Marketing your website…

All this sounds really cool… except it brought back bad memories of business school – marketing was not my thing.  For something so simple as posting a site on the web, getting people to look at it and use it seems rather complicated and labor intensive.
The mass e-mail thing sounds really simple.  If I ever [...]

Museums and the Internet

Community involvement for on-line museums sounds wonderful.  After all, curators certainly have enough to do as it is without worrying about on-line exhibits.  Things get tagged in order to make them more searchable and easier to find, more people visit the site, the museum gets its name and collections out to the public…everyone is happy.  [...]

Check it out…

Hey guys… check out my webpage and tell me what you think!

first attempt at altering old photo…

Check out my photo of Selina Gray.  She was the housekeeper at Arlington House before the Civil War.  You’ll have to go to My Website

Readings, Nov. 7

Seems like Gutenburg-e got off you a rocky start. People just aren’t looking at them. It does not help that they have not been reviewed. I don’t know why they are not getting the same attention. I don’t mind reading a book on-line. Then again, I also like to have [...]

Readings, Nov. 7

Seems like Gutenburg-e got off you a rocky start. People just aren’t looking at them. It does not help that they have not been reviewed. I don’t know why they are not getting the same attention. I don’t mind reading a book on-line. Then again, I also like to have [...]

Thoughts for a final project…

I currently work for the National Park Service at Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial.  The site is getting ready to close its doors for an indeterminate amount of time in order to install a climate control system and a new fire suppression system, and to also restore the slave quarter buildings.  I thought [...]

Why Digitize?

Digitization is a wonderful thing for researchers.  It can put primary sources right at your fingertips without you ever having to leave your house.  All of us enjoy doing research in our fuzzy slippers.  For a lot of us, however, we have no idea what goes into making these sources available.  There is a lot [...]

The Internet in the Classroom

The more the better.  The way this class is set up is excellent!  All the resources we need are in one place or just a click away.  They are much easier to find and to reference than having to go back and remember where you put that article or this paper.  It also allows for [...]

No Computer Left Behind

Without getting into my feelings about the No Child Left Behind Act (that could be a novel in itself) this article hits the nail on the head of multiple choice tests.  As a former teacher, I do admit that Scantron is wonderful for saving time.  But you end up teaching the students things that college [...]