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Here is my GIS Story Map: My Day At York University.
I think one of the most important aspects to making a good History website is understanding the qualities and hazards we’ve gone over and is outlined on our readings; qualities such as Accessibility, Quickness, Interactivity, Scale, Format, Flexibility, and Hypertextuality; and hazards like Quality, Durability, Counterfeit, Readability, and Inaccessibility. For example, the web and its catalog of history does not change or update on its own, unlike organic time. People need to keep up, access and update historical sites to maintain its Quality and Durability.
In addition, the readings have outlined the concerns and often connection of access and quality. Sites such as ProQuest hold and manage tons of historical images and information from articles and news dating over a century back. ProQuest, however, is not free and requires an expensive investment from universities for students to access. On the other side, Wikipedia is accessible and editable by everyone but has no standards to the hazards of digital history. It’s important for a history website to be accessible to many but have a standard to reach or a experienced, unbiased group to handle the editing and updating process.
The readings also provided an idea to make a good history website through interactivity. It outlined Michael O’Malley’s website course:
“Magic, Illusion, and Detection at the Turn of the Last Century,” which presents an extensive set of sources and info that readers and students are to use in order to solve a mystery presented on the site. This method intends to incite the creativity of readers and encourage them to be engaged and follow along. This is an important aspect I think that should be considered when presenting history on a digital format.Hello. I am CJ Reynolds. This is my fourth year in University and this will hopefully be the last History course I need for my degree.
Part of why I took this course over other History courses is because I wanted to take something a bit different from other History courses. Rather than study world history, Digital History seems to invite learning and understanding concepts and ideas that are seldom discussed in my past History courses. I also find the prevalence of technology and how we use it to be vital after graduation. I’m hoping that understanding technology and the way history interacts with technology will help me in the future with whatever profession I end up in.
I am hoping to learn how to design and utilize websites for my future tasks and for establishing information and history in a way that demonstrates my technological understanding. Learning how to make websites and podcasts open up ways for me to record information or study and prepare for assignments and tasks in the future. In addition, being able to build a website will help demonstrate my capabilities to others when search or trying to find a job.
I also hope to learn how to understand and create effective sources and sites. The readings for this weekend have already started giving me a good idea of this. For example, Cohen and Rosenzweig’s Introduction: The Promises and Perils of Digital History discusses the seven qualities (capacity, accessibility, flexibility, diversity, manipulability, interactivity, and hypertextuality) and the five hazards (quality, durability, readability, passivity, and inaccessibility) which I should be considering when designing sites and reading and organizing info. Information like that will hopefully help me analyze digital information and historical information on digital media.
