Getting Started
Internet Basics
- How the Internet Works in 5 Minutes (2009) (Video – 5:00)
- Dan Cohen & Roy Rosenzweig, “Getting Started: The Basic Technologies Behind the Web,” in Digital History (2006)
- 40 Maps that explain the internet, Vox (2014)
- WWW Timeline (Pew Research Internet Project, 2014)
- “How the internet has woven itself into American life,” Pew Research (2014)
Your Web Presence
- Miriam Posner, Stewart Varner & Brian Coxall, “Creating Your Web Presence,” Chronicle of Higher Education (2/14/11)
- Jim Groom, “How the Web was Ghettoized for Teaching and Learning in Higher Ed” (2014)
- Seth Zweifler, “For Professors, Online Presence Brings Promise (and Peril),” Chronicle of Higher Education (4/21/2014)
- Heather Cox Richardson, “Should Historians Use Twitter, PT 1 & 2” (2013)
- Ryan Cordell, “How to Start Tweeting (and Why You Might Want To),” ProfHacker (8/11/2010)
PRACTICUM:
- Set up Reclaim Hosting
- Install WordPress (Documentation)
Assess your online presence & outline what presence you think you need
- Academia.edu;
- Google Profile;
- LinkedIn;
- Twitter;