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…
Week 14 – End of Line
Dear Journal, This will be my last entry on this blog. Reflecting back on my digital history project and my journals entries, I believe I did alright, but I feel like I could have done a lot better and a lot more. This semester being my last, I was busy with equally hard classes in … Continue reading Week 14 – End of Line
Week 14- Reflection
This semester, my group was responsible for creating a digitized map and register for the Fredericksburg National Cemetery. I have never done a group project of this scale before, so it was definitely an interesting experience that taught me many skills I can carry into the future. I learned a lot about different digital tools Read More
Week 14 Progress Report
On Tuesday, we presented our progress to the class. As we’d used our workday to present to Luisa, our progress was not very great. However, after class, Marianne and I met with Angie, and uploaded all the metadata from our beautifully completed spreadsheets. She showed us exactly what they had to look like in order … Continue reading “Week 14 Progress Report”
All done! (almost)
We did it! We submitted our project last night and are awaiting comments and revisions from Professor McClurken so that we can hammer out some details before presenting on Friday. I’m extremely proud of everyone in our group and our ability to complete this demanding project while simultaneously balancing the workload of our numerous other […]
Week 14- Finished Project
We finished our project! Everything is now uploaded on to the website. All of the videos have closed captions, are on the hotspots page, and are within the 360 videos. Other pages, such as the 3D artifact project and Google Arts and Culture are also embedded within the 360. The Timeline and StoryMap provide more information … Continue reading Week 14- Finished Project →
Week Thirteen: Tick-tock, Tick-tock, Tick-tock
Well, time is quickly running out! There was so much to do this week and thank goodness, we can see the end of the tunnel. Claire and I spent four hours in the Digital Library Lab on Tuesday and again today. Tuesday we concatenated all of our data (with Angie’s help, of course) and uploaded …
Week 13
Our project is coming along nicely. We are working on powering through the film editing and overlaying the voice overs. I am currently working on closed captions, but I have to wait on most of them until the videos are done and have been posted to Youtube. We also wanted to take past James Monroe … Continue reading Week 13 →