| Week Starts |
Topic |
Required Assignments and Critical Course Deadlines |
Due Date |
Possible
Points |
| 31 January |
Unit 1: Introductions |
Introduction
paragraph, Syllabus quiz and Canvas post |
8 am
2 February |
10+5 |
Unit 2, Part A, The Local Digital History Scene |
Blog creation |
8 am
5 February |
20 |
| Unit 2, Part B, The Evolution of the Digital Web |
Blog post |
10 |
| 5 February |
Unit 3: The Multi-Talented Blog (Social Media) |
Blog post
Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (8 February)
|
8 am
8 February |
10 |
| Unit 4: Building a Web Culture (Style Design Standards and HTML 5) |
Blog post |
8 am
12 February |
10 |
| 12 February |
Unit 5: Copyright and the Web |
Blog post |
8 am
15 February |
10 |
| Unit 6: Midterm Exam |
Midterm Exam |
8 am
19 February |
125 |
| 19 February |
Unit 7: Digitizing and Sourcing Images and Text (and Video) |
Blog post (St. Petersburg map assignments are optional this week.) |
8 am
22 February
|
10 |
| Unit 8: The Information Age |
Project Proposal and Blog Post |
8 am
26 February |
50 + 10 |
26
February |
Unit 9: What Is Real and Not Real in the Digital and Real Worlds |
Blog post (Slatington News assignment is optional this week.)
|
8 am
1 March |
10 |
| Unit 10: Final Exam |
Final
exam
Last Withdrawal Date (5 March) |
8 am
5 March |
150 |
| 5 March |
Unit 11: Digital Online Archives |
Blog post (Pinterest board assignment is optional this week.) |
8 am
8 March |
10 |
| Unit 12: Data Visualization |
Blog post (Digital Visualization assignment is optional this week.) |
8 am
12 March |
10 |
| 12 March |
Unit 13: Big Picture, User Participation Projects and Crowd-Sourcing (Genealogy) |
Blog post (Historical Transcription assignment is optional this week.) |
8 am
15 March |
10 |
| Unit 14: There are three possibilities for this unit. |
Option 1: GIS and History (Reston Historical Map assignment is optional.)
Blog post |
8 am
19 March |
10 |
Option 2: Tools, Tools and Tools, What Exactly Are tools? (Timeline assignment is optional.)
Blog post |
Option 3: Data Mining and Text Mining (Historical Translation assignment is optional.)
Blog post |
| 19 March |
Unit 15: Project Presentation for Review |
Final Project Due and Canvas posting |
8 am
22 March |
200+5 |
| Unit 16 Project Completion and Course Review |
Final Final Project, Reflective paragraph and Canvas posting
Course End Date (27 March) |
8 am
26 March |
20+5 |
| |
|
TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS |
|
1,000 |