Discovering Digital History

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  • About the Course
  • About the Instructor
  • Assignments
    • Building the Discovering 1919 Site
      • Building Discovering 1919 Grading Rubric
    • Crowdsourcing Project
      • Crowdsourcing Presentation Grading Rubric
    • Discovering 1919 Blogs
      • Discovering 1919 Blog Grading Rubric
    • Labs
      • Lab: Creating Infographics
      • Lab: Designing Metadata
      • Lab: Social Explorer
      • Lab: Video Game Pitch
    • Mahwah Newspaper Project
      • Metadata: Grading Rubric
    • Mapping Historiography
      • Mapping Historiography Grading Rubric
    • React to Readings
      • React to Readings Grading Rubric
      • Reaction Papers Rubric
  • Class Schedule
    • Past
      • Week 01: Thurs: Jan. 24
      • Week 02: Mon: Jan: 28
      • Week 02: Thurs: Jan. 31
      • Week 03: Mon: Feb 3
      • Week 03: Thurs. Feb 7
      • Week 04: Mon: Feb. 11
      • Week 04: Thurs. Feb. 14
      • Week 05: Mon: Feb. 18
      • Week 05: Thurs: Feb. 21
      • Week 06: Mon. Feb. 25
      • Week 06: Thurs: Feb. 28
      • Week 07: Monday: Mar. 4
      • Week 07: Thurs: Mar. 07
      • Week 08: Mon: March 11
      • Week 08: Thurs: Mar. 14
      • Week 10: Mon. Mar. 25
      • Week 10: Thurs. Mar. 28
      • Week 11: Mon. April 1
      • Week 11: Thurs. April 4
      • Week 12: Monday April 8
      • Week 12: Thurs. Apr. 11
      • Week 13: Monday Apr. 15
      • Week 13: Thurs. April 18
    • Week 14: Monday April 22
    • Week 14: Thurs. April 25
    • Week 15: Thursday May 2
  • Readings
  • Resources
    • 1919 Events
    • Historiography
    • Images and Videos
  • Student Projects

Resources

Professional Development

  • Dian Schons’ Powerpoint presentation

Basecamp

  • Discovering Digital History 2019
  • Basecamp Tutorials

Research

  • Potter Library Worshops -Spring 2019 (PDF)
  • Introduction to Newspapers.com
  • Margot Note, How to Analyze Historical Photographs (2017)
  • Margot Note, How to Prepare for an Archives Visit (2017)
  • Google Image Search tips
  • Google Advanced Book Search
  • Joseph Hindy, 20 Tips to Use Google Search Efficiently Lifehack
  • 6 ‘Secret’ Google Search Tricks for Genealogy That’ll Help You Find Your Ancestors Family History Daily

Visualizations

  • Data Visualization Catalog (describes different types)
  • Wordle (word clouds)
  • Jason Davies Word Cloud Generator (word clouds)
  • Piktochart (Infographics)
  • Canva (Infographics)
  • Vistorian (Network visualizations) Tutorial

Digitizing

  • Maine Memory Network’s Guidelines for Photographing Historical Objects.
  • Stone Angels’ 11 Tips for Taking Pictures in a Cemetery
  • S. Herron, Digital Scholarship Resource Guide (PDF)

Documentaries

  • Washington History’s Creating a History Day Documentary

Oral History and Recordings

  • Smithsonian’s Oral History Interviewing Guide

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