Author: watrall
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Digitizing Culinary History
My project will be a digital representation of my larger research project, How to Read a Cookbook: Deciphering the Life of Malinda Russell. Malinda Russell was a nineteenth century culinary entrepreneur whose 1866, A Domestic Cook Book: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen, is the first known book published by an…
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Project ideas
In my last post I posed a bunch of questions about digital pedagogy. My long attempt at an answer is going to be my project. I am planning a website that will be a pedagogical tool to help teach an undergraduate course on the American Revolution. The idea behind the course is to get college freshmen…
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Thinking about digital pedagogy
This post is long overdue, mostly because I have been wrestling with these thoughts for a while. Without necessarily revealing what my project will be (that will be the next post), I want to talk about the use of digital tools in pedagogical projects. A challenge for me has been thinking about using digital tools…
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Commodities on the Volta River
For my CHI project, I plan to publish a clean dataset composed of information about trade goods carried across the Volta River in West Africa. An important nexus of trade from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, the Volta River was traversed by traders moving back and forth from the forest region of present-day Ghana…
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An Annotated Video Guide on Mapbox
Table of Contents: Introduction Tutorials Project Examples About the Author Photo source: https://gfycat.com/gifs/search/mapbox Introduction Whether you are a student or instructor interested in using Mapbox, this guide offers a quick overview of videos related to the software’s how-to’s and provides a few examples of how others have used Mapbox in their projects or businesses. This…
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It’s Easy Being a Critic
Recently, I was sent galleys for an upcoming co-authored article to be published in POROI. The article, called “Addressing the Social Determinants of Health: “Vulnerable” Populations and the Presentation of Healthy People 2020” is a critique of the limiting definitions of “population” and “resiliency” found in the massive data project compiled by the U.S. Department…
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More Ways to Build Interactive Elements for Your Website
Like Autumn (read her recent blog here), I have also been researching JavaScript libraries that can be used to build interactive elements into websites. As archaeologists, we are always looking for new ways to reach a wider audience with our research and communicate about what we do. While websites are a great way to achieve…
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Data Management and FAIR
During my stay at Leipzig, I attended a workshop named Digital Management of Science Data given by two specialists from the Data Center for the Humanities at University of Cologne. As a humanist, the concept of data management is fairly new to me. However, after this workshop, not only do I realize the necessity of…
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Integrating Interactive Elements into Websites
Throughout the process of planning my CHI project this semester, I have begun to delve into various ways that it is possible to integrate interactive elements into a webpage. One in particular that has caught my eye is the use of drag and drop JavaScript, specifically the draggable JavaScript library. This is Javascript library that…
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DH & I
At the end of November, I was invited by University Leipzig to attend the first Academic Alumni Forum, the Digitalization of Research, in Germany. As one of the Alumni, I presented my research project “Multiculturalism in the German Football World” on the second day of the conference. This project was the final product from last…