Updates

Here are my notes from yesterday's class.

Interviews:
So far you have 4! Great job everyone
For the game on the 27th Tom has set up 3 more. Aimee will contact him to get names, times and possible information about each if she can.
Joe has 3 UH grads that he knows from another group that he will set up interviews with.

Class dates:

10/26 we will meet in the Learning Commons of the Library. If you haven't signed up for a computer try to get a Mac since the software we will use is on them. We decided to buddy up into pairs of 1 person that knows the software helping 1 person that doesn't. We will talk about the software and about storyboarding.

11/2 we will discuss digital preservation in more length. Class held in rm 520

11/9 TBA mostly we will talk about putting together your project. Class held in rm 520

11/16 TBA. this class time will be cut short. Class held in rm 520


11/23 Off for Thanksgiving

11/30 No scheduled class. This will be your day to work on your projects.

12/7 Class will be held in rm 520. We will watch all of your videos.


Frontier Fiesta
Turns out that the Frontier Fiesta group on campus has videos of Bill McCurdy and Dr. Sam Quintero. I will give them a call to see if we can get copies. If they have other videos of Alums I'll see if we can get those also.

Dropbox
You will have to compress your video to an MP4 in order to deposit it into dropbox. Especially if you used the HD camera. If this is difficult for you please put it onto a flash drive or bring the camera up to me. I have software on my work computer that easily converts it.

That's all for now.

Thanks,
Michele

What will we do in class today?

We'll talk about:
1. Your blogs and some housekeeping.

• Please bring the URL if I don't already have it. I've added those that I know about to the side bar. We'll iron out any problems you might be having with blogging, settings or commenting.
• Update the syllabus schedule to reflect the changes we made during class last week
• Update the syllabus to include grading structure.

2. Themes. I've made a copy of all the themes for the blogs that I know of. If you haven't posted themes or I don't have you listed on the side please email your themes to me as soon as possible. Let's discuss:

• what themes seem to be emerging?
• determine the themes we plan to pursue. 
• questions to ask interviewees in order to get them to talk about the themes
• develop a list of questions for each theme.

3. Researching memories:

• we'll talk about finding other digital history sites and journal articles. 
• the rising trend of Digital Humanities.
• About the different digital ways that historians and others are using technology to present history.
• we'll talk about whether these methods are more or less effective.

Blog assignment:

1. Find at least 3 other digital histories online and 2 journal articles about using videos or other digital media to produce and present history.

1. Explain why digital histories are effective or not for scholarship.
2. Do they engage their audience?
3. Who is their intended audience?
4. Who is producing these digital histories and are they authoritative?

Post to your blog. Add the link to your post in the comments section of this blog post.

2. Read and comment on fellow students blog posts.