History 513 2007-08 01. Introduction

12 Sep 2007

A brief introduction to the course and to the practice of reflective blogging followed by a Q&A session. Bottom line: don't panic.

Can Blogging Derail Your Career? Chronicle of Higher Education (28 Jul 2006).

Ahmed, Manan. The Polyglot Manifesto I and The Polyglot Manifesto II Chapati Mystery (16-17 May 2006).

Cohen, Daniel J. Professors, Start Your Blogs dancohen.org (21 Aug 2006).

Cohen, Daniel J. and Roy Rosenzweig. Introduction: Promises and Perils of Digital History Digital History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2005.

Glenn, David. Scholars Who Blog The Chronicle of Higher Education (6 Jun 2003).

Greenberg, Josh. On Leaving an Academic Blog Fallow Epistemographer (1 Sep 2006).

Thomas, William G., II. Computing and the Historical Imagination in A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.

Turkel, William J. Teaching Young Historians to Search, Spider and Scrape Digital History Hacks (26 Dec 2005).

Turkel, William J. Doing Digital History Digital History Hacks (7 Feb 2006).

Turkel, William J. Methodology for the Infinite Archive Digital History Hacks (5 Apr 2006).

Wesch, Mike. Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us YouTube (31 Jan 2007).

Hockey, Susan. The History of Humanities Computing in A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.

N.B. In general, the exercises will probably be easier to complete after class than before.

Easy. Sign up for an account at Bloglines and add all of the blogs of your classmates. You can find links to their blogs on the blogroll for this course, and a nice tutorial for using Bloglines here.