History 9808 2008-09 01. Introduction

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

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

Carr, Nicholas. “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains,” The Atlantic (Jul/Aug 2008).

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.

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

Kaufman, Scott Eric. “An Enthusiast's View of Academic Blogs,” Inside Higher Ed (1 Nov 2007).

Kotsko, Adam “A Skeptic's Take on Academic Blogs,” Inside Higher Ed (1 Nov 2007).

Kugelmass, Joseph. “Academic Blogging Revisited,” The Valve (1 Nov 2007).

Pepperell, N. “'Mainstreaming' Academic Blogging,” RoughTheory.org (30 Oct 2007).

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).

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

If you haven't already, go to Blogger.com and sign up for a blog under your own name. E-mail the name and URL of your blog to me and to your classmates.

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. If you'd rather use a different feed reader, that's fine, as long as you are using one.