1. WordPress for the Humanities:
Developing a Digital History Course
Sights & Sounds From the Berkeley Folk
Music Festival Project

4. 1. Visuality & Aurality
2. Ephemeral History
3. Aesthetic Experience & Social Power
4. The Perceptual in History
5. Using the Digital

5. History 395 Research Seminar:
Digitizing Folk Music History

6. Assumption: students are digital
natives
Passive consumption √
Active critical digital inquiry x
Are they?

8. 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

9. WordPress User Interface

10. Final Interpretive Digital History Project

11. Annotation Tool: Crocodoc

12. Annotation

13. Tables
Tool:
WP-Table
Reloaded

14. Writing
(Builds On Annotation and Tables)
Use digital to
slow down
not speed up
evidence ->
argument
process

15. Interactivity
Comments
& Followup

16. Tagging &
Tag Cloud "Folksonomy"

17. Timeline
SLIDE
Tools:
Timerime
Timeline JS

18. Geocoding/
Visualization
Tools:
MapPress Pro
WP-Table Reloaded

19. Narrative Design Tool: Wireframe cc

20. Narrative Design Tool: Spun Theme

21. Deformance
Tool:Trevor
Owens'
Coding Exercise

29. History as Remix Tool:Audacity

31. WordPress for the Humanities:
Developing a Digital History Course
Sights & Sounds From the Berkeley Folk
Music Festival Project