Unit 2: Introduction

The Introduction given by Roy Rosenzwieg in his book Digital History was very well put together.  The ideas that he laid out put the entire book into an easy layout.  It was really interesting to me that he addressed the seven qualities of digital media but also talked about the five dangers or hazards as well.  That makes me want to read his material even more.  Each of these components are something that I have thought about and agree with.  If he would not have addressed the dangers right up front I think his reliability would have been in question to me.  As a teacher I believe a lot of people and students tend to fall into the dangers very easy and if we can educate people on these dangers the digital history can grow.                                                                                                                                       

My plan is to produce a final project that will create and develop an online lecture on World history 1945 through 2000.  This time period has a lot of information online and in creating this online lecture it will coordinate and combine some of the most useful information available.  Many times when putting together a lecture series it is hard to weed through the abundance of material available and it can be easy to get lost in gathering material.  This lecture project will be easy for other teachers and students to work through on their own, as well as accurate and reliable. 

The point of online reading is to present information that is easily accessible to the masses.  For me online reading works when it is for short, quick information.  I am a person who likes to underline, and ear mark pages so online text are not my favorite.  I also like to go back and review material which is hard to do online.