Digital History
Outline for Little Berks Talk
How I Got Started
workshop at Center for History and New Media at George Mason University
Dan Cohen, “Professors, Start Your Blogs“
Laura Cohen (no relation) on “social scholarship“
Evolution of Blog
from sandbox to scholarship
see category cloud for themes — women’s history, medical history, disability history, childhood/youth
reports from the field — e.g. conference reviews
some political commentary, [...]
First Digital History Class
I met with my digital history graduate seminar for the first time this week. [as you all know, I was at a conference across the pond. My substitute showed students how to do blogs, all the while saying she thought they were useless -- perhaps I should have her read this article?]
The first session went [...]
Why I Blog
This week, I’ve asked students in my digital history course to read and write a response to Dan Cohen’s article, “Professors Start Your Blogs.” Regular readers of this blog know that I’ve been invited to be part of a panel on women historians who blog for the “Little Berks” in October. My co-panelists are Clio [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Wikipedia and Honors Program
Apparently, there was a heated discussion about banning Wikipedia at last week’s meeting of the CCSU Honors Program
Fortunately, someone convinced our director not to follow the Middlebury College history department’s stand against Wikipedia.
Sure, I’m just as annoyed as anyone when students use Wikipedia entries as their major (or worse their only) source for papers — [...]
AAHM Annual Meeting: Women’s Breakfast
This past weekend I attended the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine in Montreal, Quebec, where I presided over the women’s breakfast and gave a session on using digital history for history of medicine and health sciences.
The women’s breakfast had the largest turnout ever — at least eighty people showed [...]
