CUIN 6397 - Practicum in IT, Summer 2006


In Class 4 (on June 20th), we participated in an oral history workshop that included a discussion by UH history professor, Dr. Joe Pratt. Dr. Pratt is the editor of the Houston Review of History and Culture, and workshop participants received two issues of this journal.

For this discussion, you are being asked to read at least one article in the journal that you feel has some relationship to the work you're doing on the Dawn Installation project.

Then, post a comment in which you describe the material you read (be sure to include the name of the article you selected, which issue it was in, who wrote it, what the main themes were, etc.) and discuss how what you learned from the article might be used in the design and development of the project component you are working on this summer.

Pachyderm continued...6.21.06

Hello everyone,

Thank you all for your comments re. Pachyderm issues etc. Please keep posting about Pachyderm.

Also, I wanted to let you know that it is best to write your text in MS Word or Wordpad, then cut/copy and paste it into Pachyderm templates. Do not author text in Pachyderm because you might lose it when previewing. This warning was just given to me by one of the Pachyderm developers. Some people have been having problems with this.

We are working on the issue of not being able to preview Pachyderm templates from the CITE lab. We are not sure yet why this is happening, and I will let you know when I find out. Until then, if you are working on your Pachyderm templates from the school, click on the "publish" button rather than the "preview" button to see your work. It just takes a little longer to publish the templates than preview them.

If you have any questions about any of this please reply to this post or email me. Thank you!!!!

Pachyderm Issues

Hi everyone,

I am posting to find out how you are all doing with using Pachyderm. Has anyone had problems previewing their pages from home?

I spoke to Rachel (my contact who is helping us with Pachyderm) and she wasn't sure why the majority of the class wasn't able to preview their Pachyderm pages last Tuesday night. She said the previewing problem is random. All templates have that problem from time to time.

One option is to "publish" the page, which is an option on your templates. That way you will be able to see what you have authored in Pachyderm.

Please reply to this messages with any information about how you are doing with using Pachyderm. Your feedback will be helpful for me so that I can keep relaying it back to Rachel.

Thank you!
anne

CUIN 6397 - Practicum in IT, Summer 2006



Oral History and Blog Assignment

In Class 4 (on June 20th), we will be participating in an oral history workshop. We would like you to be familiar with the concept of oral history before you come to class on the 20th. Please research the term "oral history" however you would like and post a comment that includes:

1. A definition of oral history

2. Answer the question: Who is the oral historian in your family or what personal experience you have with oral history? For example, Brian's personal experience with oral history was his grandma, who was a first generation immigrant from Lithuania who could not read or write english. Her contribution to the family's legacy was many stories of the struggles she went through and how there was once a town in Lithuania that was the origin of the Plankis family name and it was a thriving town until Germany invaded in 1915 in WWI and razed it to the ground.

3. One or more of the following:

Links to additional resources (such as websites, titles of books, movies, journal articles, etc.) that you found describing oral history that other people can examine.

Before you post your comment on the blog, be sure to read other people's comments to make sure you are not posting a duplicate resource.

Welcome to the Dawn Installation at Project Row Houses Blog. The Dawn Installation Project is being led by documentary filmmaker and educator, Carroll Parrott Blue, author of The Dawn At My Back: A Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing, published in 2003.

This 2006 initiative is a collaborative effort between Project Row Houses, the University of Houston and other community partners and the blog will be used to discuss a variety of issues, including, but not limited to:

1. the history of Project Row Houses
2. the devolpment of a multimedia walking tour of Houston's Third Ward
3. the demise and rebirth of urban neighborhoods
4. the use of digital storytelling to document the history residents of the Third Ward
5. an exploration of Houston's rich art and music heritage and its influence on today's culture
6. how students and teachers can use these materials in their classrooms