I have never been a huge fan of Wikipedia because it has always been drilled into my head that it is such an unreliable source for information. In the past, I never bothered to read up on how Wikipedia works. I just assumed that because my professors and fellow colleagues didn’t trust it, that I [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Week 4 Response to Readings
Posted in Uncategorized on September 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Case Study – Wk 3
Posted in Uncategorized on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For this week’s case study I chose http://historymatters.gmu.edu/ it is one website with a TON of potential and a viewer would need to put aside quite a bit of time to review everything that it encompasses. Below I have summarized the main sections/links the site has.
The Many Pasts feature was pretty cool. It contains primary [...]
scavenger hunt wk. 3
Posted in Uncategorized on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, I think #2 is at: http://www.fullbooks.com/Are-Women-People-.html and I found this by typing the search term in ” ” in google.
#3 http://books.google.com/books?id=p-gsAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA378&lpg=PA378&dq=George+washington+letter+to+timothy+pickering+about+forged+letters&source=web&ots=gKkNZcnwT6&sig=e4-XfcLYGVS0z_dwQEgzajF59Ic&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result I found this by searching for George washington letter to timothy pickering about forged letters
#4 http://www.afroam.org/history/million/lynch/lynch.html In google I typed in Willie Lynch telling Virginia slave owners how to keep slaves in line.
#5 ??
#6 [...]
Response to Week 3 Readings
Posted in Uncategorized on September 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I would like to start out by commenting on the articles we were asked to read. I had no idea there was even a feud/debate going on about copyrights and digitizing books. I found this to be rather interesting. I have a tendency (as do many people) to focus on how issues will affect me [...]
Response to Week 2 Readings
Posted in Uncategorized on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Overall I would have to say that I found two of the three readings for this week to be very interesting and one of the three to be useful for my current profession as a high school teacher. The Project Muse article, “Digital Junction” was great. The article begins with a criticism of the internet that [...]
Response to Dan Cohen’s Article
Posted in Uncategorized on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I found Dan Cohen’s article to be an interesting and humorous look at why professional historians do not use blogs and why they should start. I often think of blogging as something my students (teenagers) spend their time doing, and so I chuckled when I read how professionals often think of blogging as an activity [...]
My first post…how exciting!!
Posted in Uncategorized on September 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hey all, my name is Kate. I am very excited to be taking History 511 because I think it will really enhance my teaching. I am a high school social studies teacher in Lebanon, CT. Most of the time I feel like the students know so much more than I do about technology….maybe I will [...]
