Mapping the Civil War
For this week’s practicum, I created a map using Google Map Engine, which allows users to plot events in specific geographic locations. In this example, the class used data from the 1st Regiment of the...
View ArticlePublic History on the Web
The confluence of public history and technology has enabled the average person to explore historical topics without ever leaving their home. Over the past two decades, the growth of websites dedicated...
View ArticleTrying out Omeka
Once I was able to finally get Omeka installed on my website, the program proved quite easy to use, which was great! I decided to use image files from the photo album of Henry W. Schweigert, which is...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing History, the Good and the Bad
This week, we are taking a look at crowdsourcing and how it can help and also hinder how history is used on the web. The idea of crowdsourcing in history isn’t new, as many genealogists and volunteers...
View ArticleUsing Games to Teach History
This week’s readings about history’s place in gaming brought up issues such as form over content, games as instructional aids, and whether or not games can be a worthy outlet for historical...
View ArticleDigital Scholarship: Moving Forward while Looking Back
The readings about digital scholarship in the humanities this week have me thinking about the future. As Hitchcock suggest that the book is being replaced by digital texts, I wonder what scholarship,...
View ArticleTo Embargo, or Not to Embargo (Your History Dissertation)
Not actually being a Phd student and having to worry about what I’m going to do after writing a dissertation, I really had no idea that the issue of dissertation embargoes, especially in the history...
View ArticleNotes from Discussion on Copyright/Open Access/Fair Use
I think Monday’s discussion on Copyright/Open Access/Fair Use went rather well considering that the topic is very nuanced, especially when dealing with digital history. The discussion on the embargoing...
View ArticleTurning “Digital Natives” into Digital Historians
One of themes that spans across the readings for this week about teaching digital history, is the notion that “digital natives” (the generation of students who have grown up with computers) are...
View ArticleFinal Project Recap
For my final project, I chose to use Omeka to create an archive of materials from the life of Henry W. Schweigert. Stemming from a long term project on Schweigert that I have been working on for a few...
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