One of the articles I read was “Strange Facts in the History Classroom: Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Wiki(pedia)” by Christopher Miller. Wikipedia has been a hot topic in every academic department since it became a popular resource. I think Miller’s approach to the subject is the most even keeled [...]
This has been a hectic week and I’ve had a lot going on and have been busy with lots of stuff so I wanted to do a bit of an overview just so I can get it all down on digital paper.
Instead of keeping our blog on umwblogs our group decided to do a separate [...]
Haven’t been to good at keeping on top of blogging over here. But my group mates have been doing a good job of talking about how the Historical Markers project is going.
We are being pretty ambitious with getting the main research done right away, which I think will help motivate us to get stuff done [...]
There were a lot of interesting tools on the ehub site, but I had trouble finding something I thought might be useful for our project.
Amy pointed out an interesting site that could be useful for our project at mapwing.com. That would let us create a virtual tour.
In class we talked about SIMILE, I definitely am [...]
In response to the post, for Thursday I’d like to take a closer look at Omeka and possibly mash-up technology.
I’ve been playing around with Omeka a little bit and I have had a problem with a file size and I can’t seem to find file size limits indicated on the site, if anyone knows kindly [...]
I’ve seen RSS used in lots of ways to pull information from all sorts of areas and aggregating it in multiple ways. I recently worked on a course website for an Econ 488 class that when a student tags their post with a certain category (pre-determined by the prof) that it will get pulled to [...]
In the article McClurken posted there are some points I agree with and disagree with (and not just because I believe the Chronicle doesn’t know anything about technology). Like Kelly said, students are digitally fluent in some ways. I’d say in general that students of my generation see the internet and computers as a source [...]
Well my name is Shannon and I am sophomore. As you may probably have guessed I am familiar with a fair amount of the tools we will be learning in class, but I’m really not as geeky as that makes it seem. I didn’t know any of this stuff until the fall of ‘06 when [...]
If I was feeling slightly more dorky I would have probably tried to create an OPML file, but I am inherently lazy. So this isn’t the most helpful thing I could possibly do but I thought, hey why not? I compiled a list of everyone’s blog feed along with comment feeds too. I think everyone’s [...]
I’ll be working on the Historical Markers Project this semester and I’ve been taking a look around the Historical Markers site that our group will be working off and I counted 62 markers for the Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, and Stafford area. It seems like quite a bit, but compared to the 2,200 that apparently exist Virginia [...]