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Category Archives: Session Proposals
Proposed new format for scholarly publishing: A “perpetual history”
Here is new format for digital scholarly publishing I an considering for my new “book” project : a “perpetual history” that would be released serially and then refined and expanded for an indefinite period, rather like a one author Wikipedia … Continue reading
Categories: Blogging, Publishing, Session Proposals
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2nd workshop idea: Constructing a WordPress site
In my first post about a series of 10-minute tutorials, some people commented that they would like a separate workshop on starting & constructing your own website. This workshop will feature WordPress tools because they are some of the most … Continue reading
Categories: Blogging, Digital Literacy, General, Open Access, Session Proposals, Workshops
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Is there room for provenance in the digital world?
Although I am not as experienced as some in the world of digital history, as a grad student in both history and information science with a concentration in archives, I have had trouble grappling with the concept of provenance and … Continue reading
Categories: Archives, Libraries, Research Methods, Search, Session Proposals
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Session Idea: Mobile Phone Apps and Tours
More and more places seem to be producing mobile phone applications. With the rise in technology, and the decrease in costs to produce the technology, it makes logical sense to start seeing mobile phone apps in cultural institutions. I am … Continue reading
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Tags: apps, mobile phone, tours, trends
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Using Social Media to Build Community and Collections
I work for a local history museum that has only a rudimentary social media presence, and uses social media as an extension of traditional marketing methods. The staff is also interested in using social media and blogging to 1) engage our audience … Continue reading
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Testing usability of digital history sites
I’d like to propose a session that covers some of the options, guidelines, and pitfalls of using focus groups to provide feedback on digital history sites at various stages of the development process, from early planning to beta testing. How … Continue reading
Categories: Project Management, Session Proposals
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Digital History Pedagogy
Because this got buried in my other comment, I am posting it separately here. I would love to talk about what and how we should teach our students about digital archives. I launched a session in my history methods class … Continue reading
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Incorporating digital projects into public history teaching
Hi everyone, I have had a logistical problem arise that means that I will arrive late to THATCamp and won’t be able to “facilitate” or run this session. However, I would like to put the idea out there in case … Continue reading
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Blogs.
As scholars, even digitally-minded scholars, even blogging scholars, we tend to ask ourselves how we can make our blogs more scholarly. We wonder how the blog can come to approximate the scholarly journal, or at least how it can reproduce … Continue reading
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Branding and Digital Media in the History World: What Works, What Doesn’t
So we’re on Twitter, Facebook (some of us are on Google+), We blog, use Tumblr or post on Pinterest. But as historians, how do we use these tools to tell our story, our vision of the past in a very … Continue reading
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