Category: Tools
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The Empty Campus: Digital Public History
How my students constructed an oral history archive, digital exhibit, and podcast in one semester chronicling the Fitchburg State experience with Covid-19.
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What’s in my Bag? Campus Visit Spring 2021 Edition
This video is for Jason Scott Smith! My planner (Hobonichi A5) and Notebook – find them here Miloo Ydra Organizer here Miloo Estia (personal items) here (my color not currently available) Miloo Rec Double here Acro 1000 .5 here Mark+ Highlighters here What are your favorite tools this spring? What always goes in your bag?
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Liner Notes Vol. 1, Track 5 – Angela Diaz
This week we go to the archives with historian Angela Diaz! After discussing her favorite tools and time organization, Angela discusses some great tips for approaching archive visits and materials. Check out more about Angela’s work here!
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Liner Notes Vol. 1, Track 4 – Joe Adelman
This week’s track is with Joseph Adelman, a historian at Framingham State University and author of Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763–1789. We discuss our favorite pens (with a strong showing from the No. 2 pencil, this week), organizing space and time with kids at home during the pandemic, and…
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Liner Notes Vol. 1, Track 3 – Eladio Bobadilla
This episode gets deep! Not only do we discuss the importance of having a range of pens, and in particular the magic of the Pilot Friction Erasable pens, (they even come in MARKERS), we also get into how pens reflect the development of our voices as writers. There is so much to think about after…
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Liner Notes Vol. 1, Track 2 – Hilary Green
This week, we talk with historian Hilary Green, whose social media posts about writing, research, reading, and process are so inspiring. In addition to her many publications, she has also has captured research about race, slavery, and memory at the University of Alabama in the Hallowed Grounds project. Her book, Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools…
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Liner Notes Vol. 1: Track 1 – Megan Kate Nelson
In this first episode of Liner Notes, we talk with author and historian Megan Kate Nelson. We discuss the merits of the blue BIC Cristal pen and florescent yellow Sharpie highlighter, writing during a pandemic, and the personalized process of finding one’s writing structures and routines. In the show, we make reference to John Hughes’…
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The History Mixtapes: Introducing Liner Notes!
Announcing that my video podcast (with an audio version) will launch Friday, February 19, 2021! I’ve taken a structured approach to the podcast around three central questions. What’s in your pen case? With this question, I’m asking guests to highlight three of their go-to writing, editing, teaching, or organization tools. Everyone has those things that…
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My Sticky-Note Outlining Process
I’ve been posting on Twitter randomly recently about my process while outlining a couple of new chapters. I’ll elaborate and make it clearer what is happening. I wrote a whole thread about this, then accidentally deleted it. A blog post is better, anyways. As I’m researching, writing, I often make notes on stickies about ideas…
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A Podcast Plan
ORGANIZE, verb. (transitive) To arrange in working order. ORGANIZE, verb. (transitive) To constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize. ORGANIZE, verb. (transitive) To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; —…
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