Updated: 2024-03-25
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What is this and why are you inviting me to engage with it?
This set of videos invites you into the process I developed over sabbatical for large-scale writing projects – I was building it out as I was doing it.
Watching these videos before seminar will give you some background and context that will help you understand what I am going to be showing you during seminar, otherwise it will be really easy to get lost and I would like to avoid explaining more technical things so we can focus on processes and approaches in seminar.
My portion of seminar is not about how to use Obsidian but rather sharing my developing processes and systems for writing nonlinearly.1
For a sense of how I’ve started to use Obsidian for preparation of scholarly projects – you can scan through the Janice Waldron Project I created, which includes a public portion of interconnected notes from approximately 25 of Janice Waldron’s publications. This was an experiment and ended up being published in Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education (as an “epilogue” with a link to the project).
And now to the large-scale writing project. . . .
I’ve been “working” on this text (not the Janice Waldron Project), for which I use the placeholder “#ImaginingPossibilities” for probably about a decade in terms of thinking, reflecting, writing notes and bits and pieces here and there, chatting with folks about parts of it, but finally started working on it with a clear expectation to submit a contract etc. and in Obsidian during sabbatical. It’s focused on supporting music educators of all kind design, expand, update, and transform music programs and music curricula through curricular inquiry, design, and development with an emphasis on equity, inquiry, futures thinking, what Collins (1998), Coles (2016) call visionary pragmatism (I think), and #ImaginingPossibilities.
Across the videos you’ll observe my trajectory of working on a topic of problem-based learning and how it developed over time, and how I moved from reading and working with articles to writing and organizing writing that might be a part of the end result — a text I plan to publish.
During seminar I’ll take you through some processes of what happens after this initial work shared that you will see in the videos.
A Look into my thinking and writing process with Obsidian. . .
Notes:
- The timestamps to focus on are below each embedded video.
- If the video is blurry, click the little gear icon and choose the highest quality video that your computer/bandwidth can handle
Watch: Live Research: Working on writing project with Obsidian 2023-8-28 (See below the video here for timestamps to follow)
August start of the project 2 weeks in
- 00:17 – 01:53
- 12:20 – 20:50 some ways of organizing the project
- 29:53 – 31:44 explanation
- 47:58 – 52:20 daily notes & systems
Watch Live Research: Organizing ideas and notes for writing with Obsidian from 2023-10-4
October
start – 7:00 on making notes in relation to the project
38:25 – 41:43 zooming out and working with a map of content
November
Watch How I manage my writing in Obsidian at the Start of 2024
Watch Live Research: Set Up for Writing Projects in Obsidian
- 8:04 – 11:20
- 24:52 – 30:15
- Happy to geek out with you on how to use Obsidian for your work – and you can check out some other videos on Obsidian for Academic work I shared on YouTube. ↩︎
