It’s common for students to not yet have all the skills required to develop their digital project. Here are some ways to change that:

• Attend GC Digital Research Institute (DRI) an online week-long introduction to core digital skills, offered each January
• Digital skills and related workshops are offered by many GC groups – the Digital Fellows, ITP Program, Publics Lab, Teaching and Learning Center, Quantitative Research Consulting Center, and the Library. Keep an eye on EO/APO emails and bookmark these pages!
• Request a Digital Fellow Consultation–a 1-1 consultation with a digital fellow to talk through digital dissertation ideas and determine what skills you need
• Utilize CUNY’s access to online tech tutorials via LinkedIn Learning–a website that offers online tutorials and courses covering a wide array of digital skills (note: NYPL card credentials required)
• Review the Library’s Digital Tools and Techniques Guide
• Get a handle on project management! Organization skills are as important as technical! As previously mentioned, ITP Program in particular tends to offer project management workshops each year.
• Digital skills summer institutes offer key skills outside of the semester–popular options include: Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria, Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, Dream Lab at University of Pennsylvania’s Price Lab, Summer Institutes in Computational Social Sciences (SICSS)
• Read digital skills blogs and other freely available digital guides–some recommendations include Jonathan Reeve’s blog post “Best Practices for Dissertations in the 21st Century” (focused on digital dissertations exclusively), Programming Historian (a comprehensive website for tech tutorials), Digital Fellow Nicole Cote’s VisDepot guide (for beginner friendly data & visualization resources), the Data Sitters Club project (for computational text analysis), Melanie Walsh’s free Introduction to Cultural Analytics & Python textbook, and the Tool Tips section of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) (for digital pedagogy folks)

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