• May 05, 2022
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• 4 minutes read

“Map of The Stony Man Region in the Shenandoah National Park” Digital Map This semester has gone by in a flash and I feel like I have gained new digital history skills and gotten a chance to improve on the skills that I learned from previous courses. At the beginning of this semester I had […]

• Apr 04, 2022
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For my digital project, “Map of The Stony Man Region in the Shenandoah National Park” Digital Map, the argument that I am attempting to make is that in the 1930s the people that lived in the Blue Ridge Mountain Region before the establishment of Shenandoah National Park were perceived negatively and that there is more […]

• Apr 04, 2022
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• 6 minutes read

This oral history annotation activity was the most difficult activity for this course as of yet. I chose to use a segment of the oral history of George Corbin that was conducted by Edward Garvey and Paul Lee conducted on April 20th, 1969. This oral history is apart of the Shenandoah National Park Oral History […]

• Apr 04, 2022
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The methods and technologies that are utilized in digital public history in turn then influence what types of digital public history projects are created. One major improvement in technology that has influenced the way digital history can be shared with the public is social media. Social media allows different public history organizations and institutions to […]

• Mar 03, 2022
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• 2 minutes read

This week has been a bit of a frustrating week for work on the digital project. I have made a small amount of progress on the map portion of the Omeka site and was able to download the Annotated Images plugin that Omeka offers. This plugin makes it possible to be able to hover over […]

• Mar 03, 2022
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This week for my digital project, I added a few more elements to my Omeka site and started on a bit of work that is not currently on the Omeka site quite yet. I added a few more items to my featured exhibits, “Corbin Hollow” and “Nicholson Hollow”. I figured out which image I wanted […]

• Mar 03, 2022
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For the mobile exploring activity for module #8, I chose to explore the mobile app called Clio. This app uses GIS to curate a guide to the museums and historic sites near the user. The website claims to have a total of 37,456 entries of different historic sites all over the country. New entries are […]

• Mar 03, 2022
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This week I have made some more progress on my digital project and was able to complete a piece of the project that will help with launching the project forward. This week, I met up with Mills at the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club’s archives and was able to get a photograph of the map that […]

• Mar 03, 2022
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Progress on my digital mapping project is coming along steadily. The modules the past few weeks have helped with prompting progress as the activities have directly corelated with some of the elements that I had envisioned to be included with this digital project. I have built out the basic structure for my Omeka site, which […]

• Mar 03, 2022
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For this week we as a class have been focusing on building out the infrastructure for our digital projects. The module started with thinking about content use and digital projects which led to the activity of storyboarding. This activity was an interesting step in the planning process of the digital project. I first went and […]