Author: HIST428 – My Odyssey

Last week of class. Our project is and turned in. Now we just need to edit the suggestions made by our professor and present at the Student Symposium tomorrow. Some of the comments by the professor are to clarify certain things, such as how to search t…

We are coming to our last week of classes. This week we gave our final presentation of our project to our class. Later that day, we were able to batch upload all of the index and up to page 479 of the register. Our progress has come a long way and now all we need Read More

Almost done with this semester, only 2 more weeks. In class on Tuesday, we worked with the Google Chrome extension, Hypothesis. Hypothesis allows user to annotate webpages. It is very useful when an author or other web user wants feedback on their sites if they are working on updating or any other sort of editing. Read More

We are less than a month away from completion of the Cemetery project and it is coming along very nicely. Our group has figured out naming conventions, the spreadsheet format, inclusion of grave numbers, landmarks for the GoogleMap, and thumbnails for the images to upload onto Omeka, We have made a great amount of progress Read More

As we get further and further into the digital era, we have new problems that arise. Some of the issues that arise is with all these digital tools that help the user, such as Zotero, which formats cited sources automatically. Zotero is very helpful for putting the information down, however you must be careful to Read More

My digital portfolio can be found by clicking on the link to my  C.V. It is still under editing because I am still building my digital identity and working on various projects. I first started this site for a class and I was not sure what I would use my sites for, but I have continuously Read More

Creating a digital identity is hard at first because you may not have a lot of works to show off. I looked at a few blogs and articles that focused on creating a digital identity and they all pointed out various thoughts to consider. I looked at the site of Jessica Reingold, who has such Read More

We are back in class after a nice spring break. We met on Tuesday to talk more about our project. We discussed how we wanted to enter the names in the row description, which was copying and pasting them from the registrar spreadsheet in the format of first name and then last name. At first Read More

This week we looked at copyright and protecting one’s digital work. It is always important to give credit where credit is due that way no one is hurt and no illegal actions occurred. Creative Commons is a free network that allows users to legally share internet sites and provides free  copyright licenses for creators to have Read More

My group and I discussed our Group Contracts and one of the big things we needed to decide on was our naming conventions. We originally had it as page number, underscore and then running number (Page #_running number), but now we have established that we will have FRSP underscore 7700 as the start of the Read More