Yesterday, we worked on utilizing Hypothesis to annotate Cohen and Rosenzweig’s Digital History. Through this process we were able to go through each section and see what portions of the text had out of date information, as well as things that we had questions about. It was interesting to read the articles at the beginning […]
Weekly Update 4/11
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…
Updates on our project
So far, our group has been making huge strides when it comes to our spreadsheet. In order for us to be able to batch upload our information, we had to create a spreadsheet that includes all of the known, and unknown names, their running numbers and their corresponding grave numbers. Additionally, we’ve been including information […]
Week Eleven: The Struggle is Real
I’m not even sure where to begin other than we have had so much to reconfigure the past week that my blog post is late! As a matter of fact, the last dream I had last night before waking up this morning was of entering data to our Omeka spreadsheet! That and the fact that …
Week 11 – Adventures in Digital Studies
We are less than a month away from completion of the Cemetery project and it is coming along very nicely. Our group has figured out naming conventions, the spreadsheet format, inclusion of grave numbers, landmarks for the GoogleMap, and thumbnails for the images to upload onto Omeka, We have made a great amount of progress Read More
Week 11-Storymap
I finished the Storymap and uploaded it to the website. I just converted the Timeline information (which we got from the James Monroe website) into a physical local. It is a bit shorter as many of the timeline points happened at the same places, so I just combined some of the timeline pages into single … Continue reading Week 11-Storymap →
Comparing Progress with Our Contract
When we first started the project, we progressed in our tasks than any of us could have anticipated. However, as time has gone and we’ve gotten to a part of the project that takes some more fine tuning, our deadlines have started catching up with us. Due to scheduling conflicts and Spring Break we finished […]
Week 11 Post
Dear Journal, This week has not been particularly interesting, so this entry will be short. I did submit my thesis draft for review this week. In the following weeks, I will be able to work on my group project. I did manage to find some sources for some of my markers since my last report. … Continue reading Week 11 Post
Week 10 – Adventures in Digital History – Changes in History
As we get further and further into the digital era, we have new problems that arise. Some of the issues that arise is with all these digital tools that help the user, such as Zotero, which formats cited sources automatically. Zotero is very helpful for putting the information down, however you must be careful to Read More
Digital Evolution of Historians
Technology usage in education has a profound effect on the classroom. Children tend to be more engaged and perhaps even a little more well-versed on how to use technology when incorporated in their education. While there are people in the professional world such as historians and teachers jumping on the bandwagon to promote change in the field …