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Timeline and Assignment Ideas 1/19/23

January 18, 2023

There were many good ideas presented by various members of class, there were two I will mention specifically as they were the two I had the most interest in. One is using recording studios to do podcast or video creation. The aforementioned idea is something I would love to become better at, as I have …

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Assignment Endorsements & TimelineJS

January 18, 2023

My two favorite assignments that others proposed include the Propaganda campaign as well as creating Memes/GIFs over some aspect of the Information Age. I think both of these would be really fun to create, and both projects could be designated as a group project or individual work. One assignment I […]

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Endorsement and Proposal

January 18, 2023

Of the different assignments that people proposed, I would have to say that helping with the digital site for the alumni and the propaganda campaign are my favorites. I feel that helping with the digital site would be a great project during the fourth section of the class, as it has us working with modern…

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Timeline JS Work!

January 18, 2023

I made this TimelineJS for my American Foodways class! It talks about important historical developments leading up to the creation of California Rolls and how the roll has changed over time!

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Class Assignments

January 18, 2023

Two assignments suggested by the class that I am strongly interested in are Podcasts and using StoryMap. Both of these platforms I do not have experience in but I think that they would be really fascinating to learn and that they could make the assignments really interesting and interactive. StoryMap would be a great individual …

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Project Ideas

January 18, 2023

A project that I would love to participate in this semester is something about oral histories. I am somewhat familiar with the idea of oral history and traditions, as I’ve touched on it in some preservation classes and Native history courses with Professor Sellers. Another interesting project idea is recreating cave paintings ourselves. I think […]

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Blog #2- 1/19/23

January 18, 2023

TimelineJS ARTH 260R: One Florentine Thing Timeline Favorite Proposed Assignments I would love to do an oral history assignment. My thoughts on how to go about an oral history assignment would be to either lead an oral history interview, maybe look at the guidelines outlined by the Library of Congress on how to conduct said […]

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Favorite Assignments and TimelineJS

January 17, 2023

My two favorite assignments proposed by others are creating an ad for a form of technology and live tweeting historical events. I think it would …

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Assignments for Class!

January 17, 2023

As I was looking through the assignments the two that caught my eye were the podcast and the mini-documentary because I want to do some […]

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Introduction reading

January 17, 2023

January 15th, 2023 The main point that author James Gleick makes is that the tools for spreading information are always evolving. Gleick notes numbers and the alphabet as the earliest technologies used for the spreading of information. When viewing it like this the information age would start with the first forms of communication and grow …

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