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Core Webinar: Build Your Personal Website With Quarto: An Introduction to GitHub Pages, Markdown, and R Studio (Part 1 of 4-part series)
Date: Tuesday, October 8, 2024
All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11 am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 pm Central, and 2 pm Eastern time.
Description: This introductory webinar lays the groundwork with some basic skills required to use GitHub Pages and Quarto for building a personal website. Participants will learn about GitHub and GitHub Pages, authoring documents using Markdown, and building Quarto projects in R Studio. By the end of the workshop, participants will have created a GitHub account and set it up to use GitHub Pages, written a basic webpage using Markdown, committed changes to a GitHub project, created a simple webpage, and created a Quarto project in R Studio.
Part 1 of 4-part series: Build Your Personal Website With Quarto
Are you interested in sharing your work, such as scholarship, creative work, and other projects, and increasing your online visibility? Creating a personal website allows you to highlight yourself and your work, develop an online presence that connects people to you and your work, and share your thoughts in a blog or other pages. Having a personal website is a great way for consultants or speakers to market their services and develop a portfolio of past work; for researchers and scholars to share their publications, including archiving for green open access; for public intellectuals to write blog posts and direct readers to their other writings; and for creatives to highlight their work in various formats and media.
This four-part webinar series will provide a basic foundation to get a personal website started and develop the skills to continue building and maintaining your site. We'll rely on Quarto and GitHub Pages: Quarto makes publishing websites simple while providing a lot of customizability for users interested in going deeper, and GitHub Pages allows users to publish their websites for free.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of this webinar, the attendees will:
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Create a GitHub account and activate GitHub Pages
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Write a webpage using basic markdown
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Publish a webpage using GitHub Pages
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Access GitHub Documentation
Who should attend?
Library leaders, researchers, and consultants who want to highlight themselves and their work using a personal website.
Presenter:
Matthew Weirick Johnson (they/he) is the Director of Research & Instruction at the University of South Florida Libraries.
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Registration fees for webinar: Core Member $57.67; ALA member: $71.10; Non-member $79.00
Registration fees for series: Core Member $174.47; ALA member: $215.00; Non-member $239.00
For additional information and access to registration links, please go to the following website:
https://elearning.ala.org/local/catalog/view/product.php?productid=1277
For additional information and access to registration links for the series as a whole:
https://elearning.ala.org/local/catalog/view/product.php?productid=1275
Core webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording shortly following the live event.
For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling 1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration@ala.org.
For all other questions or comments related to Core webinars, please contact Core CE staff at corece@ala.org.
*Posted on behalf of the Core Continuing Education Committee.*
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