Author: Cora H.

  • Final Reflection

    This project has pushed me more than any project I have worked on thus far at Mary Washington. I had to learn new skills like website design, archival work, both physical and digital, and many skills associated with digital history. As a historian, my…

  • Week 14 Update

    As the week closed out, I began working on revisions, and we started to think about how we wanted to present our work! It is getting a little stressful thinking about everyone interested in DGD seeing this site, but it was super cool to see it in the …

  • Week 10 Update

    Descriptions are being up in, my website skills are growing, yippee! I think the due date next week is getting to us, but I believe we can get it done. The divide and conquer method has been put in place so that we aren’t stepping on each other&…

  • Week 9 Update

    Timeline is getting a bit stressful and confusing, but I shall persevere and get it done! My digital portfolio is lacking, but more projects are to come. Still searching and putting in images, why were the 90s so lame?! Worrying about the number of th…

  • Week 8 Update

    I feel like our project is slowing down, or more groups have more things done. I do play a part in that, but progress feels a bit sluggish. I really am enjoying this project and all the things I’m learning about DGD! The uploading to the website…

  • Week 7 Update

    Contract revision, making it sound nicer and much more realistic. The first presentation has me a little nervous, but we have something to show! Brainstorming the timeline and outsourcing help from my teammates. Also, who knew Wikipedia had so much go…

  • Week 6 Update

    The cover image basically describes how I’m feeling; we are really starting to get into this semester. Contract done! Learned how to do voice recording for our 2-minute video, glad I’m not doing the editing. Our audience is most likely goi…

  • Week 5 Update

    Working on contract, reached out to Special Collections to see what stuff they have, Charlotte and I will go and look through them, and hopefully find more things! Learning lots from the DKC and hopefully will remember them 🙂 Real work starts next week!

  • Week 4 Update

    We are finally starting to work on the project in earnest. Searching for any mention of DGD that the internet can provide. We started a Google Drive to catalog everything we have so far. Hopefully, we can stay this organized throughout the project. St…

  • Week 3 Update

    Snow week! More like ice week but tomato/tomatoe (I’m changing the spelling 🙂 ). We are brainstorming the project and the contract. I think our goal of 10 images per decade is doable, and I’m curious as to what we will find during our research.