The project made available a series of learning objects to be used by education providers in providing hands-on digital forensics education. These resources are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License and are intentionally left with basic formatting and without project branding. Educators, practitioners, and students are encouraged to adapt these materials as much as needed and share them widely.
These discussion questions encourage student engagement with the BitCurator software. Although they were designed to be used in concert with the BitCurator screencasts, they would also pair well with a self-guided or instructor-guided exploration of the BitCurator environment.
Description These discussion questions can be used to encourage student engagement with the BitCurator screencast, Using the BitCurator Reporting Tool: Part 1. The questions can also be used for discussion accompanying a live demonstration, a guided hands-on exercise, or independent exploration of the BitCurator Environment. … Read more →
Description These discussion questions can be used to encourage student engagement with the BitCurator screencast, Using fiwalk to Generate Filesystem Metadata. The questions can also be used for discussion accompanying a live demonstration, a guided hands-on exercise, or independent exploration of the BitCurator Environment. The … Read more →
Description These discussion questions can be used to encourage student engagement with the BitCurator screencast, Safely Mounting Devices. The questions can also be used for discussion accompanying a live demonstration, a guided hands-on exercise, or independent exploration of the BitCurator Environment. The discussion questions and … Read more →
These learning objects are adapted from Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s “Advanced Digital Forensics” class. The sample data referenced in these slides is available here: https://github.com/BitCurator/bcc-dfa-sample-data/
Description These are the slides from Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s “Advanced Digital Forensics” SAA class. There are a number of hands-on exercises included. The sample data referenced in these slides is available here: https://github.com/BitCurator/bcc-dfa-sample-data/ The exercise is available for free download as a PDF … Read more →
Description This hands-on exercise introduces students to forensic artifacts produced by Windows operating systems and tools to analyze them. These slides are excerpted from Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s SAA “Advanced Digital Forensics” class. The sample data referenced in these slides is available here: https://github.com/BitCurator/bcc-dfa-sample-data/ … Read more →
Description This hands-on exercise is meant to introduce students to tools for file format analysis, including PRONOM, Siegfried, and Brunnhilde. These slides are excerpted from Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s SAA “Advanced Digital Forensics” class. These slides are excerpted from Cal Lee’s SAA “Advanced Digital … Read more →
These learning objects use resources created by the OSSArcFlow project (IMLS, 2017-2020) to teach students how to model and compare digital curation workflows.
Description This is an exercise that asks students to take a visual diagram of a born-digital archiving workflow and translate the visual elements into text-based narrative, using a tabular description template. This lesson uses and adapts deliverables from the OSSArcFlow project (IMLS, 2017-2020). The exercise … Read more →
Description This exercise asks students to walk through the steps outlined in the OSSArcFlow Guide to Documenting Born-Digital Archival Workflows. The guide assists collecting institutions to begin documenting their born-digital workflows and map them to functional entities in the Reference Model for an Open Archival … Read more →
Description This is an exercise that asks students to select workflow diagrams from two different institutions and analyze how they represent human agents, technological agents, and the movement of digital objects. Students will not only compare and contrast these workflows, but also discuss their efficacy … Read more →
Description This GitHub repository contains sample data originally collected or created for Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s SAA “Advanced Digital Forensics” class in 2021. The data can be used on its own for testing, teaching, and learning, or it can be used in conjunction with … Read more →
Description The BitCuratorEdu project team built a library of datasets for educational, testing, and research purposes. The library can be accessed via the BitCurator Wiki, below. Learning object type Datasets Learning objectives This learning object might be used in a lesson to satisfy the following … Read more →