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 Welcome to blogger. This is where you will post your observations, insights, and commentary on our readings. The instructions straight from the syllabus:

The Digital Past and Future.  This is a rapidly changing field.  History is changing, but so are the institutions that historians often work with, archives, museums, libraries, etc. Adam Crymble’s Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age covers much of that transition. Throughout the semester we will read and discuss chapters. Prior to the discussion, you will do a forum post about the reading.  

Ø  Requirements

o   Entry should be 100 - 200 words

o   We will schedule this throughout the semester and cover different topics. 

o   The post should discuss the reading but also how it relates to other parts of the class.

Additional instructions:

Blogger is pretty straightforward. It is Google's blogging tool. It has the basics. You basically type in your text and hit publish. Because it is a Google product, it integrates well with YouTube, Google Drive, etc.

The blog is set so that it will not show up in a search, but everyone in the class can read it and anyone with the URL can see it. It is not private.

Comments

  1. Patrick EnrightSeptember 15, 2022 at 11:02 AM

    I thought the first chapter of Crymble's book was interesting and insightful considering that digital history and things of this nature is something that was not that familiar with before this class. Throughout the chapter he talks about different scholars or historians and the use of computation in their research. One quote that stood out to me was "Different groups of scholars have different aims and approaches and therefore require different types of support to flourish." This reminded me of steps we are taking to work on our Allegany history project because all of our projects are different and will require different resources.

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  2. Ryan BauerSeptember 16, 2022 at 7:14 AM

    I always think that it is odd to think about current technology historically. This chapter started by stating, "Computing in historical research according to historiography, emerged in 1949. It is weird to think that computers were being invented in 1949. Compared to current technology, their computing strategies have been all but forgotten. The bulk of this chapter was describing different historians that used computation to aid in their research. Even though most of the historians used different methods, all were successful in their research. Technology has helped historians uncover paper trails and follow them much closer and more accurate, similar to social sciences.

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