For this blog post, I want to reflect on this semester and the work I’ve done so far. As is probably the case for many people, our lives were blindsided by a viral pandemic that sweep across the world in a heartbeat and it has disrupted our normal routines. I suppose the convenient thing me and...
Category - Tools & Resources
The National Council on Public History (NCPH) dedicates itself to organizing work, activities, and understandings of what we call “public history.” The NCPH helps us to understand what is meant when talking about this particular field. They say Public history describes the many and diverse ways...
The means of doing public history have adapted with time. Sometimes moving at a slower pace, and sometimes moving at a rapid rate. The reality is that for those involved in the field of public history to retain employment and fulfill their desires of connecting the public to a practical means of...
Our digital world has caused many significant changes with the way historical projects are constructed. Many of the early digital projects centered on the creation of online collections, using the Web as a means to host the analog for depiction. This proved to be useful for scholars and the...
Oh man, was this project a doozie. For this post, I am going to be reflecting on my digital project that I made for my course in Digital Public Humanities out of George Mason University. To find that project, you can click this link or find it on the top of the tabs–it has its own page on my...
As part of my course in Digital Public Humanities (DPH…or just DH), my semester ends with project that is meant to showcase my ability to use a digital tool to produce a piece of scholarship. Yet, what good would such a piece of scholarship be if it were meant only for the eyes of my...
For this post, I will be discussing another assignment of mine from my course in Digital Public Humanities (DPH, though I also use just DH). In my last post, I discussed crowdsourced aspect of Wikipedia and provided a guide on how to evaluate the content of a page conjured up by editors of the...
In my course on Digital Humanities (DH), I was asked to essentially do what I would reckon most people who have gone through a college course (of any level) in the last couple decades have done–study a Wikipedia article. I found this task to be quite enjoyable because while I have definitely...
My last three posts concern three very distinct digital tools I learned how to use for my course in Digital Public Humanities (DPH). I practiced with each of these tools using a set of files provided by my instructor that contained content pertaining to interviews conducted in the 1930s with former...
While embarking on my journey into the land of Digital Humanities, my course on Digital Public Humanities (DPH) has ensured that I am not low on provisions. Yet another tool I have explored in this course to make sense of the data and information spread throughout the digital landscape is one...
