Technology usage in education has a profound effect on the classroom. Children tend to be more engaged and perhaps even a little more well-versed on how to use technology when incorporated in their education. While there are people in the professional world such as historians and teachers jumping on the bandwagon to promote change in the field …
Author: Lakelyn Wiley
Digital Identity–still in the works
The recent assignment to explore the horrors of digital identity has been an issue that I have been dealing with all semester. After a talk with one of the members of the digital knowledge center, I decided to give “lakelyn wiley” a google and too my surprise I found that my digital identity was nothing like …
Creative Commons and Wikipedia
The Ted talk on Wikipedia was interesting to me as I did not know all of the words that the site does and interestingly, does not do. The fact that they only have a couple of employees and the bulk of the labor is volunteer only is amazing to me. It’s one of the most …
State Marker’s Fantastical Ideas
The resources presented today are very interesting and have an assortment of uses. However, determining how we could implement these tools into our project did require some critical thinking. For text mining, we determined that we could keyword search in Voyant (https://voyant-tools.org/) for historical documents from there find more information on the historical sites that we …
State Markers Group Discussion #2
As a group we looked at Criminal Intent, famous Law Trials, JSTOR, Internet Archive, Residential Schools, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank — we also talked about Aurasma. We agreed that most of the websites were outdated and/or difficult to navigate. We commented on the likeability of Internet Archive and enjoyed the many amenities it had. Lake …
Group Discussion
State Historical Markers Jay, Mili, and I reviewed the digital history projects and went over our thoughts, keeping in mind our course project of plotting State Historical Markers. During our collaboration, we discussed the usability of the site we will be creating. Considering the user functionality of the Omeka website about the Molasses Explosion ( ), we all …
Digital History Projects Review
Learning about historical events and trends via books and research is fine and effective, but reviewing the same information on interactive interfaces gives the same information (with a face-lift). The sites reviewed were all, for the most part, user-friendly and attractive projects that reached the goal that they had in mind. In particular, I enjoyed …
Why am I here?
I decided to join digital history because the title of the course was different from that of other history courses that I typically see on Banner. After ‘googling’ digital history, I decided that HIST 428 would be a great addition to my second semester here. As a history major, I do enjoy research and writing …