Assignments Due September 17th and 19th

By September 17th, 9pm

Explore http://ds106.us/.  Write a post of less than 500 words exploring the approach members of the ds106 community take to questions of intellectual property, fair use, and network ethics. How does this community understand the “Commons”?

As part of this assignment, you are encouraged to ask a question on Twitter of some central members of the ds106 community:

• Ask @jimgroom questions you have about the philosophy behind ds106.
• Ask @cogdog questions about community-forming and modes of interaction.
• Ask @mburtis questions about the assignment bank and building the architecture of ds106.
• Ask @mbransons questions about the (re)use of media in the course.

To ask them on Twitter, just include their twitter handle (for example, @jimgroom) in your tweet. And be sure to tag your question with the #baruchdh hashtag!

By September 19th, 8am 

Leave a comment on at least two posts by your classmates.

By September 19th, 5:50pm

Complete reading:

• Cohen and Rosenzweig, Digital History, “Collecting History Online.”

• Sam Wineburg, “Thinking Like a Historian,” TPS Quarterly.