Tom Scheinfeldt at Foundhistory.org wrote a post yesterday about the ways that Twitter is helping CHNM promote Omeka and create communities of practice for this new platform. In Tom’s post, he called my attention to an excellent post on the uses of Twitter in teaching. I’m not a Twitter user, largely because I already get…
Tag: web 2.0
Omeka is Ready For You
Those of us here at the Center for History and New Media and our partners at the Minnesota Historical Society are excited to announce the release of the public beta version of Omeka, a free and open-source software platform that provides museums, historical societies, libraries, and individuals with an easy-to-use platform for publishing collections and…
Whither Wiki?
Anyone teaching history these days knows how ubiquitous the Wikipedia has become in our students’ imaginings of what sorts of historical information they might use in their research. This semester I’ve received more papers that rely almost exclusively on the Wikipedia than ever before. To try to get my students to think a little more…