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Welcome to H-MMedia

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          H-MMedia makes its debut at a critical juncture in the
evolution of technology in higher education.  A growing number of
humanists are starting to take advantage of various products coming
on to the market (at affordable prices) that allow for much greater
use of multimedia for teaching (in and out of the classroom) and
research.   In the last few years historians and curators and
literary critics have started to experiment with CD/ROMs,
presentation and authoring software, scanners, laser disks, the
Internet, etc..  The pace to technological change shows no sign of
slowing down.  Not far down the track we can spot "distance
learning" and "virtual reality".

          H-MMedia is edited by Paula Petrik of the University of
Maine (Petrik@maine.maine.edu), Jack Reynolds of the University of
Texas at San Antonio (jreynold@lonestar.utsa.edu) and James Wilson
(wilsonjw@jmu.edu) of James Madison University.   H-MMedia has an
editorial board broadly representative of the state of scholarship.


1. H-MMEDIA FEATURES

            H-MMEDIA addresses humanists seeking to keep pace with
technological change.  It provides a space for widely dispersed
pioneers in using the technology to meet, compare notes, exchange
materials, and discuss applications.  It is hoped that these
dialogues will lead to joint ventures and expedite the development
of additional materials.  H-MMEDIA offers reviews of hardware and
software, and keeps its readers apprized of informative articles in
other publications (electronic and otherwise).  As with other
listservs of its kind, it publicizes workshops, calls for papers
and grant opportunities.

          Michigan State University has catalogued much of the
material appearing on the list.  Previously posted announcements or
discussions can be accessed through the MSU gopher.


2. CONTRIBUTIONS TO H-MMEDIA:

          Contributions can be short questions or long documents.
Please sign your name and email address to each contribution (we
will add the name/address otherwise).  To send them, use one of the
following:

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how).  Please do NOT send binary files or uunencoded Macintosh
files.


3. A MODERATED LIST

H-MMedia is edited to filter out extraneous messages (like requests
for subscription) and items that do not belong on H-MMedia.  They
may belong somewhere else, or in the judgment of the editors they
do not aid the scholarly dialogue.  The editor will not alter the
meaning of a message, but will, if necessary, add name and
e-address and modify the subject line of a post.

The mailing addresses of the editors are:

     H-MMedia c/o Jack Reynolds            FAX: 210-691-5728
     Division of Behavioral and           PHONE: 210-691-5708
       Cultural Sciences
     The University of Texas at San Antonio
     San Antonio, TX 78249

or:

     H-MMedia c/o Paula Petrik            FAX: (207) 581-1947
     Department of History                PHONE: (207) 581-1958
     7 North Stevens Hall
     University of Maine
     Orono, ME 04469


or:

     H-MMedia c/o James Wilson             FAX: 703-568-2761
     Dept. of Computer Science             PHONE: 703-568-2778
     James Madison University
     Harrisonburg, VA  22807




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5. H-MMedia FILESERVER, GOPHER, AND WWW CONNECTION:

          The H-MMedia fileserver stores various documents of
interest: bibliographies, book and article reviews, announcements,
teaching materials, and descriptions of tools, techniques, and
computer software and hardware, plus the weekly files of messages.
          Contributions to the archive are welcome, and should be
sent as files to "h-mmedia@msu.edu".

          To obtain a description of the available documents,
together with an explanation how to order them, send a note to
"listserv@msu.edu" with the following command:
     Index h-mmedia
To obtain a specific document, send Listserv the command
     GET filename filetype
Thus, to obtain this document (entitled "H-MMedia Welcome")
from the fileserver, send a note to "listserv@msu.edu" with the
command
     GET H-MMedia Welcome


6. H-MMedia EDITORIAL BOARD
Edward L. Ayers, University of Virginia:
  ela@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Kenneth Arnold, New Century Communications: century@panix.com
Vickie Banks, Michigan State U.: vbanks@hs1.hst.msu.edu
Terrence Finnegan, William Paterson College:
  finnegan%ncsa.uiuc.edu
Jeff Finlay, New York University: FINLAY_J@spcvxa.spc.edu
Heather Goodall, University of Technology, Sydney:
  H.Goodall@uts.edu.au
Arlene Grandt, D. C. Heath: AGRANDT@CCMAIL.EO.RAY.COM
Howard Green, New Jersey Historical Commission:
  hlgreen@pilot.njin.net
Skip Knox, Boise State University: ELKNOX@topgun.idbsu.edu
Mark Kornbluh, Michigan State University: mark@hs1.hst.msu.edu.
Steven Mintz, University of Houston: SMintz@UH.EDU.
James Oberly, U. of Wisconsin--Eau Claire:
  JOBERLY@CNSXAX.UWEC.EDU
Martin Raish, Binghamton University:
MRAISH@BINGVMB.cc.binghamton.edu
Jan Reiff, U. of California at Los Angeles:
   reiff@nicco.sscnet.ucla.edu
John Saillant, Brown University:
  Saillant%brownvm.bitnet@wuvmd.wustl.edu
Ron Smallwood, Northern Lights College: ronald_smallwood@sfu.ca


7. H-NET: HUMANITIES  ON-LINE
          H-Net is an international initiative to assist humanists
to go on-line, using their personal computers. It operates daily
newsletters for humanists, edited by some 120 scholars in North
America, Europe, and the Pacific.  H-Net has financial support from
the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is hosted by the
University of Illinois-Chicago and Michigan State University.
          H-Net sponsors over 50 electronic discussion groups or
"lists" by and for professional scholars in the humanities and
social sciences.  Currently our lists enroll 20,000 subscribers in
54 countries.  One or more scholars edit each list, assisted by a
board of editors.  The goals of the H-NET lists are to enable
scholars to easily communicate current research and teaching
interests;  to discuss new approaches, methods and tools of
analysis; to share information on electronic databases; and to test
new ideas and share comments on current historiography.  Each list
is especially interested in methods of teaching in diverse
settings. The lists feature dialogues in the discipline. They
publish book reviews, job announcements, syllabi, course outlines,
class handouts, bibliographies, listings of new sources, guides to
online library catalogs and archives, and reports on new software,
datasets and cd-roms. Subscribers write in with questions,
comments, and reports, and sometimes with mini-essays of a page or
two.
          Unquiries concerning  book reviews should be directed to
Professor Mark Kornbluh, Dept of History, Michigan State U., East
Lansing, MI 48224. (517) 355-9300, fax = (517) 353-5599   Internet
= "hbooks@hs1.hst.msu.edu".
          H-Net operates 2-day training workshops for humanities
faculty on their campuses, and one-day workshops for NEH Summer
Institutes for College Faculty. Interested college departments
should contact H-NET's Executive Director, Richard Jensen
(professor of history, U of Illinois - Chicago), at (615) 552-9923,
fax = (615) 572-1024  email = "Richard.Jensen@uicvm.uic.edu".

   C. H-Net Lists in Operation:
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      1. H-Albion     British and Irish history
      2. H-AmStdy     American Studies
      3. H-AntiS      Antisemitism
      4. H-Asia       Asian History
      5. H-CivWar     US Civil War
      6. H-Demog      demographic history
      7. H-Diplo      diplomatic history, international affairs
      8. H-Ethnic     ethnic & immigration history
      9. H-Film       scholarly studies & uses of media
     10. H-German     German history
     11. H-Grad       for graduate students only
     12. H-Ideas      intellectual history
     13. H-Italy      Italian history and culture
     14. H-Judaic     Judaica, Jewish History
     15. H-Labor      labor history
     16. H-LatAm      Latin American history
     17. H-Law        legal and constitutional history
     18. H-Pol        US political history
     19. H-PCAACA     Popular Culture Assoc. & American Culture
                        Assoc
     20. H-Rhetor     history of rhetoric & communications
     21. H-Rural      rural and agricultural history
     22. H-Russia     Russian history
     23. H-SHGAPE     US Gilded Age & Progressive Era
     24. H-South      US South
     25. H-State      welfare state; "putting state back in"
     26. H-Teach      teaching college history
     27. H-Urban      urban history
     28. H-West       US West, frontiers
     29. H-Women      women's history
     30. HOLOCAUS     Holocaust studies
     31. IEAHCnet     colonial; 17-18 century Americas

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     32. H-Business     business history
     33. DATABASES      design & management of historial databases
     34. EconHist       economic history
     35. ECONHIST.TEACH teaching economic history
     36. EconHist.Macro macroeconomic history, business cycles

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     37. H-High-S    teaching high school history/social studies
     38. H-Mac       Macintosh users
     39. H-MMedia    high tech teaching; multimedia; cd-rom
     40. H-Survey    teaching US Survey
     41. H-W-Civ     teaching Western Civ
     42. H-World     World History

         For this list, send subscribe to "LISTSERV@purccvm.bitnet"
     43. HABSBURG@purccvm   Austro-Hungarian Empire

              Planning stage: (fall 1994) [do not subscribe yet]
     44. H-Africa  African History
     45. H-Canada  Canadian studies
      46. H-CLC     comparative literature & computing
     47. H-France  French History
     48. H-Japan   Japanese history & culture
     49. H-Local   state and local history & museums
     50. H-NZ-OZ   New Zealand & Australian history
     51. H-T-Amst  teaching American Studies
     52. H-War     military history

   D. H-Net Gophers:
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