Author: Digital History – Emily James

TweetThroughout this semester, my group worked on creating a 3-D Tour of the James Monroe Museum. This was my first time working with a museum, and I’m so grateful from the experience. We met with the museum throughout the museum…

TweetThis semester has flown by. At the beginning of this semester, I never imagined that we would reach this point. On Tuesday, we submitted our project. While resizing the images was difficult on the website, we were able to find…

TweetMy group split up the video editing last class. We each took two videos to edit by next class. While I used iMovie before to edit videos, I never used Final Cut. I gave myself time to become better acquainted…

TweetFor the group project we have the Timeline and the StoryMap finished it is matter of integrating the 3-D Tour on the main website along with adding in the hotspot videos. While we are ahead of schedule for the 3-D…

TweetAuthorship In this week’s readings, I learned more about the struggles and obstacles digital historians face as well as the digital history field itself. Specifically, in Leslie Madsen-Brook’s article, Madsen-Brooks focuses on studying sites maintained by the “public” instead of historians. Madsen-Brooks focuses on the word choice these sites use to further show how the […]

TweetWhen I read Tim Herrera’s article, “How to see What the Internet Knows About You (And How to Stop It,”I was horrified with the amount of data sites use to tailor ads to you. The first site I went to allowed me to see what your browser knows the moment you open it. This site […]

TweetI look at a research topic for another history class. I searched “massive resistance” which was a term used by Virginia Governor Byrd’s response to Virginia school integration. The page was last edited on Febuary 21st, specifically the “aftermath” section. This section was added to include recent events in Virginia schools and de facto segregation […]

TweetLast class we discussed editing our project proposals. Mainly, our group needs to work on story-boarding the website. Additionally, we decided to film five objects instead of three to five objects. I have been in contact with Jarod, the head curator at the James Monroe Museum about filming the 3-D tour. We created a Doodle […]

TweetPrior to last class, I never heard of Voyant or Palladio. I have never taken a digital studies course, which now I wish I had. However, historians definitely benefit from using both tools. Voyant is more beginner-friendly since it mostly does the work for you. However, the machine notices words used frequently together or found […]

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