I’m in the final stages of putting together our syllabus. Hopefully by now you’ve seen the booklist on my faculty webpage [see the list of links on the right]. We’re reading 8 books and using a handful of free software that I think will help you learn about Atlantic history — and historiography! you might want to get started with the downloading process. Here’s that part of the syllabus.
Required Software Tools [all free] and Policies:
1. I require you to subscribe to our class blog and the blogs of the rest of the class members using Google Reader, which is free once you establish a Google account.
2. I require you to maintain a blog for the class. This is where you’ll post your papers and links to other electronic assignments in the class. You can get a free blogs from several services, including Google, but I recommend http://edublogs.org or http://wordpress.com.
3. I require that all documents you submit to me come as electronic links to your Mavspace account. Go to http://mavspace.uta.edu to review the user manual and log in to your account.
4. I require that you use Google Earth, a free software program available from that company once you have an account. http://earth.google.com
5. I require that you use the bibliography manager Zotero [free from http://www.zotero.org]. Zotero, in turn, requires that you use the Firefox web browser. [free from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/]
6. I will post all grades to our WebCT page, which you can access at http://webct.uta.edu
