Welcome to the website for HIS5595 Digital History for graduate students at Appalachian State University. This page an overview of the goals of the course and links to weekly discussion materials.
Important note: this now serves as an archive for a former version of this class. Most of the pages have been taken off of public view for future revision. I’m leaving the archived view, including this page of weekly themes, as a sample
In this class, we will discuss a variety of digital technologies in the service of doing history. We will talk about what digital history is as well as the differences between digital history and the broader digital humanities. Further, we will investigate intersections between digital history and public history. Students will learn skills and the language to discuss technology.
One of the main goals in the course is for students to overcome the fears and intimidation that many of us have concerning tech. We will practice with specifi programs and each student will create their own wordpress site with a professional portfolio. We will also be working with a community partner on a project useful to them. More about the project in another post!
Most weeks will cover two themes or a theme and an in class workshop.
(eta) Each week had readings and prep work for the meeting. Course themes included:
- Computer history & the Perils and promises of digital history
- What is public history? digital history? & Evaluating digital history projects
- Personal digital strategy & Domain set up with wordpress installation
- Organizational digital strategy
- Fake news & Omeka installation
- Digital archives & Zotero workshop
- Maps & Crowdsourcing
- Visualization and timelines & Copyright and ethics
- Big data
- Digital history and public history
