Tag: Digital History
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Fun with Hansard
Francis Bernard Beamish, of the Cork brewing family, served from time to time as MP for Cork in the mid-1800s, and when I was doing my research masters on the history of Beamish & Crawford, I dug his contributions out of the printed volumes of the House of Commons Debates. He didn’t have a lot…
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A Broader Digital Humanities?
I chanced across an discussion last night on twitter which aligns with a problem I have been considering – how can the digital humanities include social sciences and science, if at all?  This relates to the question of creating an undergraduate curriculum of some sort in Digital Humanities which would be truly interdisciplinary, that would work for…
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Theory=Model=Game
Neil Ferguson‘s mis-adventures in gaming are highlighted on Richard Mehlinger’s blog on HASTAC in a a post which reinforces the dangers of non-gamers getting swept up by the gee-whiz of digital games. I’ve always been wary of digital games for teaching, which is why I’ve always used old fashion non-digital game play and design in my history…
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Digital History Class
As this term moves on, my Digital History students are (mostly) making progress on their blogs. For the course, an MA option, I decided that the assessment would be based on 10-12 blog postings showing the use of digital tools for history, and discussing readings in the area. We did all of the practical sessions…
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Blogging as a Personal Learning Environment
I’m making my Digital History students (Hi6018) create and use a blog as the anchor for their assessment portfolio in the the course, and I was hunting around for other courses using blogs, but cannot find as many as I used to be able to see. Bill Turkel’s class at UWO are doing it, and…
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Facebookedu?
Are elements of those silly Facebook quizzes and games potentially useful for teaching, at some level? I tend to ignore them, but a comment just now started me thinking about the possibilties. Sam, one of my students, took “What mode of production are are you?” and came out as Feudalism (which some people would think…
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Outlining V Storyboarding
I’ve always been an outliner, and a mindmapper, and never been happy storyboarding. In trying to move up from Powerpoint/OpenOffice Impress to flash based tools like Captivate for presentations, I’m finding the storyboard way of developing materials frustrating – I can’t easily move elements of my narrative from one slide to another the way I…
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Quoted
I was quoted in The Irish Times yesterday, in a good piece by Brian O’Connell on digital archives and political history. After pointing out that Alexander the Great’s lack of email or Twitter is not an obstacle to writing about him, I got a good finish with “It’s all about people really, and while people…
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Writing Structured Documents
I promised some people yesterday a link to the current version of my handout on writing structured documents, using examples in Microsoft Word. It shows how to use styles rather than simply plastering bold, 24 point on some text – everyone who does not know how to do this already should read it. Â I…
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XML editor for students
I spent this wet morning looking at XML editors for my digital history masters students. XML is essential for managing large collections of historical documents, and is part of a family of markup languages which now run the web, and provide the underlying infrastructure for ‘web services’. Once they understand the principles XML is a…