Here are my updated videos. Apparently I can't post my audio only stops, I'll try to find a way to post those later. Hope you like 'em!
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Videos
Howdy,
I worked up these videos for my project I'm working on. Feedback would be appreciated. Thanks.
I worked up these videos for my project I'm working on. Feedback would be appreciated. Thanks.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Spokane Historical Audio
When I recorded the sound for my audio podcasts I used this website for audio clips.
www.freesound.org
Unfortunately you have to register as a user on the website but after that it works quite well.
- Zach
www.freesound.org
Unfortunately you have to register as a user on the website but after that it works quite well.
- Zach
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Zotero Revisited.
Step 1: Sync Zotero Firefox plugin with Zotero online acct.
Step 2: Lookup correct Chicago Manual of Style for newspaper articles:
Article in a newspaper or popular magazine
Newspaper and magazine articles may be cited in running text (“As Sheryl Stolberg and Robert Pear noted in a New York Times article on February 27, 2010, . . .”) instead of in a note, and they are commonly omitted from a bibliography. The following examples show the more formal versions of the citations. If you consulted the article online, include a URL; include an access date only if your publisher or discipline requires one. If no author is identified, begin the citation with the article title.
1. Daniel Mendelsohn, “But Enough about Me,” New Yorker, January 25, 2010, 68.
2. Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Robert Pear, “Wary Centrists Posing Challenge in Health Care Vote,” New York Times, February 27, 2010, accessed February 28, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/us/politics/28health.html.
3. Mendelsohn, “But Enough about Me,” 69.
4. Stolberg and Pear, “Wary Centrists.”
Mendelsohn, Daniel. “But Enough about Me.” New Yorker, January 25, 2010.
Stolberg, Sheryl Gay, and Robert Pear. “Wary Centrists Posing Challenge in Health Care Vote.” New York Times, February 27, 2010. Accessed February 28, 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/us/politics/28health.html.
FROM http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html
Step 3: So Zotero will add the ‘Short Title’ instead of the name of the publication. The name of the publication is the title now, if I can change that field, that should work… Also Zotero is not adding the date, or URL of the citation…..
Step 4: Ensure Zotero preferences within Word are set for ‘Chicago – Full Note’ this includes more of the information I’m looking for.
Step 5: Replace ALL URLs in Zotero with shortened URLs for the purpose of this paper, to avoid epicly long URL addresses in your bibliography. Also add titles to the Gnews articles and change the publication so that it recognizes the publication is S-R or SDC. See the ‘Killed in Fall of Two Stories’ Zotero entry for an example of what is working.
Step 6: Spend more time indexing Zotero as you research so that I don’t have to do this all at once.
Thankfully Zotero did work for me, however the indexing of Zotero was not exactly what I wanted and I had to go back in and re-input basically every Zotero entry into my research. Bummer. The idea of Zotero is good…. Maybe with more practice it won’t be evil.
Step 2: Lookup correct Chicago Manual of Style for newspaper articles:
Article in a newspaper or popular magazine
Newspaper and magazine articles may be cited in running text (“As Sheryl Stolberg and Robert Pear noted in a New York Times article on February 27, 2010, . . .”) instead of in a note, and they are commonly omitted from a bibliography. The following examples show the more formal versions of the citations. If you consulted the article online, include a URL; include an access date only if your publisher or discipline requires one. If no author is identified, begin the citation with the article title.
1. Daniel Mendelsohn, “But Enough about Me,” New Yorker, January 25, 2010, 68.
2. Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Robert Pear, “Wary Centrists Posing Challenge in Health Care Vote,” New York Times, February 27, 2010, accessed February 28, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/us/politics/28health.html.
3. Mendelsohn, “But Enough about Me,” 69.
4. Stolberg and Pear, “Wary Centrists.”
Mendelsohn, Daniel. “But Enough about Me.” New Yorker, January 25, 2010.
Stolberg, Sheryl Gay, and Robert Pear. “Wary Centrists Posing Challenge in Health Care Vote.” New York Times, February 27, 2010. Accessed February 28, 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/us/politics/28health.html.
FROM http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html
Step 3: So Zotero will add the ‘Short Title’ instead of the name of the publication. The name of the publication is the title now, if I can change that field, that should work… Also Zotero is not adding the date, or URL of the citation…..
Step 4: Ensure Zotero preferences within Word are set for ‘Chicago – Full Note’ this includes more of the information I’m looking for.
Step 5: Replace ALL URLs in Zotero with shortened URLs for the purpose of this paper, to avoid epicly long URL addresses in your bibliography. Also add titles to the Gnews articles and change the publication so that it recognizes the publication is S-R or SDC. See the ‘Killed in Fall of Two Stories’ Zotero entry for an example of what is working.
Step 6: Spend more time indexing Zotero as you research so that I don’t have to do this all at once.
Thankfully Zotero did work for me, however the indexing of Zotero was not exactly what I wanted and I had to go back in and re-input basically every Zotero entry into my research. Bummer. The idea of Zotero is good…. Maybe with more practice it won’t be evil.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Zotero
So I'm working with Zotero (firefox and word for mac) to create an annotated bibliography for my Spokane Historical stops. This seems like it should be painless.....
However the indexing for my Google News articles is incorrect and my footnote in Word reads:
“Spokane Daily Chronicle - Google News Archive Search.”
No good. I'll fight with the software and find a solution. As soon as I do I'll post it here and explain why I did what I did. Stay tuned....
However the indexing for my Google News articles is incorrect and my footnote in Word reads:
“Spokane Daily Chronicle - Google News Archive Search.”
No good. I'll fight with the software and find a solution. As soon as I do I'll post it here and explain why I did what I did. Stay tuned....
Friday, May 4, 2012
Travel Grants
To whom it may concern,
I'm a MA student at Eastern Washington University and i'm trying to go on a cultural exchange to Cuba in December. I'm searching out travel grants and other forms of funding so that I am able to attend this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I am seeking out any and all forms of grants to help fund this. Below I have attached my preliminary research prospectus for the trip, if you know of any travel grants that I might qualify for, please leave them in the comments or send them to my twitter account @ZacharyWnek. Thank you for your time.
- Zach Wnek
My plan in traveling to Cuba is to examine the presentation of public history and compare it to the American presentation of public history. I am hoping to examine how the presentation of history differs in Cuba, since the state controls the media and presumably the presentation of history. I am hoping to look at Cuban history broadly looking at their National Parks, historic walks or landscapes, and Cuban culture by taking in a baseball game. By looking at these factors and others I'm hoping to put together a picture of Cuban public history which I will be sharing with everyone on my blog and in other venues by request. Upon return from Cuba I plan on comparing the presentation of Cuban history to how American history is presented. I know that I'm using some broad strokes here saying that the presentation of American history is uniform, I assure you it is not. However I am hoping to use fairly standard models of American interpretation of history seen commonly across the United States as a model, acknowledging that the field of American historical interpretation is constantly changing.
I'm a MA student at Eastern Washington University and i'm trying to go on a cultural exchange to Cuba in December. I'm searching out travel grants and other forms of funding so that I am able to attend this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I am seeking out any and all forms of grants to help fund this. Below I have attached my preliminary research prospectus for the trip, if you know of any travel grants that I might qualify for, please leave them in the comments or send them to my twitter account @ZacharyWnek. Thank you for your time.
- Zach Wnek
My plan in traveling to Cuba is to examine the presentation of public history and compare it to the American presentation of public history. I am hoping to examine how the presentation of history differs in Cuba, since the state controls the media and presumably the presentation of history. I am hoping to look at Cuban history broadly looking at their National Parks, historic walks or landscapes, and Cuban culture by taking in a baseball game. By looking at these factors and others I'm hoping to put together a picture of Cuban public history which I will be sharing with everyone on my blog and in other venues by request. Upon return from Cuba I plan on comparing the presentation of Cuban history to how American history is presented. I know that I'm using some broad strokes here saying that the presentation of American history is uniform, I assure you it is not. However I am hoping to use fairly standard models of American interpretation of history seen commonly across the United States as a model, acknowledging that the field of American historical interpretation is constantly changing.
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