HIST 390-002: The Digital Past

Here are the additional resources I mentioned today that might help you learn to program:

• W3Schools (teaches HTML, CSS, and many languages)
• Code Academy (teaches JavaScript)

Remember too to check out Yahoo! Pipes if you’re interested in pulling together data from multiple sites. I’ve also fixed the broken link on the overlay features in Google Earth that will let you overlay historical maps (especially Rumsey maps) in Google Earth.

We are meeting in Innovation 223 on Thursday November 29th and Thursday December 6th.

Here are the links I mentioned today to those articles by Alexis Madrigal in The Atlantic about verifying Superstorm Sandy photos shared on social networks:

• “Sorting the Real Sandy Photos from the Fake” — list of photos marked Fake or Real
• If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Subvert ‘Em: Countering Misinformation on the Viral Web — Madrigal’s account of the project to verify viral Sandy photos

Other links mentioned in class:

• Peter Norvig’s “undesigned” Presidential Election 2012 FAQ
• Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s site about Martha Ballard, a colonial midwife: Who Was Martha Ballard? and her book A Midwife’s Tale
• Old Mason library catalog and new experimental Mason Library catalog “inPrimo”
• Prezi presentation software

Remember, every Thursday from now on we’ll be meeting in Innovation 222.