I’m Nick Skibinski. Currently, I am a history undergrad at the University of Mary Washington who will graduate in the spring of 2020….
Week 15 Progress Report
On Monday evening, we turned in the first draft of our project. On Tuesday in class, we outlined our presentation. As we have 7 in our group, it is difficult to ensure that everyone speak on some topic that they are familiar with. Having outlined the presentation, which we intend to practice on Thursday, we … Continue reading “Week 15 Progress Report”
Reflection
When we first met with the museum on one of the first days of class, we did not expect to be able to produce so much work. We had the baseline thought that we would create an updated 360 tour of the James Monroe Museum. The project quickly became much more expansive. Before we started … Continue reading Reflection →
It’s over. It’s done.
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 …
Reflection
Mission Statement: This project was completed in association with the James Monroe Museum. Our goal is to integrate technology and history through the lens of the James Monroe Museum’s collection. We aim to make history exciting and accessible to all. The baseline of this project was to create a 360 tour of the James Monroe … Continue reading Reflection →
Reflection
Mission Statement: This project was completed in association with the James Monroe Museum. Our goal is to integrate technology and history through the lens of the James Monroe Museum’s collection. We aim to make history exciting and accessible to all. The baseline of this project was to create a 360 tour of the James Monroe … Continue reading Reflection →
Adventures in Digital History – Final Thoughts
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
Final Reflection
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 […]
Contract Defense
As part of the Fredericksburg Historical Markers project, my group members and I were in a particularly unique position of creating our project to our exact liking, given that we did not have an organization to report to, like other projects in the course. This particular condition provided us the opportunity to dream big, with …