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Becoming Digital - My Trusty Bible

My in-laws gave me this Bible on my birthday in 1986. Because it was so compact... and so simple looking (I like things simple), it turned out to be my favorite.From time to time, I would forget about it, but for the most part, it has been a ready reference for me for these 24 years. Every time I think about getting rid of it, well, I just can't do it.My in-laws have even given me really nice replacements, but they stay on the shelf. My first photograph is a thumbnail, at 100x100 pixels. The…See More
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Simple Digital History - Significant US History Textbooks

Using my wife’s digital camera, I photographed the cover and title page from two U.S. History textbooks. My thoughts on this project kept evolving as I worked with it. My original idea was just to remain scalable by continuing to collect and add U.S. History textbooks from the past and present, and I do have a few more books that I could have added to this kind of collection. The more I thought about it, however, I couldn’t help but focus on these two particular books, one published in 1888 and…See More
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Social Studies Tangents

I can’t shake it – I don’t want to do it because it’s too just big to do – I can’t get my arms around it, and I’ll be too old and tired and dead before I can accomplish what needs to be accomplished… but I can’t shake it. I am too small and the work is too huge that needs to be done, but dammit, somebody out there has already started it, and I can at least help move things along a bit, but … it’s big. It’s bureaucracy, it’s tradition, it’s hundreds if not thousands of people’s work… and it’s…See More
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"You may forget but..." What I've Learned from ECI 525

“You may forget butLet me tell youthis: someone insome future timewill think of us.”- Sappho, 6th cent.BCAs a student, I have always taken pride in my writing ability, and before starting this class, I had assumed that it would be no different – wherever my lack of discipline had gotten the better of me so that it was the eleventh hour before beginning my assignments for the week, there was no fear: my writing would save the day. The art of skimming the written word and digesting the gist, just…See More
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Back to Lassiter's Mill - Final Thoughts

As our ECI 525 final assignment, we students are to find an outside area or building to re-purpose for more democratic utililization. For my first assignment, we were to create a soundscape involving local history, and I chose Lassister's Mill and the fire of 1958, re-visiting the site and interviewing my dad John Norkus who had helped fight the fire. I couldn't help but notice, as I have on several subsequent visits, how under-utilized this area is these days. The area is peaceful and…See More
Nov 27, 2009
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Andrew Ferguson is a dope.

Ferguson's review of Horwitz's A Voyage Long and Strange is a hodge-podge of good and evil. Bottom line: is Horwitz's book worth reading or not? That question remains unanswered. After what appear to be some sincere compliments on Horwitz's style, Ferguson then lambasts Horwitz for playing what Ferguson sees as the over-visited revisionist role, but what he does not realize is that, despite the many popular works on revisionist history - Loewen, Zinn, etc. - most people in America are still…See More
Nov 11, 2009
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History Engine - I like it

While reading Torget & Nesbit’s introductory article on the History Engine, I got it, and things I’d read earlier began to connect. When I initially read about this type of inquiry and production in earlier assigned reading, maybe being just too busy, my mind had not really wrapped itself around the concept of how students would be able to access primary sources, explore them, creatively write their own interpretations, and then collaborate with an ever expanding group of “others,” just…See More
Nov 6, 2009
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Davey Crockett at the Alamo - when did he die?

When I was boy, my friends and I were fascinated, thanks in part to Walt Disney and his various mini-series on Daniel Boone, Francis Marion “The Swampfox”, Scarecrow (set in England), and Davey Crockett. We would play all day long in the woods (that are now the Beltline and North Hills, er… excuse me, Midtown), attacking the British, fighting the Japs (no mention of Korea?), and bravely defending the Alamo to our last breath. While an undergrad at State, I learned that Dr. Crisp was exploring…See More
Nov 1, 2009
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Slaves and Cameron

Slavery Assignment.docIn reading my part of the Plantation Letters, I was impressed by the mixture of "it's just business" and humanity shown toward the slaves; it left me with very strange feelings about the entire institution of slavery. It wasn't split evenly between either between on-site overseer and absentee owner as one might…See More
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Becoming Digital - My Trusty Bible

My in-laws gave me this Bible on my birthday in 1986. Because it was so compact... and so simple looking (I like things simple), it turned out to be my favorite.

From time to time, I would forget about it, but for the most part, it has been a ready reference for me for these 24 years. Every time I think about getting rid of it, well, I just can't do it.

My in-laws have even given me really…

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Posted on March 10, 2010 at 6:30pm — 4 Comments

Simple Digital History - Significant US History Textbooks

Using my wife’s digital camera, I photographed the cover and title page from two U.S. History textbooks. My thoughts on this project kept evolving as I worked with it. My original idea was just to remain scalable by continuing to collect and add U.S. History textbooks from the past and present, and I do have a few more books that I could have added to this kind of collection. The more I thought about it, however, I couldn’t help but focus on these two particular books, one published in 1888…

Continue

Posted on February 17, 2010 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment

Social Studies Tangents

I can’t shake it – I don’t want to do it because it’s too just big to do – I can’t get my arms around it, and I’ll be too old and tired and dead before I can accomplish what needs to be accomplished… but I can’t shake it. I am too small and the work is too huge that needs to be done, but dammit, somebody out there has already started it, and I can at least help move things along a bit, but … it’s big. It’s bureaucracy, it’s tradition, it’s hundreds if not thousands of people’s work… and it’s… Continue

Posted on December 17, 2009 at 6:00pm

"You may forget but..." What I've Learned from ECI 525

“You may forget but



Let me tell you

this: someone in

some future time

will think of us.”



- Sappho, 6th cent.BC





As a student, I have always taken pride in my writing ability, and before starting this class, I had assumed that it would be no different – wherever my lack of discipline had gotten the better of me so that it was the eleventh hour before beginning my assignments for the week, there was no fear: my writing would save the day. The… Continue

Posted on December 16, 2009 at 6:00am — 1 Comment

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At 2:48pm on September 20, 2009, Jonathan S. List said…
jslist-ncsu.blogspot.com

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At 2:49pm on September 20, 2009, Jonathan S. List said…
Charley, cool soundscape! All you need is some trendy music from a few bands no one has ever heard of and you could be on This American Life! :-)
At 3:19pm on September 20, 2009, Jonathan S. List said…
Cool! I'm glad that you were able to 'get' the story that was going. Did you figure out which of the sounds was stripped from something else?

I struggled with my interpretation of the image; was I reading in my understanding of current politics too much? I don't know enough to know if I am putting my own spin on it.
At 10:55pm on March 19, 2010, Liz Saylor said…
Charley,
I am so sorry!! I just saw this comment!? I don't know how I missed it. Gosh, I really apologize...
I absolutely can help you with the etc. and ephemera projects. I realize that you may have already found someone else to help you by now. Please give me a call if you still need help. I think it's a lot easier and more time efficient to just talk on the phone. My number is 919-412-1985. Call whenever you're free. I will be continuing to complete work tomorrow and Sunday, so it's no bother. Sorry again! ~ Liz

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