[This post appeared originally on the collaborative blog hist.net.] The American Historical Association has created an Archives Wiki that allows historians to collect and share information about archives around the world in a wiki format. The Archives Wiki project is built on the MediaWiki platform and aims to leverage the collective knowledge and experience of…
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AHA Talks January 2008
I recorded two of my talks at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington, D.C., January 2008. The first one is the presentation I gave at the pre-conference workshop on the intersection of teaching, research, and new media. The second one was a presentation about the 1989 project that we are working…
Another Semester of Wikiness
As I have for several semesters now, I once again required my students to create Wikipedia entries and then track them through the semester to see what happened to their creations. Once we reached the end of the semester, they had to write something for our class blog in which they discussed what they learned…
Let the Blogging Begin
Episode 10 of Digital Campus is now up and available for your listening pleasure. I can hardly believe that this is our 10th episode…time does fly when you’re having fun. In this episode Tom, Dan, and I discuss the ups and downs of academic blogging. Of particular note in this episode–at least from my perspective–is…