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 […]
Digital History
Review of Voyant and Palladio
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 […]
Monroe Museum Week 2 Discussion
This week’s internet roundup was similar to last week’s for us. Our project seems relatively unique in that we won’t be categorizing artifacts or sorting through primary source data. In that, we found some common threads in the digital projects this week. The Lincoln website completely didn’t work, while the Residential Schools site was fluid […]
Tool Roundup Part 2
Alright let’s get this done: I’ve worked with both StorymapJS and TimelineJS before, and they’re fine. TimelineJS is clunky to learn but after trying it out once or twice it’s easily workable. For the James Monroe Museum, I could see using either Storymap or Timeline in order to create an interactive timeline of the Biography […]
Yeah, websites are cool and all
I found that in searchingI liked the projects that were more interactive such as the Emilie Davis Diaries and the First Days Project. There were engaging reads, such as Black Perspectives and History of the National Mall. I found that I could appreciate the detail in something like The Great Molasses Flood, but the event itself and […]
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 …
Blog Post-Digital History Review
TweetThe digital history sites I visited incorporated interaction between the creators of the site and the people visiting the sites. For instance, in First Days Project, the site enables people to submit their own stories of immigration to the United States along with a map showing places people immigrated to. I really liked the set-up […]