As discussed, the “final” versions of your projects are due by midnight on the evening of May 2nd – whatever’s online at that time is what I’ll be grading. Said grading will be along two axes, “Historical Content” and “Implementation”, and the average of both scores will be your project grade.
* Historical Content: Is there [...]
For Tuesday, write a 250-500 word proposal for your final project. The goal here is to lay out a concise description of what you intend to do and how you intend to do it. That in mind, the proposal should include the following:
* Who your audience is
* What you want that audience to take away [...]
There are a bunch of tools out there that will help you integrate information and maps; here’s a sampling:
* Google Map Maker
* My GMaps
Those of you grappling with the question of how to represent footnotes and citations in online work might look at Paula Petrik’s Scholarship on the web: managing endnotes & footnotes…
Here’s a link that at least points toward using FTP for uploads to the american.edu servers
In the interest of learning more about the range of skills and expertise in the class, please take a few minutes to fill out the following survey. The questions cover a wide array of topics, and your candid answers will help me decide how basic or advanced our discussions/tutorials should be. Thanks!
Welcome to this *very* preliminary site for the Spring 2006 incarnation of American University’s History 332/632, “History in the Digital Age.” More information coming shortly.