Ruh roh. The day has finally come where I actually have to make something digitally. I’m being dramatic, but I’m not the most tech savvy, but maybe I should give myself some more credit because the process of actually creating the map was not too bad. Mapping My Favorite Spots…
Well we’ve been set back a little in this class due to the snow/ice storm that hit Fredericksburg Sunday, January 25 which put us online for the remainder of the week, but how fitting is that! How cool is it that we’ve been able to develop technology that allows us…
AI has been quite the hot topic socially and politically in the United States as of late, and as a future educator I have rustled with the morals, ethics, and practicality of AI more times than I’d probably like. I don’t love how I feel it’s making students (at least…
Hannah, Caty, Caitlin, and I got together Thursday morning to discuss our thoughts on the websites we viewed the days before. With our project with the Central Rappahannock Heritage Center in mind, here are some of our thoughts: What We Liked We LOVED the interactive features and easy to follow…
Black Perspectives The first site I explored from the list of Rosenzweig Prize Recipients was Black Perspectives which was published by the African American Intellectual History Society. This site was published in 2016, but I feel like it has a bit of a timeless feel to it because it’s simplistic,…
I’ve used Omeka, a website building platform that is designed for holding digital collections, before for a class project in HIST 299, but my portion just required me to input the fields (like date, description, author, etc.) for one news article in a collection at the UMW Simpson Library. I…
Fun fact about me, I’m not a very tech savvy person, but in a very digital world I think it’s important that I invest my time into developing these skills. Let’s save more of that conversation for later. First, what is Digital History? What are Digital History and Digital Humanities…