To help everyone remember what you presented tonight, please write up a 2-3 paragraph summary of your final project and post it here. And, as you think of other suggestions for your colleagues, offer those as comments.
November 7, 2006
October 16, 2006
Weeks 7 & 8
Posting Update – Third time must be a charm — Ammon,on my second attempt to post the site was completely down from (7:00 PM – 8:43 PM)
I chose to evaluate two websites from a design perspective. By doing so, I hoped to learn the material of the sites, as well as discover ease of use and if the sites provided creative elements that want me to explore what information and tools are contained within each site.
October 15, 2006
The 2 questions on Digital People’s contributions to knowledge and its communication
We were left with two questions at the end of the last class: (1) Whether the experience of working with digital archival sources is “the same” as working directly with the real thing in archives. (2) Assuming that competence in the digital realm has attained for its adepts the status of members of a sort of sub-culture, what can these adepts contribute to the scholarship of teaching and learning that ordinary mortals from the “analog community” cannot. (1b or 2b)There is another possibility in this question, namely, can people who are competent in creating effective digital means of expression give voice to groups of people, or to objects and “voices” from the past that can make them speak, and hence bring them to the awareness of others who lack this competence.
The alternative extension of the question may illuminate the link between the two. (more…)