Links for Student Digital History Projects & Omeka

American Historical Association Conference
January 8, 2010

http://mcclurken.org/presentations/aha-2010/

Undergraduate Student Projects

Low Level Student Uses of Digital Media

• Wikis as Group Discussions for Readings — http://mcclurken.umwhistory.org/wiki/
• Blogs as Individual Reading Reflections
  • 1^st-year Seminar — http://rwelker.umwblogs.org/2008/10/
• Blogs as course site, group discussion, online publishing platform for text, audio, video.
  • TEDTalks 1st-year Seminar — http://ted2009.umwblogs.org/about/syllabus/

• Blogs as Research Logs (Historical Methods Course)
  • Topic Discussion — http://eweaver.umwblogs.org/2007/09/06/my-topic/
  • Research Problems — http://amandashumaker.umwblogs.org/2007/10/22/frustration/

More Intensive Student Uses of Digital Media

• Blogs as the basis of multimedia research projects (US History in Film)
  • Bonnie & Clyde — http://eweaver.umwblogs.org/bonnieandclyde/
  • Wall Street — http://agrussell.umwblogs.org/wall-street-the-project/
• Themed Blogs as home for exhibit of student work (History of Technology)
  • http://historyoftech.umwblogs.org/

Adventures in Digital History (Upper-level undergraduate seminar)

• Class Blog — http://digitalhistory.umwblogs.org
• Digital Toolkit
  • WordPress – wordpress.org/wordpress.com
  • UMW’s in-house WordPress Multi-User Platform — http://UMWBlogs.org
  • Omeka.org
  • MIT’s Simile Timeline — http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/
  • Delicious.com
  • YouTube.com
  • Flickr.com

Student Group Projects

• James Farmer Project — http://jamesfarmer.umwblogs.org/
• James Monroe Papers Project — http://monroepapers.umwblogs.org/
• Historical Markers Project — http://fredmarkers.umwblogs.org/
• Alumni Project — http://projects.umwhistory.org/alumni

OMEKA — From George Mason University’s Center for History & New Media

• Omeka.org – Home page
  • See “What is Omeka?” movie at http://omeka.org/codex/Documentation
  • Omeka’s Main Features:  http://omeka.org/files/docs/Featurelist.pdf

Student Projects with Omeka

• List of courses using Omeka
  • http://omeka.org/codex/Teach_with_Omeka
• Creating Digital History, NYU, student projects (Dr. A. French)
  • List of student projects: http://aphdigital.org/classes/G572033F09/student-projects/
• Digital Libraries, Simmons University (Dr. C. Schwartz)
  • Example student project: http://alanis.simmons.edu/daisie/
• History in the Digital Age, American University (J. Boggs)
  • Example student project:  http://nschuler.org/omeka/

My Student Projects with Omeka

• Alumni Project — Used Omeka to organize documents & artifacts from interviewees
  • http://projects.umwhistory.org/alumni/omeka/exhibits/
• James Monroe Papers Project – Used Omeka to organize and present scans of Monroe’s letters as Minister to France
  • http://projects.umwhistory.org/monroe/omeka/exhibits

Other Omeka Projects – [Not student sites]

• List of Sites using Omeka — http://omeka.org/codex/View_Sites_Powered_by_Omeka
• Eminent Domain – NYPL
  • http://exhibitions.nypl.org/exhibits/eminent
• Digital Amherst
  • http://www.digitalamherst.org/
• Gulag – Center for History and New Media, GMU
  • http://gulaghistory.org/
• Lincoln at 200 — Newberry Library and Chicago History Museum
  • http://lincolnat200.org/

Interested in Trying Omeka

• Server System Requirements [http://omeka.org/codex/Preparing_to_Install]
• Want to try out Omeka without installing on a server?
  • http://omeka.org/codex/Try_Omeka_Before_Installing
• List of Omeka plug-ins available
  • http://omeka.org/add-ons/plugins/

Links

• Starting place with links to all of my students’ work: http://mcclurken.org/

Contact Me

• jmcclurk [at] umw.edu
• http://twitter.com/jmcclurken