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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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, 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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These are tips that some of us in class have found helpful in our daily computer use.
Word 97/2003
“To alphabetize a bibliography in Word97, select data, click table, sort, OK, and the data will be sorted automatically for you.” — Ellen F.
Fonts and colors in Word — Justin
Jessica reminds us that we can use CTRL-F [...]
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American Memory by Library of Congress
American Memory – Subject Headings
“I Do Solemnly Swear . . .”: Presidential Inaugurations at American Memory
James Buchanan’s Presidential Inauguration (1857)
Lincoln documents, photos & transcriptions
www.DoHistory.org
Center for History and New Media — http://chnm.gmu.edu/
US sources and web reviews — http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
Richard Frethorne letter (1623)
Non-US sources and web reviews http://worldhistorymatters.org/
U. S. Historical Census Data [...]
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Some examples from the class….
Name confusion — Justin
Wikipedia…. — Amanda
Wrong audience — Lacey
Credibility Questions — Davis, Tommy
Fanboy Sites (aka obsessive amateur) — Julie
[The site she should have linked to for today....]
What do we do about blogs? — Kari
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Well, I’m sure exhausted after 50 minutes of fast-paced searching in 4 different databases and a quick del.icio.us tutorial. I imagine everyone else is too. But, during those 50 minutes there were more than 100 different source citations marked in del.icio.us in those 50 minutes for people in the class. That doesn’t include those [...]
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