Tag: Humanities
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The Process to Save Martin Mack’s Legacy
The Powell Diary did a great job in showing how all the different parts of a transcription process worked and how to get a modern english edit from old english writing published digitally. In Digital Humanities, there are many different ideas that can be applied to this type of work. All these different topics could…
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Moravian Missions from January 25th to February 3rd
This is the complete map that John Edler created to show the missions represented in his section of the Powell Diary. It has about 9 complete slides all detailing the important components of the daily posts by Powell himself.
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Poster Session – Flipped Learning and Online vs. Traditional Learning
At the 10:15AM poster session, I focused mainly on two talks: flipped learning and online vs. traditional learning. I thought the flipped learning talk was very interesting, not to mention the speaker was also pretty funny and refreshing. I was not familiar with the concept of flipped learning prior to the talk, but anything that…
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Digital Archive of the Boston Marathon Bombing
I attended the 8:30 am paper session of the Digital Scholarship Conference. While I was there I learned about several groups humanities projects that they had completed. Although I thought that the visualization of the Polish Jew’s life using the Corpus linguistics application was interesting, I was most interested in the Boston Marathon archive project.…
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Geographic Visualization Map and It’s Relevance
This GIS, Geospatial Information System, is used to be able to describe the Moravian missions made by Powell and his friends during the year 1748. The GIS has already been used for similar ideas, shown in Bodenhammer’s article, The Spacial Humanities, “archeologists have used GIS and computer animations to reconstruct the Roman Forum, for example, creating a…