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hi again Dan alaso here and um I have been meaning to kind of return to this project that I'm working on where I am creating this primary source open textbook that is going to include all of
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these sources that I have found uh I found a couple hundred actually that I put in to this thing and now what I'm doing is I'm sort of going through the process of editing them so that they won't really be
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too much for my students to read and so one of the things that I've been doing is I've been going through each of these accounts and um many of them as you'll see this one was on this one was
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big this one's only 1200 words I am going through that one also I'm going through these uh one by one and actually kind of editing them for really punctuation and the way the
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sentences flow because many of these things especially in the very early period in the you know things that were originally written in the early 17th century they tend to have really long
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run-on sentences and it's difficult it's kind of painful for students to read so I will be going through this this one is only 922 words so I don't have to edit it for length many of them though were this one's 1800 so that's a little long
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many of them were 2 000 plus you know some of them verging on 3 000 words and so those are the ones that I'm going to want to try to um reduce the the cats are going a
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little bit crazier try to reduce the the length of and get them to sort of a and even number like 1500 words because I think that that is enough for students
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to kind of get a flavor of the style and the personality of the author and also the perspective of the author and hopefully many of the main points of the author if I edited skillfully enough and
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kind of include and could and continue the things that are um interesting and kind of allow students to focus more clearly on those and move some of the the dead wood out of the way
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so what I am doing as I am working on this though is and in in the case of this one this is the first account of New England uh it's by a guy by the name of John brereton who described New
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England in a letter to Sir Walter Raleigh um he's describing the islands off of Buzzards Bay in um and what's now Cape Cod
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and this appeared in a um and many different uh forums but the one that I got it from was this uh Sailors narratives of voyages along the New
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England coast 15 24 to 1624 which was published in 1905 and I found a copy of that on the internet archive so as I'm doing this I am I'm taking these things that I had
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already kind of loaded in here and I am editing them down and I am I'm making them more readable one of the things that I want to do here is that as I am
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editing these I'm also editing them in my primary source timeline over here in scrantal and so that one's 1602 so yeah it's this one
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here I went too far here we go pull it back a little bit yeah this one and so if I make it big I've already sort of cut and paste this
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edited version so I brought it down from 3000 plus words to about 1500 and so one of the things that I do want to do over here as I am
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working on this is I want to do links right so one of the things that is important to me in this I think that is the one about Virginia and I'll just take off the 1584 84
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doesn't need that well now we will link to Virginia are there any other things that I need to link in here um obviously he's describing uh well he's describing the Cod right and I'm
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very interested sort of in Europeans interest in the Atlantic Cod so I'll add a link to that I'm very interested in the fact that they are
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very interested in Newfoundland uh what they're doing here of course is this author is comparing the value of the Georges border later will be called George's Bank The Fishery the
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Cod fishery off of the um off of Cape Cod to the Grand Banks and what he says here is that you can fish for COD here in seven fathoms of water
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rather than 40 or 50 Fathoms in the grand Banks and so that is a really valuable uh thing to understand when you're thinking about why people would be excited about the fact that they have
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found Cod off of the Cape Cod Coast right and so these are these are some of the things that motivate people to pursue these territories right and to fight over them
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and to uh to fight the natives who live there and to try to take it away from them uh at first they're not fighting the natives they are um trading with them and they're they're
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making they're kind of making peaceful advances on them and and trying to to kind of get them on their side and uh ingratiate themselves right so I want to
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talk about I want to connect with Indians there um also there is a passage in here where he talks about tobacco okay I've already got that highlighted so these are some of the
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things that I and also that it connects with Walter Raleigh right so these are some of the things that will now have links in this document so it's going to replenish yeah it
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refreshes and now this yeah now there are links all over the place and actually one of the things that I need to do is uh that I I linked to Tobacco I actually created a link to
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tobacco and that that created a blank um a blank page and so what I need to do here is I need to create a oops I need to create a
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I do want to leave that side thank you um I want to create a page for tobacco so that my students as their learning about
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these things they can understand you know how tobacco fits in and so the history of tobacco right so tobacco um
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I want to put at the right point right so first European to bring tobacco seeds following the orders of 1559 King Philip II right so Spanish
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tobacco is very very important so let's move this back to 15. the neighborhood of come on 1559 right about here and what I want to say about tobacco
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uh a native plant that was extensively used by
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native people first brought to Gear Up and around
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1559 on the orders of King and there's a link here too Phillip oops one Phillip the sacrament there he is
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of Spain the Spaniards believed to be superior to many varieties
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that natives used John Rolfe ather I don't have John Rolfe yet John Rolfe no that's not right
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create genre if that's what I want to do smuggled Spanish tobacco oops that happened sometimes I smuggle the
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Spanish tobacco into Jamestown helped save so that's a little bit on Tobacco let's get a good
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piece of earliest depiction of a man okay so that has an interesting early depiction of a man smoking tobacco and we will take that and drag it into
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this tobacco image or into this tobacco thing and that of course leads me to probably need to write a quick blurb about John Roth
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John Roth husband of uh 1585 to 1622. uh Englishman settler
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level Jamestown Virginia which I already have right so I'll say do a link to that yeah
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I was about um Pocahontas do I have her yes I do um and tobacco planter now I don't need to bi-directionally
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link I don't need to make a link for tobacco there so we'll just put this picture of Mata matawaka or Pocahontas in there as well so this is the earliest
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known think that's at 15.95 on a double check it yeah 15.95 okay all right so that is kind of how I do it now I don't
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um really require myself to add lots and lots of additional cards but I do want there to be kind of a a
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breadcrumb trail so that students who are reading about for example this this passage here can or was it this this Virginia passage right they can you
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know learn some of the things right people who are learning you know who are doing this this one right can learned that well hey wait a minute that's kind of interesting right Virginia is really associated with
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tobacco but now New England has a connection to Tobacco as well so that is kind of one of the one of the interesting ways oh the reason that this didn't upload forgot I wanted it works much better if
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I actually take I tried to just drag a thumbnail that was a mistake I don't want to use a thumbnail image anyway I want to use a better quality image so let me get rid of that and then the thing that I've dragged to my
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desktop and that will be much easier to send over screen to run so and and this guy lived from 1585 to
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1622 so he shouldn't go there he should go in his own time period right and he is a person so we need to go up in person land so tobacco actually I also
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yeah tobacco needs to be green because it's a thing color make that green because that's a thing and then John Rolfe is a person okay he won't put him close to
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Pocahontas I suppose because they're connected their stories are tied together right so boom there we go so that is how I could do this uh it's a
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it's a work in progress It's going to be continuing work now the beauty is they have improved in the last uh version of this that just came out I think today they have improved the publish so I can see when the last time I published it
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was and then I can also see the process and the of publishing and the progress that it's making so that I don't get confused and I don't get frustrated that you know wondering whether or not it's happened or not it will do its thing and
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it will tell me when it has done it and then I'll see the time that the the new publishing went through and then so the next time that anybody who has the link to this so all my students have it right
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um when the next time they open it it will open this new one with these additional cards so I think that's kind of cool and I'm very I'm very impressed with this uh later on
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this week at the end of the week I think I'm going to have a um uh Zoom meeting with one of the scrantal people over in um and Stockholm I guess is where they are
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isn't it and uh and I'm gonna show this off and you know maybe a little bit more organized way but I thought people might be interested in this so so I hope you did find this a little bit interesting thank you very much for watching and
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listening I will see you again [Music]
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