Sorry for the hour late post, I got stuck late at a meeting at work- then traffic. By the time I got to the history department the doors were locked and I spent a little bit of time freaking out. Here is the final pdf. I am not 100% happy […]
Yearly Archives: 2015
If I knew what I know now at the beginning of class, I would have gone in a different direction. I remember leaving the first day of class and only being able to think of map related projects. I am not sure if it was because I have also […]
Retrospective, the digital version
1 I did something in indesign that messed up all of my text, so right now you are getting a lot of jumbled gook, until I can get home and mess with it and fix it! It also deleted a lot of my super awesome picket fence timeline points. Here is […]
Ahh! Indesign, what did I do!
For being a billion dollar theme park, Disney’s wifi isn’t the best. Unfortunately for me that means the articles aren’t opening. Unfortunately for my fellow students that means my posts and comments will have to wait until I return to post. For digital history class- what I have learned from […]
Remote posting
Here is my quirky map find for the weekend, Enjoy! Maps
Quick post from Milwaukee
Readings and Activities: The readings and activities will be different this week, there is a method to why we are reading this way that will become apparent as you read. BEFORE doing the readings take the Pre-Test: “So You Think You Know What Plagiarism Is? Pre-Test Your Knowledge.” Accessed November […]
Good teachers, make good students
2 Since my project focuses on big areas I wasn’t sure what I could or would wind up with for the sketchup project. I thought about doing my childhood home but I don’t know where I would find a floor plan. Instead I went with my dream house- A nice simple […]
The humble and efficient home.
I put off posting this week because I could not figure out if I loved maps of places that do not exist, or if I think they are a waste. What I finally realized is, I like them for the artistic value that is typically associated with them, I do […]
Fantasy Maps
This week we focused on the topic of open source history. This topic is near and dear to my heart, my project for this class is based on open source and user generated content. I believe putting history back in to the hands of the “public” will enrich the field, […]
Open Source
Last week we had to run Photoshop on images we might use in our project. I went with Mr. Zip. Saturday the Smithsonian posted the picture below on their Owney the Raildog facebook page. I feel much better about my Photoshop skills if this is the “professional” version.
