I found the text be very informative. It gave a positive and negative perspective on digital history. On one hand, digital history is great because of how easily accessible it can be. On the other hand, you have to worry about the credibility, any possible biast, and the quality of the work.
I personally just use common sense when assessing information online. When I see blogs that are bias and opinion written, I always keep in mind that they are trying to defend their ideology at any cost.
With me blogging from my cell phone, digital history has never been more accessible! I am really excited because I can finally rant professionally as a historian. It's pretty cool because I can access digital history from virtually anywhere, thus making history sources endless; credible and uncredible.
I was thinking about creating a content based website dedicated to some part of history using blogger. I feel like this would give me an opportunity to research a topic of interest and elaborate on my theories.
In general, I feel as if the internet affects how millions of people learn. The purpose of online reading is to make reading more adaptable in the 21st century. Technology such as tablets have made reading a variety of books as easy as ever.
We've got some great examples already of content-focused blogs (blogs that have been turned into websites), but you might do just as well looking at WX or Weebly. You really want to pick a topic that you are interested in; it does not have to be something that you think that I think will be good; it could be small or large. I just had a student do a great project on Chinese porcelain because that was something she was interested in.
ReplyDeleteSo, think outside the box.