Cleveland History Blogs

Hey Jose, (since we work together) I’m sure we will be discussing this over the next few weeks, but I think we have a lot of options in terms of tools; you could use WordPress Geo Mashup (which will be part of the new history dept. “learning commons”), plain old Google Maps, or perhaps Recollection, which I [...]

Joshua, have you looked into Anthologize? It’s a plugin for WordPress that allows admins to organize and export a site or selection of posts/articles as an ebook (epub), PDF, HTML, or XML. This sounds like a great use case and would have the benefit of preserving “normal” online access to the entire series while archiving each [...]

At CSU, we approached a similar problem by having students create a digital archive of course materials , gathered from CSU Library Special Collections (both digital and digitized items). Student’s grasp of metadata concepts/standards is unsurprisingly weak, though their interpretive work (on display in the online exhibits and posters they create)…[Read more]

Hi Jessica, you are absolutely right. I think you might enjoy this post by Eli Pousson from THATCamp Columbus last year:

http://thatcampcolumbus.org/2010/01/14/how-do-we-share-our-knowledge-of-historic-places/

Hey Jim, I just saw the movie last night. Despite some complaints about the quality of the directing (uneven acting and pacing, filmed entirely in Detroit, etc.), I thought this was a pretty good movie. It really would have been much better had they actually filmed it here in Cleveland, but who knows the politics [...]

By the way, for you Mac users, the fonts are served by TypeKit. Sorry Windows users, you don’t have font-smoothing so no pretty fonts for you.

I forgot to mention that your students will receive an activation email (sent by Google/FeedBurner) after signing up. They will need to confirm/activate their subscription by clicking the link in that email.