A Symposium organized by the Fine Art Department at
Grande Prairie Regional College
Location: Fine Arts Recital Hall L106
Thursday, November 9, 2008
10:00 - 10:15 Introductory Remarks10:15 - 11:15 Allan Mackay: "Veterans memorial commission"11:30 - 12:30 Edward Bader (Grande Prairie Regional College):"Contested Ground: Galt Gardens and the Lethbridge Cenotaph"12:30 - 1 :00 Break1:00 - 2:15 Dr. Pierre du Prey (Queen's University) :"Allward's Figures and Lutyens's Flags"2:30 - 3:45 Lane Borstad (Grande Prairie Regional College):"The Canadian Memorial at Vimy: Public and Private Response to War"4:00 - 5:00 Dr. Duff Crerar (Grande Prairie Regional College):"Veteran Rage: The Great War in Canadian Memory"5:00 - 6:00 Grande Prairie Regional College, Fine Arts Conservatory GirlChoirDiscussion and Reception6:00 - 7:30 BreakEvening Program in conjunction with GPRC Speakers Series7:30 - 7:45 Grande Prairie Regional College Fine Arts Chorus7:45 - 9:00 Allan Mackay: "Double Bind"
Zotero – The Next-Generation Research Tool
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself.
CHNM Essays
Sending Your Courses into the Blogosphere: An Introduction for “Old People”
T. Mills Kelly
This article originally appeared in the August 2006 issue of NewsNet 46/4 (August 2006): 49-52 and is reprinted here with permission.
Not long ago, one of our graduate students at George Mason University gave me some bad news. During a conversation with undergraduates in a class she teaches, a student told her that email was “just a way to stay in touch with old people.” The other students in the room agreed—you know…old people…like professors.
Scholarly Publishing Guides | Public Knowledge Project
Scholarly Publishing Guides
Establishing and Publishing an Online Peer-Reviewed Journal: Action Plan, Resourcing, and Costs, Dr. Lorna Shapiro (2005).
The findings of an independent analyst, whose work not only highlights the strengths of OJS, but also answers many questions others will have in the early stages of starting a journal, including the critical issues of time, costs, and planning.
Getting Found, Staying Found, Increasing Impact: Enhancing Readership and Preserving Content for OJS Journals, Kevin Stranack (2006).
This document shows OJS publishers how to raise their journal’s profile, and suggests strategies for the preservation of their content.
Starting a new Scholarly Journal in Africa, Kevin Stranack (2006).
Considers the promise, possibilities, issues and technologies involved in starting a new scholarly journal in a developing country setting.
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About the Public Knowledge Project
The Public Knowledge Project is a federally funded research initiative at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University on the west coast of Canada. It seeks to improve the scholarly and public quality of academic research through the development of innovative online environments. PKP has developed free, open source software for the management, publishing, and indexing of journals and conferences. Open Journal Systems and Open Conference Systems increase access to knowledge, improve management, and reduce publishing costs. See Software & Services for demos, downloads, and information about these systems.
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
Full Web Building Tutorials – All Free
At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP.
Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web
This book provides a plainspoken and thorough introduction to the web for historians—teachers and students, archivists and museum curators, professors as well as amateur enthusiasts—who wish to produce online historical work, or to build upon and improve the projects they have already started in this important new medium. It begins with an overview of the different genres of history websites, surveying a range of digital history work that has been created since the beginning of the web. The book then takes the reader step-by-step through planning a project, understanding the technologies involved and how to choose the appropriate ones, designing a site that is both easy-to-use and scholarly, digitizing materials in a way that makes them web-friendly while preserving their historical integrity, and how to reach and respond to an intended audience effectively. It also explores the repercussions of copyright law and fair use for scholars in a digital age, and examines more cutting-edge web techniques involving interactivity, such as sites that use the medium to solicit and collect historical artifacts. Finally, the book provides basic guidance on insuring that the digital history the reader creates will not disappear in a few years.
On this website, we present a free online version of the text.
Omeka is a simple and flexible system for organizations, cultural institutions, and individuals to manage and publish items, collections, and exhibits on the web. Omeka is free and open source. Learn more.
The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) is partnering with the Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) to develop Omeka as a next-generation web publishing platform for museums, historical societies, scholars, collectors, and educators.
Omeka is currently in private beta. If you are interested in getting on the invitation list to download and test Omeka, please email us and we will notify you when there are additional spaces for this testing period.
Center for History and New Media – Tools
Tools
* Zotero
* Syllabus Finder
* Web Scrapbook
* Survey Builder
* Poll Builder
* Scribe
* Tools Center
* CHNM Labs
Best of History Web Sites
Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.
BOHWS has been recommended by The Chronicle of Higher Education, The National Council for the Social Studies, The British Library Net, The New York Public Library, the BBC, Princeton University, — and many others.