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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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In the past few weeks as an intern at Smithsonian Enterprise, I have learned a lot about how the Smithsonian as an organization works together and where there are divisions as it is a massive organization! I have been working on both the public and private side of the EdX platform to see what the […]
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The digital project I would like to create will be an interactive map using an existing map of Shenandoah National Park titled “Map of Stony Man Region in the Shenandoah National Park” drawn by Tom Culverwell from the year 1935. The main content of this digital project would include a digitized version of this “Map […]
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Name: Emily Demographic: mid 20s woman from the Midwest Descriptive Title: High School Teacher Quote: “I enjoy watching my students interact with digital resources and being able to really see them learning.” A Day in a Life Narrative: Every year, Emily has to decide how she will plan out her lessons for her sophomore level American History class. She […]
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For the first unit of the course Digital Public History, we focused on public history as a field and audiences for public history. Public history can come in a variety of shapes and sizes so to speak. Before working in the public history field I thought this term “public history” was meant exclusively for museums, […]
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This interview research activity was an interesting way to gather data before the construction of the digital project. This research helped me to frame my thinking and made me think about who my primary audience is and who else may use this resource. The two audiences that I had initially identified were people that enjoyed […]
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In this essay I have conducted a comparative review of Mount Vernon’s physical historic site and their online counterpart MountVernon.org. While this historic site is massive and offers various learning experiences, I have chosen to focus on their presentation of the home itself and the virtual tour that is offered on their webpage. In this […]
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