A Jekyll template for GIS workshops
WAML 2020 Preconference Workshop
Presenters
Evan Thornberry 
Handsome Devil
GIS Librarian
University of British Columbia Library
evan.thornberry@ubc.ca
Phil White
Tries Hard
Earth, Environment & Geospatial Librarian
University of Colorado Boulder Libraries
philip.white@colorado.edu
- A GitHub.com account. If you don’t already have a GitHub.com account, you can create one here. Take this short video Getting Started with GitHub if you’re brand new and want to get a high-level overview of the platform.
- Comfortable working with code/syntax.
Goal of this workshop
Our goal is to introduce you to how we use GitHub.com for creating and delivering GIS workshops online, so that you can consider using them in your own work. There will be a hands-on section where we will fork (“copy”) an existing workshop repo to your own GitHub account, publish the repo with GitHub Pages, and to make some edits.
You may not feel totally comfortable using GitHub – this is okay. As with any skill, using Jekyll and GitHub Pages takes practice. In this workshop, we want you to understand and get familiar with some of the workflows and terminology so that you are equipped to experiment on your own.
You can view the GitHub repository for this Jekyll site at:
https://github.com/ubc-lib-geo/gis-workshop-waml-template
Schedule
| Time | Content |
|---|---|
| 0:00 | Introductions |
| 0:05 | Land acknowledgement |
| 0:10 | Demystifying GitHub (presentation) |
| 0:50 | Break |
| 1:00 | Forking the workshop template (hands on) |
| 1:10 | A look under the hood (hands on) |
| 1:20 | Create your first page (hands on) |
| 1:30 | Add text & images to a page (hands on) |
| 1:50 | Navigation (hands on) |
| 2:00 | Example Pages |
| 2:10 | Next Steps |
| 2:15 | Wrap Up/ Q&A |
Actual schedule may vary depending on group needs
Workshop Slides
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