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Hist 696: Manovich
Oh, for one more week with this text. Well, if I’m dreaming, a month with just this text would be better
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Hist 696: Prezi!
Hi all,
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Hist 696: Save the Data!
With my love of digital archives and my desire to create digital content, digital preservation is an issue near and dear to my heart. On some level, it still seems risky to pour all that time and energy into the creation of digital content that may not be usable in 10 or 20 years. In contrast, information recorded on paper seems much more stable; baring fire, water, and acidic paper, etc., what is written down on paper will remain intact and usable for years to come.
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Hist 696: Draft of Grant Proposal
Attached is my draft of the Grant Proposal. The appendices will be added to over the week.
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Hist 696: The Details
The readings for this week focused largely on questions of design and the process of web development. The nuts and bolts of what we are attempting to do, with guidelines to help us avoid some of the more egregiousness website design errors. I found that most of the information reinforced what I have heard before or what I have found most helpful when dealing with websites. However, it was very helpful to be exposed to a vocabulary for describing those elements to others.
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Hist 696: Thoughts on the history of Digital History
(How meta)
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The perils of digitization
This semester I decided to put my career plan of digital history into action, taking on a semester project to digitize a decade of the Banner. The project was to both give me experience in the process of digitization, the different tools, methodologies and practices that exist, and to do some research into my own denomination.
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What I do on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays
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The lenten season approaches
My class on Medieval theology is going through a section on the "theology" of the monks (in quotations because "theology" as a term is the result of the Scholastic or school-based tradition; the monks would not have described their reflections as theology). As Denis Turner waxed wisely on how the writings and the thoughts of the monks must be understood within the context of the monastic life, I was struck with the idea that lent is a chance of us, average human beings not in a monastic community, to inhabit the monastic life. It is a time to set aside distractions, to live by a rule of prayer, to engage in a period of intensely seeking God.