Making History Podcast » links http://www.makinghistorypodcast.com Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:06:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Inspiration Points: Links http://www.makinghistorypodcast.com/2008/11/24/inspiration-points-links/ http://www.makinghistorypodcast.com/2008/11/24/inspiration-points-links/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:19:44 +0000 Jana Remy http://makinghistorypodcast.wordpress.com/?p=137 Continue reading →]]>
  • An interactive view of the 1918 flu pandemic.  Scrolling through this site is a painless way to learn about the impact of the disease, yet I found myself wondering if there could’ve have been graphical representations showing the scope of influenza to augment the vintage images and news accounts.  Also, the site navigation moved a bit too slowly to be highly engaging.  This vid about XDR-TB was far more emotionally effective even though it offers scant information about the disease itself.
  • A tribute to Studs Terkel (a hero of mine) and a challenge for everyman to become an oral historian.
  • I haven’t yet tested Zotero 1.5, but I’m thrilled about the promise of its sync feature as I weary of  transferring zotero files from my research laptop (an ASUS UMPC) to my home computer.
  • My teenage kids think Sarah Vowell is far more entertaining than any of the other historian podcasters they’ve listened to (including, of course, their Mom).  So we’ll be tuning in to Sarah’s take on the Puritans this week as we bake our pumpkin pies (from scratch, of course, because there’s nothing better than a homemade pumpkin pie!)
    • ]]>     http://www.makinghistorypodcast.com/2008/11/24/inspiration-points-links/feed/ 0     No More Notecards: Links to web resources http://www.makinghistorypodcast.com/2008/10/07/no-more-notecards-links-to-web-resources/ http://www.makinghistorypodcast.com/2008/10/07/no-more-notecards-links-to-web-resources/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:57:14 +0000 Jana Remy http://makinghistorypodcast.wordpress.com/?p=106 Continue reading →]]> A list of links for my “No More Notecards” workshop.

    Zotero:
    ~Adding items into a collection and organizing sources
    ~Creating a bibliography via Word or GoogleDocs
    ~Managing your collection through tags
    ~troubleshooting
    ~Endnote file transfer (in litigation)

    Scrivener (for Mac):
    ~intro vid
    ~other Mac resources:DEVONthink
    ~similar PC software

    Project Management:
    ~Hiveminder/GCal
    ~Remember the Milk (Also works with GCal)

    UPDATE:
    Some resources that were suggested during the workshop:

    • iGoogle, as a portal to all of the diverse Google applications including GoogleBook, GoogleScholar, GooglePatent, etc
    • Mind Mapping software (H/T Stephen Franklin), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mind_mapping_software, lists as external refs, Innovation Tools: Independent site dedicated to introducing accelerated learning tools. It includes a survey of Mind Mapping software use. Mind-mapping.org, independent site claiming to have every piece of mind mapping software in its list of over 178 packages. It also includes on-line mind mapping services, software for concept mapping and outlining and a historical record of past software in these categories.

    Note: workshop hosted by Humanitech, which is also a sponsor of the Making History Podcast

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