Digital History

The end of the semester has finally arrived and I’m impressed that I made it. The spring 2018 semester has by far been the most trying, yet I can say with confidence that I am leaving with so much more knowledge than I had in the beginning. I know this is on the digital history …

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We are finally done! This semester, six other class members and I worked on digitizing a 500 page register and creating an interactive map for National Park Service and the Fredericksburg National Cemetery. We created a website through Omeka that contains information about the register, the map, and history of the cemetery. This project was long Read More

One Education professor I had loved one particular phrase and tried to relate everything back to it: Productive Struggle. In mathematics education, productive struggle is fighting with a problem until that one method finally clicks and you say “oh, I get it now”. If only that’s how things actually worked, right? This project has been […]

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…

Okay, I’m going to write out the process of the last two weeks of this project. Ready? aaaaand…. GO! Voiceovers We weren’t able to get nice voiceovers from the Speaking Center, which is fair. Everyone is busy and has their own stuff going on. However, this meant that the artifact videos had to be made […]

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…

I think that the simplest way to describe the changes in digital history over the last 20 years can be summed up in one sentence: “‘Web Site Reviews’ first appeared in the June 2001 issue of the Journal of American History and became ‘Digital History Reviews’ in the September 2013 issue”. The trend has been […]

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 […]