Greetings! The Western History Association’s Technology Committee members are seeking proposals for a roster of presentations for their “Six-Shooters” lightning round session to be held at the WHA’s 54rd Annual Conference in Newport Beach, CA on Thursday October 16, 2014 from 2:30-4:00 PM. Each of the 8 or so presenters will have 6 minutes and no more than 6 PowerPoint slides to share topics with a significant digital history component related to research, teaching, or public history initiatives. Before the conference, each confirmed participant will post a brief paragraph to the WHA Digital Frontiers blog outlining what they plan to present. Check this space for updates and feel free to contact Doug Seefeldt via email at wdseefeldt [AT] bsu [DOT] edu if you would like to like to be considered to participate in this alternative-format session.
Inaugural “Six-Shooters” Lightning Round Session
On Saturday October 12, 2013 seven presenters participated in the inaugural “Six-Shooters” session from 2:30-4:00 PM in the Finger Rock III room at the Westin La Paloma Resort & Spa in Tucson, AZ. This session, sponsored by the WHA Technology Committee, utilizes a lightning round format that limits each presentation to six minutes and six slides. The session was chaired by Douglas Seefeldt, the committee chair, and the presenters were:
- Jason Heppler, Stanford U., “Spatial History and the Western Past”
- Leslie Working, U. Nebraska-Lincoln, “Visualizing Data with Open Source Tools”
- Sharon Kilzer, Theodore Roosevelt Center, The Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library”
- Jeremy Johnston, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, “The Papers of William F. Cody”
- Douglas Seefeldt, Ball State University, “Cody Studies Digital Research Platform”
- Larry Cebula, Eastern Washington U./Washington State Archives, “Using Mobile Interpretation to Strengthen Preservation Communities”
- J. Wendel Cox, “Shifted Research”
Do you use digital tools in your research, teaching, or public history profession? If so, and you are willing to share your thoughts and experiences with other WHA conference attendees at our 2014 meeting, please contact Doug Seefeldt: wdseefeldt [AT] bsu [DOT] edu
See you in Tucson!
Greetings! As the 53rd Annual Conference of the Western History Association approaches the Technology Committee members are busy putting together a roster for the inaugural “Six-Shooters” lightning round session on Saturday 10/12 from 2:30-4:00 PM. Each of the 8-10 presenters will have 6 minutes and no more than 6 PowerPoint slides to share topics with a significant digital history component related to research, teaching, or public history. Pretty wide open. Before the conference, each confirmed participant will post a brief paragraph to the WHA Digital Frontiers blog outlining what they are planning to present. Check this space for updates and feel free to contact Doug Seefeldt via email [wdseefeldt AT bsu.edu] if you would like to participate in this exciting session.
Looking forward to Denver!
We are pleased to welcome you back to the blog “WHA Digital Frontiers,” created to support the Western History Association’s annual Digital History Workshop, planned this year for Friday, October 5, 2012 (1:00-3:30 PM) in the Gates Conference Room on the 5th floor of the Denver Public Library in Denver, CO (the WHA conference program includes a general description of the digital history workshop along with walking directions from the Hyatt to the DPL on p. 28).
The workshop is an opportunity for WHA members interested in the ways digital technologies can be (and are being) used in the classroom, in public history, and in research, to gather virtually here on the blog and in person at the WHA Conference to discuss interests, concerns, and ideas.
This year the Digital History Workshop is being facilitated by J. Wendel Cox, Ph.D., Senior Special Collection Librarian, Western History and Genealogy, Denver Public Library and will include three speakers. Wendel will provide details on the speakers and their topics in a separate post.
Whether tech guru or newbie, anyone interested in hearing about/discussing the increasingly significant roles digital technologies play in contemporary scholarship, teaching, and public history is welcome to contribute. We will have free wireless in the workshop so bring your laptop or other device to click along.
This blog is a place for potential attendees to begin the conversations and exchanges of ideas that they hope to continue in the workshop; we also ask contributors to share those resources, tools, examples of digital scholarship, online exhibits, etc., that they have found noteworthy or helpful in their own work either before or after the workshop.
We’ll see you in Denver!
Douglas Seefeldt
Chair, WHA Technology Committee
Welcome Back!
We are pleased to welcome you back to the blog “WHA Digital Frontiers,” created to support the Western History Association’s annual Digital History Workshop, planned for Saturday, October 15, 2011 (4:00-5:30 PM) in Oakland, CA.
The workshop is an opportunity for WHA members interested in the ways digital technologies can be (and are being) used in the classroom, in public history, and in research, to gather virtually here on the blog and in person at the WHA Conference to discuss interests, concerns, and ideas. This year the conversations will be led by:
- Research: Francis Flavin, Office of the Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs, United States Department of Interior
- Public History: J. Wendel Cox, Senior Special Collection Librarian, Denver Public Library
- Teaching: Leslie Working, Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Whether tech guru or newbie, anyone interested in hearing about/discussing the increasingly significant roles digital technologies play in contemporary scholarship, teaching, and public history is welcome to contribute.
This blog is a place for potential attendees to begin the conversations and exchanges of ideas that they hope to continue in the workshop; we also ask contributors to share those resources, tools, examples of digital scholarship, online exhibits, etc., that they have found noteworthy or helpful in their own work either before or after the workshop.
We’ll see you in Oakland!
Digital Frontiers Workshop Twitter Hashtag: DFWHA2010
Whether you are planning to attending the free Digital Frontiers digital history workshop on Thursday 10/14 from 3:00-4:30, or are just interested in lurking, we encourage you to visit at the blog before, during, and after the conference. If you are attending the WHA conference, there is no registration fee for this workshop and wireless access for the session will be free for participants thanks to our co-sponsors, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of History and the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. If you will not be at Lake Tahoe, follow the workshop on Twitter with the hashtag: DFWHA2010
We look forward to hearing from you online and seeing you at Lake Tahoe!
Digital History Goes Mainstream
Western historians interested in digital history will find the topics and themes listed on the call for papers for the 2010 American Association for History and Computing of great interest:
Digital History Goes Mainstream: The Role of Digital Technologies in Historical Scholarship, Teaching, and Society
November 5-7th George Mason University, Fairfax Virginia
Proposals due: September 10th
Any of these topics and themes are fair game for discussion in this blog and in our workshop at the WHA meeting in Nevada in October.
Digital Frontiers: A WHA Digital History Blog 