Week 1 (9/1-9/5)
For Monday’s class:
- Complete Blog Exercise, “On Considering the Digital”
- Read your classmates’ blog posts.
In Monday’s class:
- Blog exercise discussion and review
For Wednesday’s Class:
- View The Civil War, episode 1 (streaming video available in course Moodle site)
In Wednesday’s Class:
- Discussion of documentary
- Introduction to transcription, part 1
For Friday’s class:
- Read the Robert Bonner Introduction to The Soldier’s Pen: Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War. (available on this site via “Assigned Readings” link – this page is password protected, so you will need the password in order to access the readings.)
In Friday’s Class:
- Discussion of reading
- Introduction to transcription, part 2
Assignment due:
- Blog #1, “On Material and Digital Archives” (by 11pm)
