tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73826405670393803282024-03-05T12:27:06.511-08:00Digital HistoryAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200864108764275601noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382640567039380328.post-86509446675102944902015-05-09T15:25:00.002-07:002015-05-09T15:25:37.177-07:00Introducing…Niebuhr's Notes!<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was about to start by saying that I completed my final project for my digital history course, but thinking about it, I'm not sure it will ever be done. I truly hope the site I created will continue to evolve, be added to and become a resource for my future students and colleagues.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I hope you take some time to take a look at <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/mrsniebuhr/" target="_blank">Niebuhr's Notes</a> and let me know what you think!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jessica (a.k.a. Mrs. N.)</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200864108764275601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382640567039380328.post-39197316155840852932015-05-05T13:14:00.002-07:002015-05-05T13:14:43.946-07:00Unit Fifteen: Tools, Tools and Tools, What Exactly Are tools?<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Over the last few weeks I have loved learning about and
getting to try a number of different technology tools I could use in my
classroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For this week’s post I
am taking a look at the scheduling tool <a href="http://doodle.com/" target="_blank">Doodle</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In order to really learn about it I decided to use it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A group of friends (5 couples) had been talking about going
out for dinner together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
exchanged a number of emails back and forth but never seemed to be able to
settle on a date that worked for all of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decided to give Doodle a try.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was so simple to set up the event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Created a name, entered my email and selected
the possible dates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I entered
my friends email address and within minutes we scheduled a date.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So easy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I think this tool would be useful for college students, but
for academic and social uses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Coordinating group projects meeting times, study sessions or other event
dates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are a lot of features
available with the Premium Doodle option, but I found the free version to be
quick and easy and all I needed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another tool I recently used is <a href="http://www.brainshark.com/" target="_blank">Brainshark</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It allows you to create online and
mobile video presentations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used
it for another course to turn a PowerPoint slideshow into a video lecture with
audio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was very easy to use,
allowing for pauses in recording (so you don’t have to get it all right in one
go).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a big step up from a
standard Power Point slideshow and very easy to use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it could be of use to college students as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I posted a link to my final project in the last post.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve since added my timeline, but there
are still more revisions and additions to make before this weekend!</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200864108764275601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382640567039380328.post-48260128164954389702015-05-03T23:01:00.006-07:002015-05-05T13:03:02.486-07:00Unit Fourteen: Big Picture, User Participation Projects and Crowd-Sourcing<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Preserving Digital History</b> – When I started the readings for
this week, I kept thinking about my family and the photos we take.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I come from a family of big
photographers.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Not to suggest we
are a particularly talented group, but we do love to take photos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My father takes photos and has prints made and puts them
into albums. I take photos, post a few on Facebook and on Shutterfly and create
bound photo books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My younger
cousin takes photos almost exclusively on instagram.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What struck me is that as things are now, as our ages go up,
the number of people who view our photos goes down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will that always be the case?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Generations from now, will they still have the capability to
look at Instagram accounts and Facebook or will the albums or boxes discovered
in an attic of my great, great, grandchildren be what people in the future look
to when researching the past?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
we are not mindful of how we are saving our digital artifacts we run the risk
of them never being seen again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>User Participation and Crowd-Sourcing</b> – Beyond Wikipedia, I
was not aware of any “user participation” history sites like the ones we
discussed in this class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love
the idea of being part of bringing history and historic artifacts to thousands
of people around the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
imaging this could be come a favorite pastime activity! </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When searching for a Crowd-Sourcing project website I came across </span><a href="http://helpinghistory.com/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">Helping History</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It’s a work in progress, but has links to tons of sites that you can offer your services to on a variety of topics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I think there are two huge concerns that need to be addressed: 1) with the ease of saving digital artifacts, do we run the risk of preserving "too much"? and 2) with using crowd-sourced information, do you run the rise of preserving incorrect information. Without a few more standards and protocols in place, we are in danger of saving so much information or saving the wrong information, that we are unable to use what has been preserved effectively. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Final Project</b>: Here is a link to my <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/mrsniebuhr/home" target="_blank">final project</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not where I hoped it would be at
this point, but I’ve blocked off some serious time to complete it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve added my DV word cloud project, but
have not yet added my timeline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
feel the section on the Declaration of Independence is pretty solid but I would
appreciate any feedback.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200864108764275601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382640567039380328.post-5480977143035249682015-04-29T20:22:00.001-07:002015-04-29T20:22:32.893-07:00Unit Thirteen: Data Visualization<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Back in <a href="http://digitalhistory218jdn.blogspot.com/2015/03/unit-two-local-digital-history-scene.html" target="_blank">Unit Two</a> I briefly wondered about the amount of information available on the web and how we make sure our students are savvy enough to examine resources carefully and to be sure to know the author, motives, expertise, agenda, etc. It's one thing to be bale to analyze a resource, but there is another side to the amount of information available - how do we comb through all that is out there and how do we not miss anything?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In our readings this week there was a reference to just how many Google search results come up in a simple search. I decided to Google my name (Niebuhr isn't the most common name) and see how many results appear and how deep one would have to dig to find this blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The results: </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Jessica Niebuhr" resulted in "About 138,000 results (0.41 seconds) and this blog was found on page 6. Not too bad, I was actually surprised it came up so quickly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But think about that first number: 138,000 references to "Jessica Niebuhr". There are quite a few of us "Jessica Niebuhrs" out there so if you were looking for a specific one that will take a while. In my search I came across information about a volunteer program I ran at my children's school, a product complaint I made on a company's FaceBook page, White Pages and SuperPages listings, home purchases, my position as membership director of our neighborhood pool and a bunch of stuff that just happens to have a "Jessica" and a "Niebuhr" on the same page. I looked through 30 pages before Google compressed the results. How long would it take me to get through to the end? I never came across the VA Department of Education License "look-up" site - something I would consider important identifying information.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This brief exercise got me thinking - 138,000 possible results for me - someone whose name isn't in the paper, no on is writing books about me, I'm not a public figure…with the glut if information out there, how do we possible weed through it all to find the "good stuff"? And the amount information just keeps growing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As a researcher, t he idea of even tackling a small topic is completely overwhelming. How could I get through it all? What if there was something really good at result 137,999? I don't know if I would ever get there. As a digital historian, it drives home the point of insuring appropriate tags and search markers to insure my information is found.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200864108764275601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382640567039380328.post-16346515312957639712015-04-28T10:16:00.001-07:002015-04-28T10:16:08.442-07:00Data Visualization - Word Clouds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My final project is a Unit
Plan on the American Revolution. I
wanted to create a data visualization (dv) that would be content area related
and easy for my students to understand and use. I will be including a Word Cloud assignment in my Unit Plan
for students to complete, but thought I could create some examples that would
provide content information and serve as a guide for their assignment. I selected the Declaration of
Independence and then decided to add the United States Constitution and the
Bill of Rights as well. These
three documents are known collectively as the Charters of Freedom. I obtained the text for each from the
transcripts available on the National Archives’ <a href="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/" target="_blank">Charters of Freedom</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I used <a href="http://www.tagxedo.com/" target="_blank">Tagxedo</a> to create separate
word clouds for each Charter of Freedom and a fourth cloud including text from
all of the documents. I hope that
they will serve as a quick, easy to read reference for students to discover
important and common themes for the Founding Fathers as they created these
documents.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200864108764275601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382640567039380328.post-45515427484679681612015-04-27T10:42:00.001-07:002015-04-27T10:42:10.537-07:00Unit Twelve: Digital Online Archives<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week we looked at a number of online archival projects including an Omega-Based </span><a href="http://novahistory.ctevans.net/" style="color: #339933; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Northern Virginia Digital History Archive</a>. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I posted 5 exterior photos of the local elementary school, Waynewood Elementary School in Fairfax County Public Schools. I chose the school for a number of reasons (the fact that it is down the street and I'm there daily was certainly a factor) but also because the school will be undergoing extensive renovations, I believe with a starting timeframe of 2015-2016. I thought it would be interesting to see how the school looked and compare it to the remodeled site.</span><div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The process of using the </span><a href="http://novahistory.ctevans.net/" style="color: #339933; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Northern Virginia Digital History Archive</a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> was relatively easy. There is a delay from the time contributions are made until the time the images are posted, understandably, but I would have appreciated the opportunity to review my collection of photos together (to check for consistency etc.) before posting. Also, I was only able to add individual photos and not the photos together. I uploaded them in order of my walk around the building and had planned on adding commentary including some of the proposed changes. I would have also liked a template or sample entry on the contribution page to ensure I was entering information in a for consistent with the existing items on the site. SO far it was a simple process. I'll post an update after/if my photos are accepted and uploaded to the site.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of my favorite digital archive sites is <a href="http://forgotten-ny.com/" target="_blank">Forgotten New York</a>, a program of the Greater Astoria Historical Society. I've never really thought about it objectively - it's strengths and weaknesses, ease of use, etc. I just loved looking at the photos they have collected over time and had no need to use them. The site is sometimes slow and isn't always easy to navigate, but the have photos from all over NYC and the Boroughs. My favorite articles are when they photos old photos next to photos of the same </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">view today. I've discovered that when looking at current photos (or being there in real-life) I don't always notice the architecture of the buildings, but once I see the current view compared with the older view, those details that make the old building so special really stand out. Photos are not always available free for public use, as some are sold to help support the costs of the program. They offer images, books and other items for sale as well as the opportunity to book speakers for your group or organization and tours of selected "forgotten" sites.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My final project is coming along, slower than I would like, but getting there. The biggest challenge is creating my "digital visualization" project (optional - but I chose it thinking I could work it into my final project). I am finding it difficult to find reliable information about the American Revolution that could work for a digital visualization and that would be in line with the 6th grade curriculum. Other than that I have a number of pages that are "works in progress". My time-line is coming along - looking for photos is my current task on that project - and I my lecture script is coming together, I just need to sit down and record it. It will be a busy 12 days!</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200864108764275601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382640567039380328.post-37151326828191987392015-04-19T23:22:00.003-07:002015-04-27T10:03:24.442-07:00Unit Ten: What is Real and Not Real in the Digital and Real Worlds<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I was three I recited
the Pledge of Allegiance for my great uncle. He apparently thought it was just one of the cutest, most
brilliant, most patriotic things he’d ever see because from then on I was showered
with “American” themed gifts. I
received American flags, commemorative coin sets, first issue stamps and (my
personal favorite) a copy of the Declaration of Independence. It was one of the ones made to look
“real”. For the longest time I
thought it was, and thought how special it was that I got to have my very own
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eventually I learned it was simply
a reproduction, but I remembered how I felt holding it, believing it was real,
imagining what life was like when it was first written. Years later, when I
began teaching U.S. History, I picked up similar copies of the U.S.
Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Gettysburg address, along with
reproductions of maps and money for use in my class. Every time I bring them out my students ask me if they are
“real”. I always explain to them the documents they are holding aren’t
original, but they are real. The
words were written, those men signed their names to it, and real people lived
it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can’t bring the original Declaration of Independence to my students, but
I can still bring them the real story, meaning, message behind it. Of course there
is something to be said for being able to hold a piece of history in your hands
- to hold it, smell it, feel its weight - but the truth is most of us will
never have that opportunity. That
is why the advances in digital history are so amazing. Students, scholars, researchers and
historians who would never have had the opportunity to travel the world to
archeological sites and museums, to hold a copy of the Declaration of
Independence or a vase from the Ming Dynasty, can still (admittedly to a lesser
degree) experience, study and wonder at these treasures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course it’s not the
same thing as witnessing or holding an original, but they are still real
experiences with real things.
Every time I travel and read on my Kindle, someone mentions to me how
much they love the feel of a “real” book in their hands too much and could
never read on a e-reader or tablet.
I love picking up an old, favorite book to read - the smell of the
pages, the crinkle of the book jacket, the feel of it in my hands - there is
nothing like it…but my love for reading is greater than my love for holding a
book. There are countless stories,
lessons, tears, and laughs I would miss if I limited my reading to only books I
could physically hold! I’ll take a
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200864108764275601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382640567039380328.post-4042198351491574362015-04-14T16:01:00.003-07:002015-04-14T21:43:37.476-07:00Unit Nine: The Information Age<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
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few weeks I've been learning about blogging, the digital web, resources available,
what makes a good site and digitizing materials…Now to put it all into
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">For my final project in my
Introduction to Digital History course I will use the <a href="http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/standards_docs/history_socialscience/index.shtml"><span style="color: #420178;">Curriculum Framework</span></a> produced by the
Commonwealth of Virginia’s Board of Education as a guide to create a
digital unit plan. Using the Curriculum Framework will insure that
all the required information is covered. I will then go back and
supplement the plan with activities, lessons and assessments that would
(hopefully) enhance each unit. When I return to the classroom I hope to
adopt a flipped classroom model, having my students watch/listen/read/prepare
at home for more in-depth and engaging activities and assignments in class.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">The digital unit will contain
all the information my students will need including essential questions and
objectives for the unit as well as background information (key individuals,
events and vocabulary words), graphic organizers for note taking, video
lectures, homework assignments, writing assignments, maps, timelines and review
activities. In the past all of the items were printed and
photocopied into multi-page packets and distributed to students at the
beginning of each unit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unit will have a home here on my Digital History Blog. It will included a
timeline of important dates I will be creating with <a href="http://www.timetoast.com/"><span style="color: #420178;">Timetoast</span></a>,
an online lecture created with either <a href="https://www.brainshark.com/"><span style="color: #420178;">Brainshark</span></a> or <a href="https://prezi.com/"><span style="color: #420178;">Prezi</span></a> and a data visualization graph (perhaps
of population or support for Independence) using <span style="color: #420178;"><a href="http://www-969.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/">Many Eyes</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">There are
countless digital resources available on the topic of the American Revolution. I
imagine I will be using a variety of resources including, but not limited to
the <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html"><span style="color: #420178;">American Memory Historical Collections</span></a> from
the Library of Congress and the <a href="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration.html"><span style="color: #420178;">Charters of Freedom Collection</span></a> from the National
Archives.</span><br />
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While I do not anticipate actively looking for
viewers or an audience for my project, it will be available to
the public. I will certainly share with my team and grade level
co-workers and if appropriate, with other teachers in my district who might
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200864108764275601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382640567039380328.post-69642508443461587442015-04-12T22:57:00.002-07:002015-04-12T22:57:38.414-07:00Unit Eight: Digitizing and Sourcing Images and Text (and Video)<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Well, we've reached the halfway point for my Introduction to Digital History course and this week we're focusing on the sources of digital materials. Throughout the course we've discussed digital databases, sites where someone else has already digitized the materials for us and saved them in a neat, searchable package.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For my final project I am hoping to create a usable, digital resource for use in my classroom, in particular for a unit on the Declaration of Independence/Revolutionary War. There are countless digital resources available that I might be able to use - YouTube videos created by other teachers in my district that cover the topic, digitized copies of historic documents, audio recordings of actors reading narratives from the time, dramatic History Channel reenactments…I'm at no loss for materials.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But what happens when the materials we are looking for aren't readily available for a quick download? While I'm not planning on discovering a long-lost, hand-written letter from Thomas Jefferson in my back yard, there are resources that I've used in my classroom before, from various books and other resources, that I would like to incorporate into my project. As demonstrated in some of our assignments for this course, documents may be scanned, pieced together and saved for use in digital projects and made available to other researchers or historians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The task sounds daunting - digitizing historic documents or creating digital materials? I have a scanner and some basic computer and editing skills, but "digitizing and sourcing images and text"? That I'm not so sure about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But then I really thought about it. We digitize and source images and text all the time, but usually for our own personal use, to document our personal histories. My children are constantly creating, and I don't have the storage space to save even a fraction of their work. I do, however scan or take digital photos of their favorite drawings, artwork and other creations and put them in a photo book. My father and I compiled years of family recipes into a family cookbook, including scans of original hand-written recipes and photos of celebrations when we've shared them. Years ago a relative of my mother typed up a family tree (in the form of an inch-thick packet of photocopies) and mailed copies to everyone - wouldn't it be great to get all of that information in one place on-line and make it available to family members to record, births, marriages and deaths for everyone in our extended family to know about?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So the approach I going to take, as I'm facing the task of having to "</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">digitize and source images and text" for a professional and academic project, is to look at my everyday life - my Facebook-ing, Instagram-ing, Shutterfly-ing, iPhoto-ing ways may just serve me well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Extras: </b>My professor from another course shared this resource, <a href="http://www.knowyourcopyrights.org/bm~doc/kycrbrochurebw.pdf" target="_blank">Know Your Copy Rights</a>, published by the Association of Research Libraries. It is specifically written for faculty
and teaching assistants in higher education, but contains a lot of copyright
information that could be helpful to digital historians. It ties into my post from last week on <a href="http://digitalhistory218jdn.blogspot.com/2015/04/unit-seven-copyright-and-web.html" target="_blank">Copyright and the Web</a>.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200864108764275601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382640567039380328.post-19385151972383350022015-04-09T02:02:00.001-07:002015-04-09T02:02:36.575-07:00Unit Seven: Copyright and the Web<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My eyes are still crossed from this unit's readings
about copyrights and the web. I was (still am) completely overwhelmed
with the amount of information and the minutia of details about using
copyrighted materials, copyrighting your own materials, Fair Use – the rules, the many exceptions….</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As a student and a teacher before Web 2.0, I have primarily been concerned with not plagiarizing the work of another - insuring my sources are well documented and cited in written form. I had not given much thought to copyright violations, or worrying about copyrighting my own materials. As Rosenzweig and Cohen, 2005 note, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">At this time I see my digital history focus to be "local and personal". </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I'm not looking to make money from this blog and (most likely) not from any other history related blog or web-presence I may develop. I foresee the resources I create and compile being used by my students for use in my class. As time goes on and I spend more time and effort creating new resources, I'm sure that will change.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Bucknell University Professsor Eric Faden's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo" target="_blank">humorous take on copyright principles</a> helped clear a few things up. I also searched beyond the assigned readings and found answers from <a href="http://guides.library.upenn.edu/copyright" target="_blank">Library at U Penn</a>. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">For now I'm aiming to understand the basics:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Copyright </b>are the legal rights the author or creator of a work has over how that work is reproduced. Generally speaking for works created after 1978 they until the end of the creator's life plus 70 years. There are different restrictions and requirements for works created before 1978, anonymous works, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Works in the <b>Public Domain</b> are free for anyone to use.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Fair Use</b> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">is not a right but a legal, defensible position. You </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">can "borrow" a small amount of copyrighted material to, for example, teach a lesson, but it is dependent on:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">the amount of the originally work used</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/" target="_blank">Teachers Pay Teachers</a> is an "open marketplace where educators buy, sell and share original teaching resources." This resource did not exist when I was last teaching, but I have purchased and downloaded a number of materials for use by my children. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I had never looked into the ethics or legality of the site. TpT repeatedly makes it clear that the information on the site is not a substitute for legal advice, but they do have a comprehensive </span><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Copyright-FAQ" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank">Copyright FAQ</a>. <span style="font-family: Arial;">It provides substantial information regarding appropriate use of materials found on the site and those created by teachers in their own classrooms. After reading their FAQ, as well as their "About Us" section, I believe their intention is to be an ethical site, providing information regarding legal use of these educational materials.</span></div>
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was working on an assignment for another class about using audio and video in
the classroom and I thought about that frequently cited idea about how much we
remember/learn boy listening, seeing, doing, teaching, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went looking on-line for the quote
and came across the site: <a href="http://www.willatworklearning.com/2015/01/mythical-retention-data-the-corrupted-cone.html" target="_blank">Will At Work Learning</a> by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/willthalheimer" target="_blank">Will Thalheimer, PhD.</a> <span style="color: #262626;"> Doctor Thalheimer holds a </span><span style="color: #343639;">PhD, Human Learning and Cognition from Columbia University, a MBA, MIS and Instructional Design from Drexel University and a BA, Psychology from Pennsylvania State University. </span></span></div>
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journal, <i>Educational Technology</i>, about the misinformation given in what
they’ve labeled (1) the mythical retention chart and (2) the corruption of Dale’s
Cone of Experience. What caught my eye in Thalheimer’s post were two graphics
and the following passage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
thought it tied in to what we have been talking about this term including the
importance of understanding where our sources come from and copyright (copying)
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><i>I include these two examples to
make two points. First, note how one person clearly stole from the other one.
Second, note how sloppy these fabricators are. They include a Confucius quote
that directly contradicts what the numbers say. On the left side of the
visuals, Confucius is purported to say that hearing is better than seeing,
while the numbers on the right of the visuals say that seeing is better than
hearing. And, by the way, Confucius did not actually say what he is being
alleged to have said! What seems clear from looking at these and other examples
is that people don’t do their due diligence—their ends seems to justify their
means—and they are damn sloppy, suggesting that they don’t think their
audiences will examine their arguments closely. </i>(Thalheimer, 2015)</span></blockquote>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200864108764275601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382640567039380328.post-56873982387587780072015-04-01T21:37:00.001-07:002015-04-01T21:37:22.063-07:00Unit Five: Building a Web Culture (Style Design Standards and HTML 5)<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Style or substance? After last week's look at a number of digital history projects we discussed how the level of sophistication of a site and the timeliness of the material on a given site are not necessarily related. Some of the sites we looked at (the Library of Congress' <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html" target="_blank">American Memory</a> site, for example) are not the most sophisticated, but are actually the most up-to-date. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week, we are going deeper in to the style of a site and how the style may impact, for better or worse, a site's substance.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When looking back and reexamining a few of the sites from last week, I played close attention to the relationship between style and substance. Take the site for the <a href="http://www.learn.columbia.edu/Mcahweb/index-frame.html" target="_blank">Amiens Cathedral Project</a> from last week. It is beautiful - photo after stunning photo of the cathedral, but there is no way to search. If I'm an architecture student looking for examples of a particular style of archway, I can't simply type in my search, you just have to click through the different sections. Unfortunately, clicking on some links lead you to pages with no way to return to the home page without hitting the "back" button. From the navigation bar I clicked "sculptural program" and I was sent to the screen below:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The only way for me to get back to another section of the site is to repeatedly click the back button (or use the drop-down feature on the back button) to get to a page with a navigational menu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't articulate it at the time, but thinking about my reaction to some of the sites we examined last week, I was pretty hard on them. I made snap decisions based on a quick look at each home page and maybe a few clicks in, without looking deeper into the content and how the style impacted my use of the content. I need to take that into consideration when creating my own site for my final project. Right now I'm planning on creating a site specifically for my students. I'm not looking to attract users from various search engines, looking to drive traffic and usage to my site - I know my target audience will reach and use my pages. Who is using my site, and how they are getting there could impact my design. If I am hoping people will stop on my page after a quick google search, my style and look of my site might be more important than if I am creating a site for a "captive" audience. That will impact the sort of web presence I might need.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200864108764275601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382640567039380328.post-17397641787878040332015-03-28T21:41:00.000-07:002015-03-30T19:28:55.202-07:00Unit Four: The Evolution of the Digital Web<div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week we are examining the evolution of the digital web and the development of digital history projects. The list below is a sampling of various digital history sites that have been created over the last 20 or so years. </span></div>
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<li><a href="http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/"><span style="color: blue;">The Valley of the Shadow</span></a> (1993)</li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.rc.umd.edu/"><span style="color: blue;">Romantic Circles</span></a> </span>(1994)</li>
<li><a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html"><span style="color: blue;">American Memory</span></a> (1994)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.emilydickinson.org/"><span style="color: blue;">Dickinson Electronic Archive</span></a> (1994, new incarnation - 2013)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.learn.columbia.edu/Mcahweb/index-frame.html"><span style="color: blue;">Amiens Cathedral Project</span></a> (1996)</li>
<li><a href="http://outtacontext.com/"><span style="color: blue;">Life Outtacontext</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span>(2001, Jeff Gates)</li>
<li><a href="http://hawthorneinsalem.org/Introduction.html"><span style="color: blue;">Hawthorne in Salem</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span>(2002)</li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.hurricanearchive.org/"><span style="color: blue;">Hurricane Digital Memory Bank</span></a> </span>(2005)</li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://eyelevel.si.edu/">Eye Level</a> </span>(2005, Gates) </li>
<li><a href="http://www.oyez.org/">Oyez</a><span style="color: blue;"> </span>(2005)</li>
<li><a href="http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Karnak">Digital Karnak</a> (2008)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.april16archive.org/"><span style="color: blue;">The April 16 Archive</span></a> (2007 - new link for <a href="http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/prevail/" target="_blank">Virginia Tech April 16, 2007 Archives</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/"><span style="color: blue;">The Avalon Project</span></a> (2008)</li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://inourpath.com/about.html">In Our Path</a> </span>(2008, Gates)</li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.persepolis3d.com/">Persepolis: A Virtual Reconstruction</a> </span>(No information available. Message: "Next updated to be announced")</li>
<li><a href="http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/#/fr/00.xml"><span style="color: blue;">Lascaux</span></a> (Link not functioning properly.)</li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After looking at each of the links and placing them in the order in which they were created, we were to comment on the level of sophistication and how the forms of the digital projects have changed. It occurred to me that while the creation date was relevant and often reflected in the style and sophistication of the site, the "last updated" date might have significance as well.</span></div>
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<li><a href="http://www.learn.columbia.edu/Mcahweb/index-frame.html"><span style="color: blue;">Amiens Cathedral Project</span></a> (1996)</li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/">The Valley of the Shadow</a> </span>(2007)</li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Karnak">Digital Karnak</a> </span>(2008)</li>
<li><a href="http://inourpath.com/about.html"><span style="color: blue;">In Our Path</span></a> (2009, Jeff Gates)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.hurricanearchive.org/"><span style="color: blue;">Hurricane Digital Memory Bank</span></a> (2012)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.emilydickinson.org/"><span style="color: blue;">Dickinson Electronic Archive</span></a> (2014)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.april16archive.org/"><span style="color: blue;">The April 16 Archive</span></a> (2014 - new link for <a href="http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/prevail/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Virginia Tech April 16, 2007 Archives</span></a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html"><span style="color: blue;">American Memory</span></a> (2015)</li>
<li><a href="http://eyelevel.si.edu/"><span style="color: blue;">Eye Level</span></a> (2015, Gates) </li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://hawthorneinsalem.org/Introduction.html">Hawthorne in Salem</a> </span>(2015)</li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://outtacontext.com/">Life Outtacontext</a> </span>(2015, Gates)</li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.oyez.org/">Oyez</a> </span>(2015)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.rc.umd.edu/"><span style="color: blue;">Romantic Circles</span></a> (2015)</li>
<li><a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/"><span style="color: blue;">The Avalon Project</span></a> (No date readily available)</li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.persepolis3d.com/">Persepolis: A Virtual Reconstruction</a> </span>(No information available. Message: "Next updated to be announced")</li>
<li><a href="http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/#/fr/00.xml"><span style="color: blue;">Lascaux</span></a> (Link not functioning properly.)</li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Generally speaking, the later a site was created, the more sophisticated is the design. Eye Level, created in 2005 is far more sophisticated than The Avalon Project which was created in 2008. This is most likely due to the regular updates to the Eye Level site. This is often the case with sites that are updated regularly. There are of course exceptions to these generalities. The Hawthorne in Salem site was updated just this month, but its style and layout are more in line with its 2002 creation date. The same may be said for the American Memory site.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200864108764275601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382640567039380328.post-62975622448520209632015-03-25T21:31:00.000-07:002015-03-25T21:32:29.785-07:00Unit Three: The Multi-Talented Blog<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Multi-Talented Blog?</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Not feeling very talented with this
particular blog.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Being on the
other side of the computer screen has given me a new perspective and definitely
a new respect for those who are regularly producing content and designing
sites.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I have a long way to go!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This week in Intro to
Digital History we are looking at blogs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have friends who blog regularly – they’re doing everything from
sharing recipes, finding humor in everyday life and chronicling their days of
sobriety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I subscribe to a number
of blogs and each day I’m looking through a few to see what’s new.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The “talented” part we’re
talking about this week isn’t referring to my talents as blogger (thank
goodness) but rather to the technology of the blog itself. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A blog can be a device for interactivity
among readers and user, the posts can simply be a method of content delivery or
it can be some combination of the two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When looking for examples of blogs, I selected the Civil War (a topic
covered in middle school U.S. History and one popular enough among both
professional and amateur historians alike to elicit a lot of options) and started
searching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sheer number of
results (59,300,000 results from the search “civil war blogs top ten”) raises
the recurring theme of Internet searches – “where to even begin?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once we start, weeding through the
results, how do we know if a particular site is any good?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who is the author?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do they have any authority on the
topic?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I read a lot of education
blogs, looking for ideas and tips for my classroom, but in most cases I’m just
brainstorming and not looking for specific information to share with my
students.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I approached this search as
if I was looking for resources to supplement my Civil War unit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first site listed in the results
was The <a href="http://www.civilwar.org/" target="_blank">Civil War Trust</a>,
a large, nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of Civil War
battlegrounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The CWT does not host
it’s own blog, but keeps a listing of Civil War <a href="http://www.civilwar.org/civilwarblogs/" target="_blank">blogs</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the blogs listed on this
site were merely tools for content delivery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some were outdated and incomplete while for others it was impossible
to determine who and what the sources of material were. Some were online
journals or musings of National Park Service volunteers and employees (not
representing the views of the NPS itself) but providing a unique perspective of
someone who is clearly passionate about the Civil War, but who also has a close
more “official” connection to established historic sites and information. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">At only a quick glance, I particularly
enjoyed </span><a href="http://walkingthewestwoods.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank">Walking in the West Woods</a><span style="font-family: Arial;"> hosted by Jim Buchanan, a volunteer at Antietam National Battlefield Park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My favorite of the blogs
recommended was <a href="http://www.teachthecivilwar.com/blog/" target="_blank">Teaching the Civil War with Technology</a> by Pennsylvania </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">teacher, Jim Beeghley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He recently completed is doctorate of education in
instructional technology from Duquesne University and is an adjunct professor
in the Graduate Education department for Waynesburg University.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">presented
on numerous topics including technology planning, copyright, network security,
technology audits, and most rec</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">ently uses of technology to teach the Civil War.
His blog included entries on </span><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Using Google Earth to Tour the Lincoln Assassination, how to
colorize Civil War photos and introductions to historic newspaper archives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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two blogs I listed above, the hosts provide clear information as to who they
are, what their credentials are, and the purpose of the blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Understanding who is providing the
material on the blog allows me as a teacher to determine how to use the
material in class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When looking
for factual information and lesson planning assistance, </span><span style="color: #535353; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Beeghley’s
site provides a multitude of sited and verifiable resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Buchanan’s site provides factual information,
but of even more interest to me, the personal anecdotal stories from the
Battlefield Park that a traditional text is not going to provide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both could have a place in my
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200864108764275601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382640567039380328.post-40256865448687322372015-03-22T23:32:00.001-07:002015-03-22T23:32:06.085-07:00Unit Two: The Local Digital History Scene<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Rosenweig:</b> As educators we are constantly bombarded with suggestions, requests and requirements to introduce more technology into our classrooms. School boards expend significant funds for more equipment and training, parents want to ensure their children are keeping up with technology applications and students want the fun associated with it all. To meet the needs of our 21st century learners, teachers need to step out of their comfort zones and embrace technology in the classroom, but with an understanding that it has moved far beyond TV/VCR carts and overhead projectors. We need to not only bring the technology in, but give our students to the tools to safely and effectively use it. As a history and social studies teacher, that includes ensuring my students cannot only locate sources on-line, but that they are thoughtful critics of the information they find.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rosenweig and Cohen in their on-line text <i><a href="http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/">Digital History</a>: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving and Presenting the Past on the Web</i>, refer to a</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> number of historians who warned of the </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">dangers of new media and that it "posed a threat to the search for wisdom and depth". I'm not sure I would take it that far, but they have a point. There is just so much information out there - where to even begin? For students hopping on-line and looking to answer a question or work on a paper, the answer is often "whatever came up fasted and first." </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As a teacher, it is my responsibility to ensure my students develop the skills and strategies to weigh through the resources the find to discover w</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ho is writing, why are they writing it, what is their background, what is their agenda?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Final Project: </b>For the final project in this course I am considering creating a content site aligned with one of the units/topics in a middle school <a href="http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/standards_docs/history_socialscience/next_version/stds_ushistory_to1865.pdf">United States History to 1865</a> course.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Online Reading:</b> As <i>easy</i> as it is to </span>enter a few words into a search engine to learn more about a topic or to instantly download a book onto an e-reader or tablet, it's not that <i>simple</i>. The formats on which we read and the sources we pull that information from are impacting out understanding, retention, reading speed, vision health…We need to be cognizant of what we're reading, how we're reading it and who wrote it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Extras: </b>I found an <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reading-paper-screens/">article</a>, <i>The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens</i>, </span><span style="background-color: white;">on the Scientific American site. It was published not long after </span><a href="http://blogs.nvcc.edu/lohumanities/2013/01/22/online-v-paper-reading-comprehension/" style="background-color: white;">your blog post</a><span style="background-color: white;"> from 2013 on Online v Paper Reading Comprehension and mentions many of the same conclusions you reached. It also references a study by <a href="http://www.uis.no/om-uis/kontakt-oss/finn-ansatt/mangen-anne-article74016-11198.html">Anne Mangen</a> of the University of Stavanger - Norway. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Professor Mangen is often cited in articles about digital reading. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Further searches for her work came up with a number of recent papers, however for most of them only the abstracts were readily available. Full versions of the </span>papers were available through various gated portals and usually for a fee.</span></div>
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