{"id":118,"date":"2014-06-17T15:57:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T15:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jackhistorynorton.wordpress.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2014-06-17T15:57:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T15:57:43","slug":"walking-before-i-run-a-basic-outline-of-tools-for-my-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/walking-before-i-run-a-basic-outline-of-tools-for-my-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking before I run: a basic outline of tools for my course."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've decided on the categories of tools around which I'll build my course. I'm trying to think like a student, so I've put everything into simple terms. In eight, two week lesson plans we'll cover:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>History bootcamp: what are primary and secondary sources, how do historians use evidence and language.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Words: Analyzing texts with both close and distant reading (Voyant, Ngrams).<\/li>\n<li>Pictures: How to locate, evaluate, and analyze images on the web.<\/li>\n<li>Timelines: How to build robust, explanatory web-timelines (Timeline JS, Dipity)<\/li>\n<li>Exhibits: How to curate an web-exhibit (wordpress or omeka)<\/li>\n<li>Numbers: How to work with numbers to understand the past (IPUMS, Gapminder, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database)<\/li>\n<li>Conversations: How does social media shape how understanding of the past?<\/li>\n<li>Maps: Using GIS to plot the past (MapStory or Harvard's Worldmap project).\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Likely not in that order.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided on the categories of tools around which I&#8217;ll build my course. I&#8217;m trying to think like a student, so I&#8217;ve put everything into simple terms. In eight, two week lesson plans we&#8217;ll cover: History bootcamp: what are primary and secondary sources, how do historians use evidence and language.\u00a0 Words: Analyzing texts with both<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/walking-before-i-run-a-basic-outline-of-tools-for-my-course\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Walking before I run: a basic outline of tools for my course.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,23],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-digital-history","tag-pedagogy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}