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Ahoy bloggers! I failed miserably to keep up with my blog last sememster. But today is a new day and I’m thrilled to be preparing for the upcoming THATcamp un-conference.
check it out: http://thatcamp.org/
Amanda French has posted a geat topic- I’m really interested in being around for this dicussion.
http://thatcamp.org/2009/05/digital-history-across-the-curriculum/
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Time flies
So I’m in the middle of this semster and I’ve already gotten so far behind. I’ll be updating my classes and info soon, stay tuned fair travellers.
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Catching up to 2009
whew, times flies, The final project went pretty well, overall I was pleasedwiththe result. Out of this experience I realized that I am fascinated with cartography. I always loved maps and such, but thinking about maps beyond decor was something I really had not done before.
With this project, I was interested in thinking about digital cartogrpahy and [...]
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Presentation follow up
Thanks to all who commented on my mockups last night. I wanted to post more information about the project to address some of the areas of my grant proposal that did not get discussed in depth in my presentation.
Abstract:
Mapping the Footsteps of History is a Web 2.0 geospatial mashup tool that will allow users [...]
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Presentation
here is my presentation, I look forward to comments.
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Website mock up PDFs- (even though they are not very clear.)
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Evolution 2.0
Ok so I’ve been working away at the design and layout, I’m in draft version number 6, I’m sure there will be some tweaks for my presentation next week, but I wanted to post my three slides that shows how my tool would work.
So here are my more detailed mockups:
I look forward to getting comments.
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Mapping illness
I was very interested in Snow’s cholera map that Professor Cohen showed us in class this past week. It just so happened that this article came out discussing the Google mapping of illnesses. Heres’ the Google announcement.
More specifically, Google awarded 14 million to “…support partners working in Southeast Asia and Africa to help prevent the next [...]
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Shaping the vision
Here’s a real rough beginning mock up of my site that I’ve tried to transfer from my original drawing I brought to the class Jeremy taught. For this tool there are three steps.
I wanted to avoid having to do those three steps by navigating three levels down from the home page. So the idea is [...]
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Imaging Literature
Moretti’s book is an interesting read. Not because it offers some cool ways to visualize and learn, but because it is so far from that way I learn and understand that I had to work a little harder to try to connect with it. Applying a quantitative approach to literature is an interestng and yet somewhat surprising [...]
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Focus
Some feedback I have been given thus far is that my project is not focused enough. So with that in mind I’ve decided to focus down my project to be just specific tool for creating a now and then map of battlefields keeping an eye on creating the broader ideas environment in the longer term.
I’m [...]
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