For a more optimal view of this StoryMap, please visit this link to the ArcGIS site. When I was finishing my master’s degree, I took the maps I used for my thesis and started making a StoryMap with them. Though I didn’t finish it at the time, I kept the project and the data saved, […]
Category: Digital History
I recently joined the project team for American Religious Ecologies as part of my fellowship at RRCHNM. Religious Ecologies was my first choice for projects because of my interest in religion, creating a natural fit as I dove into the work. Religious Ecologies is a project that seeks to digitize over individual schedules of over […]
“While proliferating definitions can be a good offset to gate-keeping, they can also lead to a sense of whiplash for those interested in entering the field.” “The Push and Pull of Digital Humanities: Topic Modeling the ‘What is digital humanities?’ genre” I have always liked that there are no definitions of, or rather, a million […]
Often a complaint about the lack of teaching how to teach – teaching pedagogy – in academic graduate programs gets stated by a professor lamenting their own training. Still, the world doesn’t change much. As the adjunctification of university labor skyrockets and non-tenured professors’ workload increases and innovation in the classroom is out of the […]
After reading Trevor Owen’s book The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation and perusing resources found at NDSA’s Levels of Digital Preservation and The Socio-Technical Sustainability Roadmap (a wonderful resource meant for a team to sit down and go through the modules to assess needs for their project), I have a better idea of what […]
TLDR: I worked a lot on the accessibility of my website using the Wave Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool, though I found the undertaking confusing and will need to work on it longer to implement changes. The goal then would be to continue to have more accessible content as the baseline for my website. I am […]
“The public generally trusts information found in search engines” (38). To fully grapple with and potentially disentangle my thoughts from all of the readings this week I would have to write a longer essay. To save my classmates (and maybe myself?) from the endeavor, I am primarily focused on the monograph assigned this week. Noble’s […]
TLDR: I believe digital storytelling, video games, and other digital content can be very useful for teaching, and that this will actually be ubiquitous eventually, but there are some downsides to discuss. As aways. Twine Project: A Culinary Tour of the 1893 Chicago World Fair. The thought of using video games as an educational tool, […]
My experiences with Omeka before this class were not nonexistent, but it had been awhile. I took a class at Auburn where we had a week on Omeka where a student gave a roundtable tutorial as we all followed along to learn how to add images to a collection and went through all the different […]
Potentially the most important anecdote from my experience with Open Refine over the last few days is this: it took me over twenty minutes to figure out how to split the columns with the dates into two separate ones. Yes, over twenty minutes, though I didn’t time it exactly. My issue was that I continuously […]
