Digital Humanites

(*I am still trying to learn to use Audacity to edit my oral history recording and then upload it to Vimeo. Once I do that I will post a link to it here.)

I have learned about several tools this semester for documenting culture and history in the digital art form. The skills we have acquired in implementing digital and multimedia projects are very marketable when in the workforce. Whether archiving for historical preservation such as oral histories and folklore or for future analysis we can use free online software like Audacity for recording and editing multi track mixing. Wix.com is for building webpages and the format is very user friendly. Wix.com can be used to showcase the results of any research project. I will use it to consolidate my research on the Perryman family.

The strongest skills I have learned from our class that I will use endlessly are how to identify and cite primary and secondary sources and how to determine if they are considered scholarly and peer reviewed. In addition to this it is very important to know how to locate images that are available to be reused or edited for public use according to the Fair Use laws and how to give credit when borrowing those images.

I am more comfortable with Word Press Blogs, HistoryPin, Storehouse, Youtube, Vimeo and WindowMovieMaker. The guest lectures and hands own opportunities were interesting and creative as were the tours of the OSU-Tulsa archives and the Tulsa City-County Library archives.