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Third Piece of the Puzzle
My intended audience would be upper-level History, English, or Film Studies undergraduates at a university. I chose this audience because they should be knowledgeable about History/English/Film to be able to analyze the sources carefully. Also I want for everyone in that audience to give feedback because maybe they can offer insight into the activities that I cannot.They should be able to form well-formed arguments and conclusions and be able to use technology of some sort to do their final project.
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Second Piece of the Puzzle
Two questions that I need to answer are: How will digital media and/or digital tools be important to teaching my target audience one of the essential lessons I’ll be focusing on in my project? The digital tools and media will be important to my final project because I need to have the ability to show videos and play audio recordings on it. I also need a view where my audience can create their artifact in piecemeal fashion and still save their work as they go along. I want my audience to be able to respond or react to the videos or other content that I add in a way that…
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The History of History Teaching
We had to choose to answer one of the three questions listed here: What elements of historical thinking have remained at the heart of history teaching over the decades? How have history teachers responded to technological change in the 20th and 21st centuries? How have external expectations constrained teaching and learning in history, and how might the digital turn disrupt those constraints? The one that I wish to answer is the third one (in bold above.) The external expectations that been placed on historical learning and teaching have hindered students in many ways. The SATs or SOLs or AP tests or any of the standardized tests have structured the historical…
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First Piece of the Puzzle
Some initial questions that I want to address in my final project (I may change these questions a bit later once I figure out my project or get more clarification on what/how it might look like.): Why did you choose the historical topic/question and why? What sources did you find to back up your argument?This question will help me understand why they chose the topic that they did and/or how they reached those historical conclusions about my topic. If the amount and availability of resources wasn’t an issue, what topic would you wish to explore more after going through my exhibit?To get an understanding of what they like so that…
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Thinking About Historical Thinking
The three questions that I hope to ask and then answer fully as the semester continues are: What you already know about this particular part in history? This question will be answered by my audience. What are you excited to learn more about? Anything that I can do to help you with that? This question will be answered by my audience. I still hope to gain some insight and various opinions as to what I can do to help. What are some of the ways that best help you learn new material?This question will help me understand how I could frame some of my content and/or questions to help my…
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Introduction to HIST 689
Hello, My name is Grace May and this is my third class within the Digital Public Humanities certificate at George Mason University. I’ve learned so far about how to build a website in Omeka and how to do a textual analysis on a historical subject using Voyant. What I hope to learn from this class is to perhaps not only learn history but also how to teach it and how to present it in a consumable format. This course is looking at it through the digital realm so I will want to learn how to present it through that than some of the more traditional methods. I hope to take…
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Final Reflection
This class was a learning experience for me to make sure that I chose a topic that I was interested in and I could complete the technical requirements as well. I had some wins and losses in terms of the final project. I had issues with getting the reCAPTCHA working, trying to figure out which plugins to use, and trying to get my website to not crash with every click. What I learned was to use a different version of reCAPTCHA, use only the plugins that are necessary, and don’t download too many plugins otherwise it will crash your website. The wins I achieved was finally finding Public Domain sources…
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Final Progress Update #4
The challenges I’ve been facing over the past four weeks was finding sources that I was able to use. I believe that this topic has been widely researched so trying to find sources shouldn’t have been that difficult. I might have been making a mountain out of a molehill. I struggled to find sources and to make sure that they were in the Public Domain. I think that I was so worried about finding free and open sources, that yes is an important issue, but it became a blocking factor in my research. It made me question as to whether this was the right historical topic for me and whether…
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Exploring Your Landscape with Digital Public History
I used the website Clio for this activity. I searched for my hometown and found entries about various people and places that I wouldn’t have known about if I didn’t search this website. It was a great experience to see some of the achievements that my local people did in their lives and where their story connects to a local building. This website uses Google Maps and Google Earth to find the place that you searched for an also to see if in present day. There is also description about the person/place and any interviews or other related to that topic available on Youtube video and any transcripts. This website…
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Annotating Oral History
https://ohms.uky.edu/preview/?id=60661