Author: Jason’s Digital History Adventures

Dear Journal, This will be my last entry on this blog. Reflecting back on my digital history project and my journals entries, I believe I did alright, but I feel like I could have done a lot better and a lot more. This semester being my last, I was busy with equally hard classes in … Continue reading Week 14 – End of Line

Dear Journal, Last week I did not write because I opted for the hypothes.is option presented to us by Professor McClurken. These past few weeks have been the busiest. In addition to the group project, I have also been preoccupied with exams, literature readings, and a thesis paper. I have been working on my parts … Continue reading Week 13 – Winding Down

Dear Journal, This week has not been particularly interesting,  so this entry will be short. I did submit my thesis draft for review this week. In the following weeks, I will be able to work on my group project. I did manage to find some sources for some of my markers since my last report. … Continue reading Week 11 Post

Dear Journal, This week we were tasked to pick one article from AHA’s Perspectives, one article from Writing History in the Digital Age, and view the guidelines of the American Historical Association and the Journal of American History.  We were then to blog about what changes we saw for historians in an increasingly digital world. For AHA’s Perspectives, I chose … Continue reading Week 10 – Digital Evolution

Dear Journal, This week we were asked to look at five sites, or blogs, and share five lessons we learned from each. This is what I have learned: I. Creating Your Web Presence: A Primer for Academics 1. Employers will most likely look at your Facebook profile. Therefore, you must adjust the privacy settings of … Continue reading Week 9 – 5 for 5

Dear Journal, This week I tried to find 4 sources each for the 10 markers I chose for our group project. However, I have had no luck in finding such sources. I have indications that my fellow group mates have found their sources with relative ease. I too though I could find mine with such … Continue reading Week 8 – Progress & Regress

Dear Journal, Today we were asked to view the history and discussion tabs of several Wikipedia history entries and write about what what we see.  I viewed three articles about historic moments: The War of 1812, The Scientific Revolution, and the First Council of Nicaea. The War of 1812 page is the only one of these … Continue reading Week 6 – Copyright and Wikipedia