- Using archival materials, whether digitized or in print, to identify incidents of student activism in the 1930s and 1940s.
- Creating a bibliography of those materials.
Project Management Skills:
- Creating a proposal document, a scope document, and a Gantt chart.
- Articulating a new definition of activism as represented by students at Duke University in the 1930s and 1940s.
- Creating a background bibliography of student activism in the 1930s and 1940s in the United States during those eras.
Specific skills included the following :
- Clarifying the scope of the project.
- Identifying appropriate work-clusters and their participants.
- Distributing and coordinating work responsibilities so that they are feasible.
- For each sub-group: Identifying different orders of work, the skills needed; learning the needed skills; identifying the expertise and experts needed; identifying appropriate search techniques; identifying appropriate software; distributing the work feasibly and practically.
- Resolving questions like copyright and preservation.
- Meeting the initial criteria for the project.
- Publishing the project.
- Managing copyright and preservation.