May 1, Friday: Alberta Augustana, Minnesota Morris, and New College Fla.

May 6, Wednesday: UNC Asheville, U.Va. Wise, and Midwestern

Think about the following questions as you read Kennedy’s first 4 chapters:

• What were Wilson’s goals?  Why did he get involved?  What were his goals regarding government and mobilization?
• What was the US’s role in the Great War?  What does Kennedy see as the nation’s contributions?  Weaknesses?
• How would small towns have been affected?  Schools?  What are the impacts on rights and freedoms during the war?
• What were the issues related to mobilization and conscription?  How did race, class, gender, immigration status, etc. play into those issues?
• What is Progressivism and what role does it seem to have played in lead up to and mobilization for American involvement in the Great War?
• What does Kennedy seem to think of Wilson?  Of Pershing and the AEF?
• What was the impact of the war on US soldiers who served?

Here are some good posts about using cameras in archives

• http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/digital-workflows-for-the-archives/53505
• http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/the-articulated-arm-of-an-archive-raider/29243
• http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/using-docscanner-to-scan-on-the-go/35091 (last is about a mobile phone scanning app)

Here it comes! The first (well, for some of you) big presentation.

Here is the schedule:

Tuesday, April 29:

Colin Nimer, Southern Utah University
Ryan Sucy, University of Maine Farmington
Dara Fillmore, University of Wisconsin-Superior

1)      Introduce yourself and your school
2)      Introduce your site (an overview of key sections, with attention to 1-2 parts/sections/features that you are particularly proud of)
3)      Brief discussion of 1-3 particular challenges or great discoveries related to the research for your campus/town.  [Let’s leave the technology discussions for the COPLAC/CUR presentations.]
4)      Overarching summary narrative of your school and your town’s experiences during the 1914-1919 era.

Remember that Dr. McClurken or Dr. Pearson will need to share the content and navigate your site for you. Therefore, please send us the order in which you would like to navigate your site 24 hours in advance of your presentation. 

We will be testing the audio/video for the Voices sections, during today’s class. If the test works, then you will be able to share audio clips in your presentation if you wish.

We will go over these instructions in class today, and of course if you have questions please bring them up.

All the Project Contracts have been posted under that tab above.

You can also get to them from http://course.centuryamerica.org/project-contracts/.

If you there’s a reason you can’t make any of your milestones, please let Dr. Pearson and Dr. McClurken know.

Folks, Chelsea has been busy with drafting software, and she has come up with a few logo drafts that we would like you to look at. Tell us what you think . . . she is also working on a small, rectangular draft with the helmet and upright books that might be used as an icon. Stay tuned . . . But in the meantime, what do you think about these? Which do you like best, and what could be made better?  Here they are: logo drafts

In the last class session we also brainstormed some catchy tag lines to incorporate into the logo. Dr. McClurken suggested “One hundred years in the making.” That didn’t garner a lot of enthusiasm. After the class, Dr. Spellman came up with “Campus, Community, and the Great War.” Please throw down any other ideas you may have here, so that we can discuss them in Thursday’s class session.

Hey everybody, check out this story about Christopher Hightower on the Montevallo website. You should all strive to be famous like Christopher! Try to find out how you can get your Marketing/Communications folks to do a similar story about you.

Here are the slugs I’ll be using for your project site, unless you tell me (Prof. McClurken) you want something different.  [So Alisia’s would be http://mcla.centuryamerica.org/ ]

Google Drive — http://drive.google.com

Feedly — http://feedly.com

Maps —http://www.google.com/earth/outreach/tutorials/spreadsheet3.html

Timeline tool — http://timeline.knightlab.com/

If you don’t have a Google account, you should sign up for one before tomorrow’s class.