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Welcome to HI 112-07

This is the blog for Dr. Tona Hangen’s section of HI 112, Spring 2010. The course content is posted here as well as on Blackboard. Please bookmark this blog’s web address or add it to your RSS feed (such as Google Reader or Bloglines). If you don’t know what an RSS feed is, here’s a quick overview. There is also a Google calendar in the sidebar, with all of the course due dates already on it. If you use Google calendar to organize yourself, you can add this one to your own by clicking on the [+ Google calendar] button.

Also, as you look over the website, you’ll notice tiny boxes next to some of the links; if you hover over those icons, you’ll see a preview of the link’s destination. Those are called “Snapshots” and they let you know where you will be headed if you click on that link.

Why all the technological bells and whistles? For a couple of reasons. First, some of the course readings and materials are from online sources, and I want you to become familiar with how to navigate, search, use, and cite digital history resources. Second, it provides an open-source platform for course materials in case Blackboard or the campus server ever goes down (which occasionally happens), making our course materials available from any internet-enabled computer. Third, it models how professional historians and scholars are working in the real world: we Twitter, we network online, we conduct research over computer connections, we blog, we write software, we digitize historical sources, and we invent new ways to take advantage of technology in the study of the past.

Please note: I also taught this course in the Fall of 2009, and I’ve left the old posts up for the benefit of my former students. Any post from between September and December 2009, or that starts with “Fall 09” or which is tagged “Fall 2009” doesn’t apply to you, and you can just ignore them.

Posted in Cyberhistory, Spring 2010.