Office: Arts and Humanities Building 2051
(O)219 980 6981
Email: dchenlin@iun.edu
Website: www.iun.edu/~hisdcl
Office hours: T: 10 am-1 pm,
W: 1-4 pm, in person or through online zoom meeting, or by appointment

Purpose of Course:

This is a project-based class that walks you step-by-step through creating web sites and history blogs and using a few common apps in blog creation. All readings are online and available from Canvas.
You need to decide on a major history theme for your blogs, which can be any history you have studied--what you will do in this class is to select some specific topics from that history, and a standard history essay, which you will post onto your website. Besides that essay, you will also employ a few digital history techniques to enhance your website.
Apart from your website and blog(s), you will also do/edit a wikipedia article as a crowd sourcing project, and explore some other digital history techniques through a few apps we will introduce to class, which you may or may not apply to your blogs/websites.

Required readings

All required readings are available online in Canvas. More readings may be added early in the semester.

Class requirements (on campus section)

Class Participation    25 percent
Multi-Media Labs     25 percent
Historiography reading & in-class discussion    20 percent
Website Project    30 percent

Class requirements (online section)

Weekly homework assignments: 70 percent
Completed website: 30 percent