Adam Crymble Plan for Today Background lecture Discussion of experience with digital archives Workshop evaluating a historical website Time to start drafting blog post Terminology Archive Evaluating Sources ID: 232129
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Evaluating the Infinite Archive
Adam CrymbleSlide2
Plan for Today
Background
lecture
Discussion of experience with digital archives
Workshop: evaluating a historical website
Time to start drafting blog postSlide3
TerminologySlide4
ArchiveSlide5
Evaluating SourcesSlide6
WikipediaSlide7
The Last American PirateSlide8
The OnionSlide9
The Onion
“Woman’s Parents Accepting of Mixed-Attractiveness Relationship”
“U.S. Government Offers 100 Million Americans Generous Severance Deal to Leave Country”
“Michelle Obama quietly
reassigned
to department of Agriculture after butting heads with the President”.Slide10
The OnionSlide11
Evaluating the Old Bailey OnlineSlide12
Can you build a citation?
Author
Title
Editor (if relevant)
Publisher (whose site is it?)
Date of PublicationSlide13
Berkeley Checklist from 1995Slide14
Activity: Evaluate a History Website
Critically
evaluate a website with a
partner,
writing
down what
about the website tells you it is or is not a trustworthy scholarly resource. What might you have to watch out for when using this site for research? What are the site’s scholarly limits? Strengths? These written notes will form the basis of your blog post. If we have time, we will come back together as a group to discuss what we have found.
Using
the notes you created with your partner, write a critical evaluation of the website you were assigned, addressing the questions above