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Simple Digital History |
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A collection of 6 soda bottles found buried in the floor of the backyard shed, posted by Erin Klein. This project makes use of ubiquitous digital devices (cell phone, digital camera, laptop, etc) to capture pictures or video of historical artifacts or historical resource (e.g. photographs, letters, and records). Images have been uploaded along with an annotation to a public online digital history website such as our Teaching Digital History ning, Flickr, or Footnote.
There is no minimum requirement with regard to the number of items in a simple digital archive, but the work should be focused on something plural. This might include multiple pages from a book or multiple correspondences. The work might also focus on artifacts or possibly even historical structures. Another important aspect of the work is to be creative and personal in the work.
Simple digital history should be scalable on a number of levels. For one thing, we should be able to pick up the process and apply it in different context with a different collection of materials. We should also be able to do the work with people who have a range skills and access to a range of technologies.
A collection of religious items from the Roman Catholic Church posted by Lindsey Dowling Additional collections include.
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Plantation Letters |
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In a two-part effort, students in a recent graduate course taught at North Carolina State University conducted individual inquires about the life of slaves on the Cameron Plantations in Orange County, North Carolina and Greene County, Alabama. The final products two two forms. Students posted to a online community ning website. These sixteen posts are available online at http://plantation.ning.com/profiles/blog/list. Look for post dated between October 25, 2009 and November 7, 2009. Students then transformed their work into historical episodes and posted these essays to The history Engine at University of Richmond. The essays are online at http://historyengine.richmond.edu/courses/view/38. This work makes use of a collection of digital historical resources digitized at North Carolina State under the direction of Dr. Kevin Oliver called Plantation Letters, online at www.plantationletters.com In one of these essays, Lindsey Ferguson examined the migration of enslaved people in the south. |
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Lincoln Obscure |
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 The project at lincoln.dhpp.org is focused on the life and times of Abraham Lincoln with special consideration for those topics that just a bit off the beaten path. Students in a North Carolina State graduate social studies class on the uses of digital history produced the material on this blog, and in fact, most of the early posts here emerged from an assignment these students completed in which they researched specific topics related to Lincoln. That work is part of a large Digital History and Pedagogy Project. If you have questions, please contact John at
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Historical Soundscape |
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reposted from Teaching Digital History What does it mean to compose? Most of us probably think of music, maybe classical music, when we hear the word compose. Of course, a composition is much more. Compositions involve the creative and even artistic rendering of ideas using various modes to express. We might compose in text or with paint or with sound or even with physical objects. Today, compositions are taking on a new meaning with the emergence of the new technologies. In this activity, students use a free audio software program called Audacity to compose an Historical Soundscape. A soundscape is a collection of sounds that emerge from a natural or human-made environment. For this activity, students can compose sounds to interpret an historical event, place, or people. |
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Documenting and Digital History |
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This project involves the documentation of existing physical resources in a web-based presentation. The rationale for this work is to share knowledge about what is available without actually digitizing vast collections of historical material. This project recognizes that large digitization efforts are costly and time intensive. Approaching digital history from the standpoint of micro-project work will enable teachers and students who are particularly limited in terms of time and money to participate in digital history. |
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