23 January: Getting Started

During Class

• Course expectations.
• We’ll search the availability of domain names on Reclaim Hosting. You must use the promotional code: HIST390  on the checkout page to receive the 20% discount

After Class
Purchase your domain name and 1 year of hosting at Reclaim Hosting for $24.* You must use the promotional code: HIST390  on the checkout page to receive the 20% discount

*You must do this before we meet on January 25th.

Please complete the student technology survey.

Read:

• Introduction: What it Means to Be a Historian (Information-Literate)
• Preparing to do digital history. Read: “Interchange: The Promise of Digital History,”Journal of American History (2008).
• Megan O’Neil, “Confronting the Myth of the ‘Digital Native’,” Chronicle of Higher Education, April 21, 2014.
• Miriam Posner, Stewart Varner, and Brian Coxall, “Creating Your Web Presence,” ProfHacker, February 14, 2011.
• Ryan Cordell, “Creating and Maintaining a Professional Presence Online,” ProfHacker, October 3, 2012.