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By September 3:

1) Join Digital History Group on Blogs@Baruch

2) Group edit BuddyPress doc: “Digital History Lexicon”
  • From Digital History group page, choose “docs” tab and open “Digital History Lexicon”
  • If you see a warning that someone else is editing the document, leave a comment with the phrase “insert as definition for…” and then come back and clean it up (or we will).
  • Edit the document, either contributing, modifying, polishing, or illustrating with an exemplary link the key phrases listed in bold, or commenting on the doc using the comments interface below it.

3) Write a blog post of 250 or fewer words detailing the contributions/changes you made to the BuddyPress doc, and reflect on the constraints or possibilities for using this tool for collaborative work.

By September 5:

4) Create accounts, if you don’t already have them, on Twitter, Delicious, and Google (reader).

  • Send a tweet with the hashtag #baruchdh, and save at least one digital history site to your Delicious account with the tag #baruchdh

5) Complete readings:

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1. Housekeeping:

  • Attendance
  • Reminder that no class on Monday
  • Expect a post like this one for every class, as well as another post that lays out the assignment for the next class
  • Reminder to please use online syllabus since it is an evolving document

2. Blogs@Baruch / BuddyPress docs tutorial

3. Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, Digital History (2005), “Introduction”

  • benefits: capacity, accessibility, flexibility, diversity, manipulability, interactivity, hypertextuality/nonlinearity
  • dangers: quality, durability, readability, passivity, and inaccessibility.

4. Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, Digital History (2005) “Exploring the History Web”

  • Historicizing the trajectory of digital history
  • Five main genres of history websites: archives (containing primary sources); exhibits, films, scholarship, and essays; teaching; discussion; and organizational.

5. Jonathan Shaw, “The Humanities, Digitized: Reconceiving the Study of Culture,” Harvard Magazine, May-June 2012.

  • How have things changed between 2005 and 2012? (archive construction, crowdsourcing, geospatial analysis, simulations, text-mining and visualizations, deep and/or broad collaboration)
  • Examples: Show and tell, e.g. http://www.jdarchive.org/?la=en
  • Are we in the  middle of a revolution?  On the cusp of one?

6. RSS in Plain English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU

7. Google Reader, Delicious, Twitter.

8. For new version of assignments due September 3 and 5, see this post.