Hello everyone. Sarah here. For two and a half years, I have been working with Digital Harrisburg, first as a Work-Study and now as a Student Fellow with the Center for the Public Humanities. The end of this school year stands as the ending of my time with the Initiative that has been such a … Continue reading I’ll miss you Harrisburg: My Final Post
This past month I learned a lot about the field of digital history; that it has so much application to the field of history and how it is constantly expanding. I appreciated my small class size, and in turn the high amount of personal instruction I received from my professor. I was exposed to a … Continue reading Reflecting on Digital History: The Intersection of Past and Present
Over these past couple of weeks, I have learned a great deal about the City Beautiful Movement as well as what it means to be a digital historian. Digital technologies have developed so quickly over the past couple of decades. In the edited collection, History in the Digital Age, many chapters underscore how technology is used … Continue reading Reflecting on Digital History and Mary Sachs Research
For those who did not read my last blog pot, I introduced myself and also explained how I was entering into the vast discipline that is digital history. I took emphasis in the "vertical integration", so to speak, of digital history; and how it is used for each aspect of digital history; from research, digitization, … Continue reading From Archive to Online: Digitizing The City Beautful
As the culmination of the Digital Harrisburg Class, we, as students, were asked to put together a final project to demonstrate both the digital skills and the knowledge of Harrisburg we had gained through the class. In my case, I followed the early trail of the rather compelling and successful mayor and reformer Vance C. … Continue reading The Month in Reflection
Digital History has a name that is really misrepresenting in a way. Digital History really has not been around that long so it really it does not have all that much history. But in fact, what history it does have is really interesting and quite different. Digital History provides a platform for unique and adaptable … Continue reading Digital History- A Review
I never had a history class where I produced so much original work, at a decent quality so quickly. Maybe it is the nature of digital history. Maybe it was the intensity of the class. More than likely it was a privilege of experiencing both factors at once. Digital History taught us how to use … Continue reading A Transformative Project
During this class, I have grown exponentially in my digital skills and digital awareness. Regarding skills, I have learned how to use Microsoft Access, ArcGIS, Story Maps, Microsoft Excel, Zotero, WordPress, and Omeka. I have so many more opportunities on my hands now that I know how to use these programs. One of the programs … Continue reading A Review of Digital History
In Cal Newport’s blog post on Digital Minimalism, he emphasizes the importance of limiting the amount of time you use online. One of his hacks is to, “be wary of tools that solve a problem that didn’t exist before the tool.” He references GPS and Google as useful tools because they solve of the problems … Continue reading Projecting the Future of Digital History
GIS stands for Geographic Information System. Basically it is a technology that allows for information and data points to be placed on a map. While you may not recognize the name, you definitely have used it. In fact, most people use a version of it every day. Systems such as Google Maps and Map Quest … Continue reading GIS Technologies and Databases that Reveal Harrisburg’s History
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