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-# learn-static
+# Learn-Static
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+> Powering Digital Humanities Teaching and Learning with Static Web Approaches
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+<https://learn-static.github.io/>
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+Welcome to the Learn-Static organization, a home for Digital Humanities-focused static web teaching modules and project templates.
+The inter-institutional team behind the Learn-Static initiative was funded by a [National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)](https://www.neh.gov/) Digital Humanities Advancement Grant in 2021 to create the following initial tools:
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+- 5 Foundational Learning Modules covering basic introductory concepts in static web development:
+  - GitHub
+  - HTML/CSS
+  - Markdown
+  - Data
+  - Computational Methods
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+- 4 DH classroom static web project templates and accompanying documentation:
+  - Digital Collections
+  - Digital Oral Histories
+  - Text Analysis
+  - Digital Project Recovery
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+Librarians and Humanities faculty at the University of Idaho and University of Oregon developed, piloted, and evaluated these educational tools over the 2021-2022 school year.
+Learn-Static tools and the methodology behind them stem from the digital collections platform [CollectionBuilder](https://collectionbuilder.github.io/) and the [Lib-Static](https://lib-static.github.io/) community.