Assignment Schedule For Digital History |
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(Instructor) Dr. Linda Ivey: ude.yabtsaeusc|yevi.adnil#ude.yabtsaeusc|yevi.adnil(Butler) Lee Davenport: ude.yabtsaeusc.noziroh|tropnevadf#ude.yabtsaeusc.noziroh|tropnevadf |
When and WhereThursday's from 6:30-8:00 pm Room MI-3083 Meiklejohn Hall |
Office Hours:Tuesday/ Thursday 5:00-6:00pm and by appointment MI-4033 Phone:510-885-4015 |
Contact InfoRoom: MI-4036Wanda (History Department): 510-885-3207 |
Required Online Components
- Omeka Exhibit Software :Online Exhibit building software; free version.
- Audio/ Podcast Software :Audio recording software for creating and publishing podcasts.
- Blog Site :Easy to use blog hosting and page creation.
Historians, especially those who work with the public are increasingly becoming dependent on digital tools. This course offers students a basic understanding in the technological skills needed to conduct online historical research and to present the results of their research online. It also introduces students to issues and concerns in digital history such as copyright laws, intellectual property, information overload, social media, and how the Web alters the way historians "talk" to their audience, and the public at large.
Course Goals
- Learn research skills appropriate and necessary for conducting research in the digital age
- Learn to write the results of historical research for a general audience
- Learn to use some of the many tools available in assisting your research and/or exhibits.
- Practice collaborative writing
- Learn to communicate responsibly through blogging.
- Learn basic code writing
- Learn to build timelines
- Create a digital exhibit
Course Breakdown:
This course will consist of several projects, weekly meetings, and four basic structural parts R-T-B-T
- 1) Weekly Readings
- 2) Theory-crafting: Discussion directed at the digital history field and your readings
- 3) Blogs: writing and responding weekly
- 4) Tools: each week we will introduce new tools that range from very simple to a bit more complicated for aiding you with research and display.
Rosenzweig, Digital History.
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FREE Online Version No page numbers, but priced right.
Written by one of the pioneers in digital history, this is a good book for gaining a foothold on the complex world of academia on the web.
Syllabus PDF
Week One: 4-5-2012
Introduction to course (general, grading, assignments, etc)
4-parts to every week: Readings, Theory, Blogs, Tools: (tied to readings) RTBT.
Blogs (introduce blog tools)
MAIN THEME!!!! ( Masters Project )
Assignments due this week
a. set up blog, http://wordpress.org/.
b. introduction blog
c. software needed
d. Digital Campus Podcasts subscription, http://digitalcampus.tv/.
Week Two: 4-12-2012
R: What is Digital History?
Digital history is an approach to examining and representing the past that works with the new communication technologies of the computer, the Internet network, and software systems. On one level, digital history is an open arena of scholarly production and communication, encompassing the development of new course materials and scholarly data collections. On another, it is a methodological approach framed by the hypertextual power of these technologies to make, define, query, and annotate associations in the human record of the past. To do digital history, then, is to create a framework, an ontology, through the technology for people to experience, read, and follow an argument about a historical problembold text. -William G. Thomas III.
1. Orville Vernon Burton, "http://chnm.gmu.edu/essays-on-history-new-media/essays/?essayid=30" Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 23 No. 2, Summer 2005, pp. 206-220.
2. Daniel J. Cohen, Michael Frisch, Patrick Gallagher, Steven Mintz, Kirsten Sword, Amy Murrell Taylor, William G. Thomas, III, William J. Turkel, "http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/issues/952/interchange/index.html" Journal of American History 95:2 2008.
3. Roy Rosenzweig, Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past, “http://chnm.gmu.edu/essays-on-history-new-media/essays/?essayid=42” Journal of American History, 93:1 2006, P.117-146.
4. Martha Saxton, “Wikipedia and Women’s History: A Classroom Experience, http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu/crowdsourcing/saxton-etal-2012-spring/#fn-3077-5 : Source- Dougherty, Jack. “Wikipedia and Women’s History (Saxton).” Writing History in the Digital Age, March 19, 2012. http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu/crowdsourcing/saxton-etal-2012-spring/.
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6. Daniel J Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig,Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web,Philidelphia: University of Philidelphia Press, 2006, http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/introduction/. (Introduction)
T: state of the field, directions, possibilities, pros and cons
B: blog 1 due
T: tools
1) http://eastbaydigitalhistory.wikidot.com/creating-your-page
2) http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/surveys/
3) http://www.zotero.org/
4) http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/polls/
Week Three: 4-19-2012
R: Writing for the Internet
1. Cohen, Dan. “Digital Journalism and Digital Humanities.” Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog, February 8, 2012. http://www.dancohen.org/2012/02/08/digital-journalism-and-digital-humanities/.
2. Roger T. Whitson, Ph.D. “The Ins and Outs of a Professional Academic Website.” February 7, 2012. http://www.rogerwhitson.net/?p=1446.
3. Jeffrey Warren. “Why Collaborative Development Works in a Proprietary World.” Idea Lab: Community for the Digital Age, February 15, 2012. http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2012/02/why-collaborative-development-works-in-a-proprietary-world038.html.
4. Howard, Jennifer. “What You Don’t Know About Copyright, but Should.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 29, 2011, sec. Technology. http://chronicle.com/article/What-You-Dont-Know-About/127706/.
5. Young, Jeffrey R. “Pushing Back Against Legal Threats by Putting Fair Use Forward.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 29, 2011, sec. Technology. http://chronicle.com/article/Pushing-Back-Against-Legal/127690/.
6. Stanford University Libraries/Academic Information Resources. “Copyright Law and Fair Use.” Academic Computing Publications, http://www-sul.stanford.edu/cpyright.html.
7. Daniel J Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig,Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web,Philidelphia: University of Philidelphia Press, 2006, p. 12-13, 34-35, and Ch. 7. http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/copyright/.
T: Tone and authorship in digital media
B: Blog #2 due
T: Tools
Week Four: 4-26-2012
R: Abusing the Ken Burns Effect: Audion/Video production for historical projects.
1. Daniel J Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig,Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web,Philidelphia: University of Philidelphia Press, Chapter 3-pp80-107. http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/digitizing/.
2. Charles Williams, 1997.http://homepage.mac.com/williamszone/dostal/research/historical.html.
T: Overused or effective medium for storytelling?
B: Blog #3 Due
T: Tools
Week Five: 5-3-2012
R: Web Based Research: Consumers and Providers.
1. Kelly Schrum and T. Mills Kelly, "http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/files/world_history_matters_intro.pdf", December 2008.
2. Sutton, Shan C. “Bringing the Borderlands to the Web: The Arizona-Sonora Documents Online Project.” The Western Historical Quarterly 36, no. 2 (July 1, 2005): 201–207. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25443147 or PDF (..\..\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\q9cvathh.default\zotero\storage\B3UE8TPE\Sutton - 2005 - Bringing the Borderlands to the Web The Arizona-S.pdf)
3. Ward, Christine W. “Documenting New York: Identifying and Saving New York’s Primary Sources.” The Public Historian 33, no. 3 (2011): 99–115. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/tph.2011.33.3.99 or PDF (..\..\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\q9cvathh.default\zotero\storage\KR2PJ7VA\Ward - 2011 - Documenting New York Identifying and Saving New Y.pdf)
4. Jon Hunner. “Historic Environment Education: Using Nearby History in Classrooms and Museums.” The Public Historian 33, no. 1 (February 1, 2011): 33–43. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/tph.2011.33.1.33 or PDF (..\..\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\q9cvathh.default\zotero\storage\T5JCU5CJ\Jon Hunner - 2011 - Historic Environment Education Using Nearby Histo.pdf)
5. Wills, Deborah. “Teaching the Unteachable: Helping Students Make Sense of the Web.” College Teaching 52, no. 1 (January 1, 2004): 2–5. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27559165 or PDF (..\..\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\q9cvathh.default\zotero\storage\BK2NSFAV\Wills - 2004 - Teaching the Unteachable Helping Students Make Se.pdf)
6. Piccoli, Gabriele, Rami Ahmad, and Blake Ives. “Web-Based Virtual Learning Environments: A Research Framework and a Preliminary Assessment of Effectiveness in Basic IT Skills Training.” MIS Quarterly 25, no. 4 (December 1, 2001): 401–426. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3250989 or PDF (..\..\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\q9cvathh.default\zotero\storage\JFMWXCQ4\Piccoli et al. - 2001 - Web-Based Virtual Learning Environments A Researc.pdf)
T: Making sense of the web
B: Blog #4 Due
T: Tools
No Tools this week. Get caught up with your blogs/writings or take a sneak peek at the Omeka site..that's going to be the big tool we use this quarter.
Week Six: 5-10-2012
R: Omeka!
1. Omeka. Forums. http://omeka.org/forums/.
2. Martin R Kalfatovic, Creating a winning online exhibition : a guide for libraries, archives, and museums (2002), Chapter 1-3, Chapter 8, and Appendix B: "Online Exhibitions Versus Digital Collections," "The Idea," "Executing the Idea," "Design," and "Sample Exhibition Script."http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/CDH/kalfatovic.pdf. Skim for specific questions.
3. Omeka, Sites Powered by Omeka, http://omeka.org/codex/View_Sites_Powered_by_Omeka
4. Daniel J Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web,Philidelphia: University of Philidelphia Press, Chapter 4- pp108-140. http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/designing/.
T: All about Omeka and exhibit design
B: Blog #5 Due
T: Tools
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Week Seven: 5-17-2012
R: Behind the scenes:html, CSS, sanscrit- Sprechen Sie Java? [[/span]]
1. Daniel J Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig,Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web,Philidelphia: University of Philidelphia Press, Chapter 2- 51-79. http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/starting/.
2. Just one this week
T: A look at the 1's and 0's
B: Blog #6 Due
T: Tools
http://www.htmldog.com/guides/htmlbeginner/
http://www.htmldog.com/guides/cssbeginner/
http://www.htmldog.com/guides/htmlintermediate/
http://www.htmldog.com/guides/cssintermediate/
Week Eight: 5-24-2012
R: Who will “Friend” your historical exhibits? Social Media and History.
1. Stephanie S. Yee, “Social Media: Connecting Curators to Museum Patrons, http://myportfolio.usc.edu/stephasy/2010/09/social_media_connecting_curators_to_museum_patrons.html
2. Daniel J Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig,Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web,Philidelphia: University of Philidelphia Press, Chapter 5-pp.141-159. http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/audience/.
T: Youtube and You
B: Blog #7 Due
T: Tools
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc Kony 2012 video
Week Nine: 5-31-2012
R: Grab Bag: Archival Software, GIS, and the Google Universe.
1. Knowles, Anne Kelly, and Amy Hillier. Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship. ESRI, Inc., 2008. http://books.google.com/books?id=VN1v7rzhSQEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Placing+History&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Vi1wT7mZNuKhiALitfmDBQ&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Placing%20History&f=false Pages 1-25.
2. http://archivalsoftware.pbworks.com/w/page/13600259/Past%20Perfect%20Matrix
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth
T: What will you use?
B: Blog # 8 Due
T: Tools
https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/GeoHack
http://www.google.com/earth/learn/beginner.html
http://www.museumsoftware.com/userguide.shtml
Week Ten:R: DH1's Where are they Now? Blogs and Presentations 1. Daniel J Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig,Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web,Philidelphia: University of Philidelphia Press, Chapter 8-pp. 220-248. http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/preserving/. T: Blog feedback, what is the significance of our experience this quarter? B: No Blogs Due. T: How to eat with one hand and write code with the other. |
Finals Week:
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