Author: watrall
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Call for 2014-2015 Cultural Heritage Informatics Graduate Fellowship Applications
The Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative invites applications for its 2014-2015 Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellowship program. The Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellowships offer MSU graduate students in departments and programs with an emphasis on cultural heritage (Anthropology, History, Art History, Museum Studies, Historical & Cultural Geography, Classics, etc.) the theoretical and methodological skills necessary to creatively apply…
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Introducing the Virtual Black Romulus Cultural Heritage Center
Introducing the Virtual Black Romulus Cultural Heritage Center (VBRCHC), whose web address is: http://vbrchc.matrix.msu.edu Introduction I must begin by stating that I was born and raised in Romulus, MI. I attended Cory Elementary, Romulus Middle School and Romulus High School. This project is a labor of love. It truly all began when I was an elementary school…
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Visualizing Southern Television (v. 1.0) Launched!
In 1987, the University of Mississippi held a symposium entitled “Covering the South: A National Symposium on the Media and the Civil Rights Movement” wherein participants discussed the influence of media on the civil rights movement. During one panel, a group consisting of eleven Pulitzer Prize winners and three Emmy awardees make huge claims about…
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Nkwejong and Looking Forward
After some trials and tribulations I now have my project up and running. Nkwejong: Oral Histories and Stories of the Lansing Anishinaabeg community. This is just the beginning of what I hope will be an ongoing project that brings together my dissertation work and other collections of materials to record and preserve the Native history…
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Putting the Dead to Rest: My Last Post
Over the past six months, I’ve been developing and tweaking ieldran, an interactive Early Anglo-Saxon cemetery map. In this post, I’ve going to overview quickly why I developed the project, what tools I used, and where the project will be going. In 410 C.E., the Roman Empire withdrew its administration and armies from England. Increasingly over…
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Imbiza 1.0: It’s Just the Beginning!
Ke nako! Imbiza 1.0: A Digital Repository of the 2010 World Cup is now live and can be found at imbiza.matrix.msu.edu! Imbiza is a digital repository of over 500 photos and videos related to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. I have compiled materials for nearly every day of the tournament, and sources that…
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VST: Visualizing Southern Television (Update)
Visualizing Southern Television v 1.0 is almost ready for launch: the framework is stable, and I am in the process of uploading data. I note its version number as I have recently begun work on version 2.0. As it stands, v 1.0 documents the southern television landscape between 1942 and 1965, visually demonstrating the challenge…
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The dead have come alive!
ieldran, the Early Anglo-Saxon Cemetery Mapping Project, is officially live and can be found here: ieldran.matrix.msu.edu It’s been very exciting having the project live! However, because I went live early (most CHI projects will be going live on May 1) there are a number of features I wasn’t able to finish. There are two major features…
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Always Learning
I went the the Anishinaabemowin-teg conference in Sault Saint Marie a few weeks ago and was encouraged by all the work that was being done on Language revitalization involving technology and the internet. Communities are really using these technologies I think in a positive way that will be of benefit to preserving and promoting heritage…
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Use of Mobile Phone Pedagogies in Rhetoric and Composition Studies
This year was my third time attending the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCCs) annual convention. The conference’s mission is to support and promote the teaching and study of college composition and communication. The theme this year was Open, Source(s), Access, and Futures. Dr. Adam Banks, this year’s program chair, invited us to reflect…