Digital Humanities – Spring 2018

 

 

This was really challenging for me, but I think that this could be used in the classroom, at work conferences, selling products, social media. This was really neat and different. The only thing that I would say is that it is very limited. You must have the app in order to see the url that is attached to the actual photo, and I think that it should be a little easier to make. Other than that I think that this is very useful and has countless of opportunities if this program is modified. Sorry for posting this so late, Andrea and I have been working together trying to figure this out. So glad it’s finally done.

-Monique Walsh

When they visit the digital public history exhibit that I created, for starters, I hope that people actually take the time to learn about the fire. Before this project, I was not even aware that this fire had happened. I hope that people actually look into the fire, and all of the details of it because I found it to be very interesting. It’s also nice to learn something about the history of Cortland, which now a lot of us consider to be like our second home. Lastly, I hope people learn that it is not hard to do something like this themselves. Without this course, I would have thought that creating my own digital public history exhibit was something that I was not qualified to do by any means, but I did- and now thats a skill that I have acquired that could possibly help me in the future. Overall, I though that the last three weeks of the course and the project were very interesting and I’m glad that I had the opportunity to complete it. Now not only did I learn about the fire and how to create the exhibit, someone else will be able to learn about these things too if they take the time, and that’s pretty cool.

 

-Megan Bender

1)I learned a great deal of new information at this digital public history exhibit. Overall, this exhibit is about advertising in the 18th century. Additionally, this digital public history exhibit mainly describes and shows visuals, which describe information about many historical events.

2)Carl Robert Key is the creator of this historical exhibit, and is also a knowledgeable professor at Assumption College. Ultimately, he created this exhibit to create easy access to historical newspapers.

3)The primary sources I found consisted of old newspapers. Although some of these sources were difficult to interpret, I am looking forward to analyzing  and gaining insight on many of the historical texts. This public history exhibit is easily accessible, which is definitely helpful, but can be improved.

4)A way that I think this digital public history exhibit can be improved is to include longer descriptions/summaries to under the pictures. This will help me analyze the photo better, and definitely gain more insight of the context.

5)Overall, throughout this exhibit, a gain was the amount of new information that I learned. Additionally, I was very intrigued by the tools, such as the scanners and computers.  These tools were easily accessible, which is definitely  helpful for me, not knowing much about the exhibit. Additionally, the tools at this exhibit will also help me use the information I gain to my best potential. Ultimately, a gain in this exhibit is the easy access provided, and a loss is holding the picture in your actual hand. There can be damage done to the pictures from this, which can cause difficulties to someone using this exhibit.

 

 

This digital public history exhibit is about the history if advertising in the 18th century. The first thing you see when you enter the site is “What was bing advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today?” I thought that was really cool to be able to see that at the click of a button.

The exhibit was created by Carl Robert Key who is a professor at Assumption College. The reason for creating this exhibit is to make historical newspapers more easily accessible. Students at Assumption college also contribute to the exhibit.

The exhibit very well portrays old newspapers and again creates easier access for those who do not have access to the archives in which the originals are stored. Something that I would like to see improved about this exhibit is more description under each photo of an article. They can be hard to read and I’d really enjoy knowing the context of why the article was important enough to be included on the site.

Overall, the gain of this exhibit is easy access and the loss through this exhibit is holding the actual paper article in your hand.