Syllabus Repository -- please contribute (soon!)
Hello Everyone, A year ago we unveiled the first full version of the SIGCIS syllabus repository at http://www.sigcis.org/syllabi. This is intended as a central resource for classes dealing with all aspects of the history of computing. It now features 38 syllabi covering a range of different approaches. If you have taught a course related to the history of computing and your syllabus is not included in the repository (or you have a newer version) then please contribute it to my Ph.D. student assistant, Edward Benoit at eabenoit@gmail.com. Ed can work with you to get them into shape and he will handle the uploading. If possible please send them in the next week or two, as his summer appointment will be finishing at the end of this month. Guidelines: We prefer to receive syllabi as a single attached .PDF or MS Word file as they will be posted as one document. Include as much detail as you feel comfortable sharing discussion questions, readings, notes, etc are all welcome. However if necessary Ed can handle the job of consolidating several files down into a single syllabus. If the syllabus is currently available online please include a URL as well as the attached archival version. Please include in the email an explicit permission to us to post the syllabus online at www.sigcis.org. We will accept this in good faith, but of course will comply with the relevant provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act if contacted by an institution claiming to hold copyright over your syllabus and asking us to remove it. If you are not willing to have us host the syllabus at www.sigcis.org we would still be happy to link to it instead. But links can decay very rapidly. This is particularly true for syllabi. In addition an ever greater proportion of syllabi are hidden inside course management systems and so nobody can see them in the first place. Best wishes, Tom Haigh www.tomandmaria.com/tom
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Thomas Haigh