Links for our discussion:
UMW Library Guide to GIS Resources
Images, movies, and audio — What are your favorite sites for finding these kinds of historical materials? Post them on your blogs (linking to this post) or post them in the comments here.
Examples of UMW student digital projects:
Websites:
History of Sterilization Procedures
History of Voting Machines
Wiki projects:
History of the [...]
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Posted in Assignments, HIST299 on Oct 29th, 2007
Assignments for next week’s discussion of The New American History
Monday – Preface, Introduction, Chapters 1-5
Davis, Elle, Jessica, Ellen, Maura
Wednesday – Chapters 6-10
Tommy, Justin, Cheryl, Kari
Friday –Chapters 11-16
Matt, Amanda, Lacey, Julie, Mary Beth
How does one lead a discussion on readings? What approaches might you [...]
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Posted in Assignments, HIST299, Writing on Oct 24th, 2007
Remember that I need to have your revised literature review emailed to me by the start of class time on Friday. No paper copy is necessary.
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Posted in HIST299, Writing on Oct 12th, 2007
See the History Department Resource page for more information on:
Quotations
Ellipses & Brackets
Passive Voice
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Posted in Assignments, HIST299, Writing on Oct 9th, 2007
Go ahead and create a brief post explaining which of your two stories was true and which was false.
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I really enjoyed reading all of your autobiographical (and nearly autobiographical) paragraphs.
Here are just a few of the most-commented-on posts for us to discuss in class.
Justin
Mary Beth
Jessica
Amanda
Elle
Lacey
Kari
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Posted in Assignments, HIST299, Writing on Oct 3rd, 2007
By class time on Friday, make sure you have your two paragraphs up. One must be completely accurate and the other must have some kind of inaccuracy. Do not tell anyone which is which until after Monday’s class discussion.
By class time Monday, comment on at least two of your classmates’ postings with your guesses [...]
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I know talking to many of you that you’ve had trouble with sending your Word 2007 files to people who can’t open them with our older versions of MS Word.
One solution is to follow this link to a YouTube video explaining how you can save your file in a format that will work on earlier [...]
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Posted in Assignments, HIST299, Research, Writing on Sep 26th, 2007
For Monday, the Secondary Source Analysis Questions:
Start by providing the full bibliographic citation for one of your secondary sources
Compose an answer to the following questions:
1. Provide some information about the author.
2. Why did the author write this book? What’s the author’s perspective?
3. [...]
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Based on the blog postings and our experiences, these are the various formats we use to take notes for research papers.
Note Cards
Post-It Notes
Word Processor (with or without templates)
Outlines or free-form notes
Citation (or other pay note-taking software like Nota Bene)
Microsoft OneNote
Excel/Access–For information in larger quantities that is consistent in its form (e.g., the census).
Scribe – GMU’s [...]
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