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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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Arc Gis: Discover the hidden information on the Map
Doing a digital humanity project is basically a process to find the information hiding in the back of other information. In the most basic transcription work, we are extracting text from the image. Then, we extract statistics from text using voyage tools. Now we are trying to extract the interactions between places and people using…
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A New Look at History: ArcGIS
For the past couple of weeks, our class has been collaborating on our sections of the Powell Diary in order to get enough information to build a GIS data dictionary. With the information that our class was able to collect through collaboration, we were able to determine the names and nicknames of the people and…
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Understanding History Through GIS
Over the last two weeks, we did close reading on Powell Diary, built our GIS Data Dictionary, created our own story maps and finally published the maps through a web mapping application. In my story maps, I focused primarily on the connections between Shamokin and Native Americans. Through maps and spatial thinking, I tried to find the answers…
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Professor Faull’s Awesome GIS Project
Today at 5 pm John and I visited the Conference for Humanities in the Terrace Room. We surveyed the different posters about digital visualization and various forms of digital humanities. There were a lot of interesting ideas being presented and it really opened my eyes to the realm of possibility that is associated with this…
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Advanced Mapping with GIS
Throughout the week we’ve been learning about the various features of GIS and how we can take mapping and visual spatial thinking to the next level. Mapping has changed a lot over the years, and the “subject matter once organized largely by periods increasingly embraces themes of region, disapora, colonial territory, and contact zones and…
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The Benefits of Using GIS
GIS stands for geospatial information system, a very useful system in which one can visualize, interpret and analyze a large sum of information. GIS can be used in many different ways, one way being a map in which one can layer information in an understandable and visually appealing way. The GIS map that displays the…
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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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A Story Map
Here is the kind of story map you will be developing this week with the map and data layers you have created! http://bit.ly/1uCkOxS
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Is it possible to standardize the evaluating process in digital humanity?
I visited the poster session at Saturday and found a really interesting project, which is ‘already failed’. It is a project initiated by Middlebury College. They are willing to standardize the evaluating process in digital humanity. In traditional academic research field, scholars present their work by writing research papers. An effective evaluation is to do…
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