First Set of Presentations

I just wanted to quickly say that I was very impressed with all of the projects that were presented on 12/10.  I know that this assignment was challenging because it involved combining history with new types of technology that I was not very comfortable with at first.  I think that many of us were in [...]

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Response to week 12 readings

As an educator I haven’t spent that much time worrying about copyright laws, but I guess I should.  I found chapter 7 of the Digital History book to be interesting and informative.  I was unsure what the “public domain” meant, but now I understand that it means these items are free of copyright restrictions.  I [...]

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Rethinking Museums

The readings for this week focused around the idea of the public being able to tag and label electronic museum exhibits.  There were some who were proponents of the idea because they feel it will get the public more involved with the museums and will pique the public’s interest.  This could in turn lead to an [...]

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Our Class Discussion about Libraries

How do we get more people to public libraries????  I don’t really know the answer to this.  I guess they could host events.  But the question came up in class as to whether this would really get more people to use the library for its intended purpose?  And on top of that, as Hunter said, [...]

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Week 8 Comments-late but better than never :)

I’m sorry this post is late, but this past week was a bit crazy for me.  I have to say that I found the readings for this week to be a bit dry.  Electronic libraries…I think they can be useful but it will take a while to work out all of the kinks and I [...]

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Reaction to Digital History – Website How To!

I found the information in Digital History to be interesting and pretty helpful.  While I still an unsure of how to go about creating a website, at least now I know what to watch out for when it comes to style.  I liked how the book gave recommendations on different programs that can be purchased [...]

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Week 4 Response to Readings

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 [...]

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Case Study – Wk 3

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 [...]

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scavenger hunt wk. 3

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  [...]

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Response to Week 3 Readings

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 [...]

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