History in the Digital Age

*Assignment Due: “Digitization”:http://chnm.gmu.edu/staff/josh/courses/AU377/?p=5 *
*First Half: Organization*
Readings:
* skim: “_The Character, Value, and Management of Personal Paper Archives_, Steve Whittaker and Julia Hirschberg, ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction, 2001 (Vol. 8, pp. 150-170)”:http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=376932&jmp=abstract&dl=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=67859183&CFTOKEN=9119355#abstract
* skim: “Case, Donald Owen. _Conceptual Organization and Retrieval of Text by Historians: The Role of Memory and Metaphor_, Journal of the American Society [...]

___A quick note on the assignment for this week – I had wanted to take the topics discussed in reading and class and ask you apply them to your own interests, but couldn’t come up with a way to ask you to do so without it feeling like “work for work’s sake.” That in mind, [...]

*First Half: Finding Historical Materials Online*
Visit by Melissa Becher, AU library
Other resources:
* Internet Librarian: 30 Search Tips in 40 Minutes
*Second Half: Collecting Historical Materials Online*
Readings:
* _Digital History_, “Collecting History Online”
* William Turkel, Teaching Young Historians to Search, Spider and Scrape
* Look over the following sites:
** “The Video Store Project”:http://www.videostoreproject.com
** “The September 11 Digital Archive”:http://911digitalarchive.org
** “The [...]

*First Half: Technical bootcamp*
Readings:
* “_Digital History_, Getting Started”:http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/starting/
Presentation: “Technical Bootcamp”:http://chnm.gmu.edu/staff/josh/courses/AU377/stuff/TechnicalBootcamp.html
*Second Half: Dreamweaver Tutorial*
*Assignment (Due 2/28)*
In addition to the readings for next week, create a webpage around the object that you digitized earlier this month, upload it to your G: drive and link to it from your blog. The design and content are entirely up to [...]

*First Half*
* Introduction to Course
* “General Survey”:http://chnm.gmu.edu/staff/josh/courses/AU377/?p=20
*Second Half: Blog Setup*
* Introduction to Wordpress
* RSS Readers
** “Bloglines”:http://www.bloglines.com