Digital History

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 …

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Five lessons I learned on digital identity. Sources used: Jeffrey W. McClurken https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/creating-your-web-presence-a-primer-for-academics/30458 Professors, Start Your Blogs http://www.careerbuilder.ca/blog/2009/10/12/cb-build-a-digital-footprint-you-can-be-proud-of/ http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/02/personal-branding-in-the-age-of-google.html 1. The front page should offer a brief introduction to the site and host. Besides that, links to other relevant sites (such as side projects, published works, and the like) can be useful. 2. Grooming your digital … Continue reading Week 9 Blog Post →

For every DGST class I’ve ever taken, I have had to Google myself and find/ clean my digital footprint. Without fail, each time I find dirt that I clean out. Today was no exception — nothing bad, just things that are too closely tied to personal information. I did have fun going through the websites […]

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 […]

SO if you’re not HIP and IN THE KNOW, the James Monroe group is creating a 360 video tour, timeline, spotlight videos, QR codes, and website for the james monroe museum. my main job is figuring out the technology part of the 360 degree tour. Originally, we were going to use ThinkLink. It was super […]

Our group has been greatly productive. We went to the museum, got all of our filming and principle photography done, and I’ve started to work on hotspots. I think that the timeline and research group is doing well, but we could do better in regards to our communication. We’re making good progress all in all. […]

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 […]

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 …

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This week, we submitted the draft of our contract. Our challenges with that seem to be specificity, we need to add much more detail to what we will be doing and how we will be doing it. As far as the project itself, we weren’t able to get a 360 camera from where we thought. […]