wordpress for the humanities: developing a digital history course
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WordPress for the Humanities:Developing a Digital History Course
Sights & Sounds From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project
1. Visuality & Aurality
2. Ephemeral History
3. Aesthetic Experience & Social Power
4. The Perceptual in History
5. Using the Digital
History 395 Research Seminar:Digitizing Folk Music History
Assumption: students are digital natives
Passive consumption √
Active critical digital inquiry x
Are they?
WordPress = an open source content management system
(cms)
quickly "scale" a digital humanities course
a flexible template for bringing together multimedia objects, tools, narratives,
interactivity, interpretation
peek "under the hood" at digital mechanics
WordPress User Interface
Final Interpretive Digital History Project
Annotation Tool: Crocodoc
Annotation
Tables
Tool:WP-TableReloaded
Writing (Builds On Annotation and Tables)
Use digital toslow downnot speed upevidence ->argumentprocess
Interactivity
Comments & Followup
Tagging & Tag Cloud "Folksonomy"
Timeline
SLIDE
Tools:Timerime Timeline JS
Geocoding/Visualization
Tools:MapPress ProWP-Table Reloaded
Narrative Design Tool: Wireframe cc
Narrative Design Tool: Spun Theme
Deformance Tool:Trevor Owens' Coding Exercise
History as Remix Tool:Audacity
WordPress for the Humanities:Developing a Digital History Course
Sights & Sounds From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project