Add Your Text Here.

See posts by tags

See posts by categories

Recent posts

  • May 05, 2022
  • 3 minutes read

Thinking About Historical Thinking

History is about telling stories of the past and their relevance to today. History is not just knowing about a series of events that make up the past. Historical thinking is a critical thinking skill that all history teachers hope their students will learn when studying history. Historical thinking is not just memorizing dates, places, […]

  • May 05, 2022
  • 3 minutes read

Intro Blog Post HIST 689

Hello there! My name is Ashley Palazzo and I am a current graduate student at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. I will be concluded with the history masters program at the end of this course and I am working towards my Masters in Applied History. A bit of background about me is that I […]

  • May 05, 2022
  • 4 minutes read

Final Digital Project Post

“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
  • 3 minutes read

Internship Blog Post #8

Wow this final semester has gone by so quickly! This opportunity to work with Alison at Smithsonian Enterprises has been wonderful in many ways and I felt I have learned so many valuable skills that I will take with me throughout my career in the future. Because of my internship, I am now more than […]

  • Apr 04, 2022
  • 3 minutes read

Portfolio Blog Post #3

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
  • 6 minutes read

OHMS

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
  • 3 minutes read

Portfolio Blog Post #2 Module #9

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
  • 2 minutes read

Digital Project Progress Update Module #9

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
  • 3 minutes read

Internship Post #6

For the past few weeks I have been working on building out the Smithsonian Summer Session course that will run from June 27th through July 1st, 2022. I have been working on the non-public facing side of Edx which is called Edx Studio Edge and this portion of the project involves a bit of creative […]

  • Mar 03, 2022
  • 2 minutes read

Digital Project Update Module 8

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 […]

css.php