Author: Ewan H.

One takeaway that I found compelling was the discussion of Digital History as a future possibility, despite all the efforts that had/have already been made. The tension between class academic history being based in argumentation and Digital History shifting towards pure access of knowledge led the rhetoric surrounding Digital History to focus on Digital History…

1.) Don’t overdo it. Of the sites that I visited I found that the ones that were the most appealing to me were not visually busy, and conveyed the intended message (professionalism, mainly). I think that a site like Alyssa Brown’s was very great because the home page was not overdone. 2.) Establishing presence is…

We are one week into the second term of the semester and the action is right back on, at least for our group. I’m planning on going to the James Monroe Museum tomorrow to get more information about what we should highlight in our project. I have also been brainstorming about what kind of structure…

I investigated several different discussion sections of historical Wikipedia articles and found that while people expressed their opinion about the event, they did it in such a way that it was improving the accuracy of the article (in their interpretation). I found many discussions about word choice and capitalization, small grammar decisions that carry such…

View Link: https://mailumw-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/r/personal/kpyburn_mail_umw_edu/Documents/project%20video/Project%20Video.mov?csf=1&web=1&e=urRea7&nav=eyJyZWZlcnJhbEluZm8iOnsicmVmZXJyYWxBcHAiOiJTdHJlYW1XZWJBcHAiLCJyZWZlcnJhbFZpZXciOiJTaGFyZURpYWxvZy1MaW5rIiwicmVmZXJyYWxBcHBQbGF0Zm9ybSI6IldlYiIsInJlZmVycmFsTW9kZSI6InZpZXcifX0%3D Overall, this video was a fairly simple process. On Thursday I drafted the script that we would read off, and on Friday we went and recorded it. I think our project will rely very heavily on audio recording, and it was great to see that the microphones the HCC desk have (which…

The first website I reviewed was JSTOR. The content of JSTOR can best be described as an encyclopedic database of academic ephemera housed in one place (on stable links). In this regard the content is exceptional, extensive, and current in many fields of study. The Design of the website is simple and easy-to-use, as a…

I decided to go with Google Gemini for my AI, and the first thing I did was give it this prompt: “Write a 2-page essay about the U.S. Civil War, specifically, the Battle of Fredericksburg.” I figured the simpler, the better, and in this regard I was correct. The essay the AI spat out was…

I reviewed several of the Digital History projects that were provided, and I think my main takeaway was that they were very thorough and compelling with their information. I think that the projects themselves were super interesting and well executed through Digital History, but some fell short in terms of presentation (or modernization, in the…

One of the sites I clicked around was the History of the National Mall site. I was astounded by how robust and interactive the information was. I found myself wandering around the map, clicking into the popups of places I’d visited (Northern Virginia native, very familiar with D.C., I was there literally yesterday, etc.)and reading…