http://thalpern.umwblogs.org Just another UMW Blogs.org weblog Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:21:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Click to Play This video was originally shared on blip.tv by thalpern87 with a No license (All rights reserved) license. http://thalpern.umwblogs.org/2008/04/30/making-it-happen/ I found the articles that I chose to read quite interesting and made me really think about digital history and how it not only affects students, but teachers.        In her article, Doing History in the Digital Age, Barbara Weinstien discusses her journey through teaching in parallel to technology and how it ... http://thalpern.umwblogs.org/2008/04/07/article-assignment/ So this weekend I have been cleaning up the slide show, transcribing Monroe's 3rd letter in the volume and getting text ready to put up under the James Monroe family section of the website. Andrea and I met Friday to start uploading to Omeka. As we are uploading there seems ... http://thalpern.umwblogs.org/2008/03/30/updates/ Hey all, I have also started adding info on the monroe and his family page: check it out! http://thalpern.umwblogs.org/2008/03/20/more-of-the-website-done/ Thanks to all the questions and comments of the class this morning, the website header has been appropriately changed. Also, I have done to about page. Take a look and let me see what you think.. Thanks all! http://thalpern.umwblogs.org/2008/03/20/james-monroe-website/ So, I created a draft of the slide show on movie maker. It seems to be going smoothly I just need to figure out more appropriate music other than ode to joy though. I also created the website for the JMP through umwblogs. There seemed to be a dispute over ... http://thalpern.umwblogs.org/2008/03/20/movie-maker-and-website/ Other than the breakdown, there has been a lot of things I have been thinking about regarding our website. I created a "website" on wordpress. We have to transport it to UMW which is understandable. I am not sure that wordpress is the best choice anymore. OMEKA is good for ... http://thalpern.umwblogs.org/2008/03/13/the-jmp-website/ It seems that the group is not on task one hundred percent. I think we all want something different out of the website and I think it would be appropriate to start a break down on the blog. In class today, we were all talking about the website and I ... http://thalpern.umwblogs.org/2008/03/11/breakdown-for-the-jmp-website/ So I have looked at a few wikipedia pages that regard historical figures. I feel like history has a lot to do with major events etc...but I love studying the people more. So the first site I looked at was a Queen Victoria Wikipedia page. I was really interested to ... http://thalpern.umwblogs.org/2008/02/18/wiki-pages/ Hello all, how long has it been...like 3 weeks!? Well to be honest, blogging has been on my mind for a while. I am actually quite nervous what to write and what to write about. So I am just going to start writing about the project. This project has made me do ... http://thalpern.umwblogs.org/2008/02/17/a-fear-of-blogging-and-a-fear-of-this-project/