HIST&146, Mod 01 Assignment - Your Learning Style and the Digital History site PDF

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©2011 Susan Vetter, unless otherwise indicated, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. HIST 146, Module 1 Assignment

Your Learning Style and the Digital History site How I Learn History and the Digital History site Develop Your History Learning Style Digital History Site and Your Notes Digital History: Explore the Digital History site The Digital History Quiz How to Take the Digital History Quiz Digital History Quiz with Answers

How I Learn History and the Digital History site Before we begin, let's talk about successful strategies. How will we make sense of hundreds of years of American history? Develop Your History Learning Style Everyone has a different history learning style: You may work well with timelines and use dates as the anchors in your mind on which you hang ideas. OR You may find yourself fascinated by certain historical people. Perhaps studying the life of Abraham Lincoln helps you to make sense of the westward expansion of the United States (Lincoln was a lawyer in Illinois and Illinois was a western state at the time) as well as the events that led to the Civil War. The Way I See It Project will give you the opportunity to pursue looking at

history through particular peoples' eyes. OR Looking at photographs/paintings, listening to people/music, studying maps, and/or watching video makes history come alive for you. You may not know yet what works best for you, but begin to think about how you learn in other classes/subjects and apply that self-understanding here.

Digital History Site and Your Notes As we begin the course, think about how you make sense of things and apply that knowledge to your study of history. Begin to discover how the tools on the Digital History site will help you structure your notes in a way that fits your style. In a computer file or paper notebook, take notes on each week's readings. Taking notes helps you remember what you read. But taking notes involves more than jotting down scattered phrases from the readings. You make sense of what you read/saw/heard by looking over your notes and then restructuring and annotating them. Typing in a computer file, you can move passages up and down, change the font, and so on. In a paper notebook, you may wish to use the left-hand page as a place to summarize the notes on the right-hand page. [NOTE: You may "take notes" by dictating/recording. Use the same process of restructuring and annotating with your audio notes.] Use whatever rearranging and annotating that enables you to keep track of key people, concepts, and themes. The Digital History Website offers resources that appeal to different learning styles. Take the opportunity now to explore what is on the site to learn about the many different types of materials available to help you understand

American history.

Digital History: Explore the Digital History site 1. Go to the Digital History site: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ 2. Notice the menu of choices down the left-side of the screen as well as

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the images that link to many of those same menu choices in the center of the screen. Select the "Textbook" (also called "Online Textbook") and look quickly at the timelines and guided readings there. [You don't have to read of them this week.] Go back to the Digital History home page by choosing "Digital History Home" from the left-hand menu or using the "Back" option in your browser. Notice the different timelines available. In the "Online Textbook," you see a link to "Interactive Timelines" above the "Guided Readings." But the left-hand menu includes a link to "Interactive Timeline." Look at that timeline which shows a map of the United States and a sliding "life span" bar that you can slide along a time scale and see social, political, and economic event symbols appear. You can then roll your mouse over a symbol and see a brief description of what it represents. Explore quickly many of the other choices from the left-hand or the center screen menu. In this folder, take the Digital History Quiz.

The Digital History Quiz Like the Plagiarism Quiz, the intention of the Digital History Quiz is for you to achieve a perfect score. That perfect score indicates that you explored the Digital History site. Therefore ○ The quiz is open for all of the first course week from 10 am Thursday until 11 pm on the following Wednesday.

○ The quiz has no time limit. ○ If you have trouble, you can come back to the quiz and try again. ○ If you submit the quiz and discover that you did not score 100%, then you can take the quiz again. ○ Once you answer all of the questions correctly, then you will see 10 points (100%) entered in your Grade Report for the Digital History Quiz and you will not be able to take the quiz again. Like the Plagiarism Quiz, the Digital History Quiz is not included in the Weekly Quizzes in your Grade Report.

How to Take the Digital History Quiz 1. Open the Digital History site: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ in one browser

window or tab. 2. [Use the File menu at the top of your browser and select New Window or New Tab. On a PC, you can click CTRL+N for New Window or CTRL+T for New Tab in either Firefox or Internet Explorer.] 3. Begin the Digital History Quiz here in this window by clicking on the quiz link below.

Digital History Quiz with Answers 1. Choose "Interactive Timeline" from the left-hand menu. What happens to the gold Life Span bar at the bottom of the map as you move it from 1590 to 2010? A) It gets wider thus representing the increasing life span from 20 years in 1590 to over 70 years in 2010. B) You can't move the life span bar. C) It stops adding the blue squares for "Political/Diplomatic" events in the 20th century (after 1900). D) It removes symbols from the map so that fewer appear in 2010 than in 1590. 2. From the Digital History home page, choose the "Multimedia" image link from the center of the page. Select "Digital Stories about American History" from the top of that page. What happens when you select "The World before 1492" from the top of that page? A) I see a Time Machine but it does not work very well. B) I can watch a Flash movie narrated by Dr. Steven Mintz (the DH textbook author) that provides an overview of American History C) I can listen to RealPlayer audio lecture by Dr. David Blight called "Slavery and African American Memory." D) I can wait for a Windows Media Video (wmv) file to open and play in a new window/tab The URL for the Multimedia page is: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/multimedia.cfmNote that you DO NOT need to play any of these multimedia resources this week. 3. On the Digital History home page, go to our online textbook by selecting "Online Textbook" from the left-hand menu or by selecting "Textbook" from the center menu. What is the title of the first "Guided Reading" in that textbook?

A) "Colonization" B) "Interactive Timelines" C) "The First New Nation" D) "The First Americans"

Use the Reference Room resources to answer these questions. Choose "History Reference Room" from the left-hand menu or the "Reference" image link in the center of the Digital History home page. 4. Look down the Reference Room list and choose "Glossaries." What do you see? A) Writing Guides B) Beringia C) Adams, John D) A choice between "A Glossary of American History" and "A Glossary of Native American History" A glossary is a list of terms with definitions much like a dictionary but glossaries are usually for specific subjects.

5. Under "Historical Articles," click on "Encyclopedia in American History." What is the first topic entry that you can choose? A) American Revolution B) American Indian C) Abolitionist Movement D) Aardvark...