Why? English New Media Classroom

http://www.arhu.umd.edu/technology/workshops/english/whynewmediaclassroom.html
Catherine Hays, chays@deans.umd.edu
Chris Higgins, chiggins@deans.umd.edu

 
Powerpoint Presentation- html
Powerpoint Presentation- ppt file

Communication/Collaboration Tools

Sample Web Chat pages
http://www.otal.umd.edu/webchat.html#examples

WebIQ
http://webiq.umd.edu

Web Resources

Poetry
Titanic Operas: A Poet's Corner of Responses to Dickinson's Legacy
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/dickinson/titanic/preface.html

Sky, a poem by Christina Manning
http://www.bornmagazine.com/projects/sky/

other poems from Poems that go
http://www.poemsthatgo.com/links.htm
 

Electronic Text
Renaissance Women Online,
http://www.wwp.brown.edu/texts/rwoentry.html

Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/

Making of America: browse books
http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?page=pagespec&pagename=browse.tpl&cc=moa&c=moa
 

Multimedia Resources
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture, IATH, UVA
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/

Walt Whitman Electronic Archive
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/whitman/
 

Manuscripts
American Memory Manuscripts: American Life Histories
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpastate.html
These life histories were written by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. Typically 2,000-15,000 words in length, the documents consist of drafts and revisions, varying in form from narrative to dialogue to report to case history.

Making of America
Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the
antebellum period through reconstruction.
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/
directly to journals: http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/moajrnl_browse.html


College of ARHU, University of Maryland
Catherine Hays, chays@deans.umd.edu