History 493B/693B: Digital History
Herter Hall room 640 – Thursdays 2:30 – 5:00 pm

Course Assignments:

  

Besides the readings that are outlined in the syllabus for our weekly discussions, students will be expected to make weekly postings to their own blogs, comment on other students' blogs, and work on a semester project: a proposal for a digital resource and construct a home page for it. All blog postings should be completed by the Sunday of each week and comments should be completed by Monday. Each week, one graduate student will be in charge of leading the class discussion on the readings assigned for that week and also providing a brief summary of recent class blog postings and comments since our last meeting.

 

Undergraduate Students: I would like to see blog posts of between 350 and 450 words. You should comment on three other blog postings each week.

 

Graduate Students: I expect you to write longer posts (450 words or more) and to comment on at least three other graduate student posts as well as two posts by the undergrad students.

 

For information on setting up a blog at UMass, visit: http://blogs.umass.edu

 

For information on setting up webspace at UMass, visit: http://people.umass.edu