WordPress for the Humanities:Developing a Digital History Course

Sights & Sounds From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project

1. Visuality & Aurality

2. Ephemeral History

3. Aesthetic Experience & Social Power

4. The Perceptual in History

5. Using the Digital

History 395 Research Seminar:Digitizing Folk Music History

Assumption: students are digital natives

Passive consumption √

Active critical digital inquiry x

Are they?

WordPress = an open source content management system

(cms)

quickly "scale" a digital humanities course

a flexible template for bringing together multimedia objects, tools, narratives,

interactivity, interpretation

peek "under the hood" at digital mechanics

WordPress User Interface

Final Interpretive Digital History Project

Annotation Tool: Crocodoc

Annotation

Tables

Tool:WP-TableReloaded

Writing (Builds On Annotation and Tables)

Use digital toslow downnot speed upevidence ->argumentprocess

Interactivity

Comments & Followup

Tagging & Tag Cloud "Folksonomy"

Timeline

SLIDE

Tools:Timerime Timeline JS

Geocoding/Visualization

Tools:MapPress ProWP-Table Reloaded

Narrative Design Tool: Wireframe cc

Narrative Design Tool: Spun Theme

Deformance Tool:Trevor Owens' Coding Exercise

History as Remix Tool:Audacity

WordPress for the Humanities:Developing a Digital History Course

Sights & Sounds From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project