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| Clio in the 21st century |
Cathy Moran Hajo
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Fall 2015 Tues. 4:55-7:35 pm Room 607 of King Juan Carlos Center (53 Washington Sq. South)
Office hours: Tuesdays 4:00-4:45, or by arrangement (location TBA)
201-684-7741
Historians who work with the public have a particular need to be comfortable with digital tools. The course offers students a basic grounding in the technological skills needed to conduct online historical research and to present the results of their research online. It also introduces students to issues in digital history such as copyright, intellectual property, text encoding, information abundance, and how the Web changes the relationship between historians and their audience.
Aims:
- Get practical experience digitizing historical material for preservation and access
- Learn research and organization skills appropriate and necessary for conducting research in the digital age
- Learn to write the results of historical research for a general audience
- Build digital maps and visualizations
- Help build a digital archive around the theme of Greenwich Village history
- Design, write and create a digital exhibit
Software
In this class we will use:
- Wikidot wiki software
- WordPress blogging software
- Omeka content management platform
- Evernote note management platform
- Oxygen XML editor
- Choice of: Timetoast, Timeline JS, myHistro, Dipity.com, or Google maps timeline and mapping platforms.
- Google shared documents
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