We are here at the end of a strenuous semester, our projects are mostly finished, exams start this week, and every single one of us is ready to get out of Dodge and enjoy our summers. As such, it is also time for evaluations, reflections, and thoughts on what we could have done better throughout…Read more A Somewhat Weak Defense of a Contract
Digital Citizenship
As we mentioned in class, digital citizenship is a very interesting topic. As social media continues to expand in our generation, more and more people are utilizing the internet. You can build your own marketing campaign online, find ways to get around your city with rideshares, and keep connections with old friends, classmates, and colleagues.…Read more Digital Citizenship
Productive Failure
So, there's certainly a lot to this project we've been working on, and that means there's a lot of room for failure. For example, there's room for miscalculations and procrastination, missed research oppurtunities and not getting along with group members, but part of human nature is knowing how to adapt. For example, a productive failing…Read more Productive Failure
Group meetings and Game Science
So this past week was for both group meetings and meeting with the game science class, who are creating an interactive for our website. The meeting went pretty well, just helped us to narrow down our research even further and focus on the website creation. When we met with game science, they seemed to like…Read more Group meetings and Game Science
Talking to the AVID Students
So the other week we had a group of high school students who are part of AVID, which is a sort of college prep program for students who may not have equal oppurtunities to go to college as others. Basically what happened was we had 4 students from one of the local high schools come…Read more Talking to the AVID Students
Another Week in Review
So this was a pretty good work in terms of getting work done on our Mountain Dance and Folk Festival project, mostly because I've been able to work on website for the project so that's been a huge help. By being able to do that know that frees up time for research in later weeks.…Read more Another Week in Review
Story Maps and Timelines
The other week in class we discussed several mediums that can be used to list information and display them for an audience, particularly StoryMap JS and Timeline JS, which are very easy to use and are perfect for history students.These particular websites can prove very useful for all of use students due to the endless…Read more Story Maps and Timelines
Another Week in the Books
Alright so we've had another week of brainstorming and research to work through for our project on the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival and things are really starting to work themselves out. We've got a lot of good research information to use now, including audio files that weren't processed originally so we didn't know we…Read more Another Week in the Books
Small steps in big directions
Alright so one of the requirements for this course is to make blog posts regarding different aspects of the course. This first post is about some websites we looked over, both part of the Century America project and some Omeka websites, and I gotta say I was impressed for the most part with the…Read more Small steps in big directions
