HIST 390-001 The Digital Past Fall 2013

This list of hints for checking the credibility of sources for information can be useful to others who are struggling on what kind of source to use for their project.

If you want to know more about the International Standard Book Number, go visit this web page. It especially tells you what elements the ISBN is made up of besides its history and facts.

Interesting article about how a lego mindstorm bot got rid of DRM on a kindle device.

a good website help you understand all the details about MARC.

A collection of online libraries that have books and other materials you can read online for free

A great list for those that are still unsure about using powerpoint for their presentations.

Just a few tips to consider if/when you feel your audience is losing interest. A lot of these tips are common sense and straight forward. However, although they are simple, at the same time they can be easily overlooked and under utilized. Lastly, most of these would not work with our class presentations. They are geared more towards larger presentations that take up more time.

This website, while not very informative, is very interesting. It displays the updates on Wikipedia articles through sounds.

Hey, that is neat.

I think it's done in HTML5, which may be why I don't get any sound for it in Chrome -- not all browsers can manage all features of the new, drastically revised version of HTML yet.

We heard from Mahrokh the other day about Snowden's email provider Lavabit shutting down -- turns out they've come back with a program called "Dark Mail." By the way, did you know that the email state employees (such as faculty like me who work at state-funded universities like GMU) are all technically public records? As long as the email isn't covered by student privacy acts like FERPA, anyone can request to see my GMU email because it's a public record. Technically.

wow, this is a great a article! I was actually thinking about what they were going to do after Lavabit and Silent Circle both closed their e-mail systems, especially since Zimmerman was not one of those people who seemed to stop coming up with new ideas. Its interesting to see how this new technology plays out.

For my upcoming presentation i just wanted to share a little background knowledge of who i am presenting on! Enjoy!

A site with some useful tips for people like me who never really learned how to study or are awful at memorizing things and information.

Generally useful. Thanks, Stephanie.

A friend of mine on Twitter said that he remembers when the MIME format for email attachments was competing with the UUencode format for email attachments -- kind of like VHS versus Betamax. Here's the Wikipedia article on the format that lost.

Multiple sources licensed under creative commons.

For those who still have not decided what presentation software to use, here is a list of alternatives from those that offer cool transitions and animations to those that are actually animated.