ECI 727: Digital History and Social Studies
Students can practice "doing history" when they are allowed to interact with digital resources. This hands-on approach to learning social studies is engaging and student centered.
Digital media can enrich history because it allows students to view, study, and research history differently than before; almost creating a new history because students can find more facts but also ask different questions about historical topics. Many digital archives allow students to manipulate historical materials which provides user the opportunity to view, study, and research history differently than before. I also discovered that digital media can facilitate the idea of “doing history” in order for students to learn history, much like science courses require labs. Digital media has also changed the way that we teach history and have students share their historical work.
In Dr. Lee’s class I completed 5 seminars focused on digital history. Through the seminars, I was introduced to a lot of digital resources that I can use in my classroom such as:
-History Engine (http://historyengine.richmond.edu/)
-Without Sanctuary (http://withoutsanctuary.org/)
-Valley of the Shadow (http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/)
-Virginia Historical Society (www.vahistorical.org)
-Documenting the American South (http://docsouth.unc.edu/)
-Digital History Reader (www.dhr.history.vt.edu/)
-Digital Docs in a Box (http://digitaldocsinabox.org/)
-Digital History (http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/)
-National Archives Experience (http://www.digitalvaults.org/)
Digital media can enrich history because it allows students to view, study, and research history differently than before; almost creating a new history because students can find more facts but also ask different questions about historical topics. Many digital archives allow students to manipulate historical materials which provides user the opportunity to view, study, and research history differently than before. I also discovered that digital media can facilitate the idea of “doing history” in order for students to learn history, much like science courses require labs. Digital media has also changed the way that we teach history and have students share their historical work.
In Dr. Lee’s class I completed 5 seminars focused on digital history. Through the seminars, I was introduced to a lot of digital resources that I can use in my classroom such as:
-History Engine (http://historyengine.richmond.edu/)
-Without Sanctuary (http://withoutsanctuary.org/)
-Valley of the Shadow (http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/)
-Virginia Historical Society (www.vahistorical.org)
-Documenting the American South (http://docsouth.unc.edu/)
-Digital History Reader (www.dhr.history.vt.edu/)
-Digital Docs in a Box (http://digitaldocsinabox.org/)
-Digital History (http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/)
-National Archives Experience (http://www.digitalvaults.org/)
Using the American Memory collection from the Library of Congress, I developed a lesson plan where students answer a historical question about the Works Progress Administration (WPA) using digital materials. The lesson plan is one that I can use with my classes in the future in order to incorporate digital history.
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While learning about digital history, I also investigated how to use digital illustrations in my classroom and developed a lesson plan pertaining to the Battle of the Alamo.
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