Today I used Skype for only the second time. Instead of venturing to Fairfax for my History and New Media minor field readings class this afternoon, I Skyped in. This was partially out of convenience–it was nice to be in my apartment
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This post has now been cross-posted to the class blog. Any future updates, as of 12/17/2012, will appear there. Lesson Goals & Reasons Why? Google Books has increasingly become one of the main repositories of textual sources for historians and other humanities
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Note: I have cross-posted this on the class blog. Should any changes be made, they will appear on that site in the future. Lesson Goals & Reasons Goals In this lesson, you will learn how to create a listing of data from
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http://youtu.be/nhjGoaKf52s Luckily, I don’t feel like I need Homer’s lesson, although there were moments. For this week, I decided to try not just embedding a map into a webpage, but into an Omeka site. A bit of background: for Clio 2 I
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This past week, I’ve spent a bit of time (at least when not dealing with a busy week at work, including leading two walking tours on Sunday) playing around with tools that we learned last week, and looking a bit ahead. After
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This week for Clio 3 I recovered from last week’s angst–at least mostly. Working on my PHP CRUD (more on that below) and looking at the tutorials for what we’re doing next in class got me thinking both about the small steps
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That is about how CRUD is making me feel at the moment. Creating my data entry form continues to vex me this week. I am feeling more caught up, overall. I’ve created my listing page, albeit with still non-functional links. Here is
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This week for Clio 3, I’m presenting on WordPress–the platform on which I’m writing right now. As we’ll discuss in class, though, it’s so much more. WordPress is, indeed, a full content management system. To give my classmates a preview of what
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Tomorrow, or technically today, I’m presenting in Clio 3 on Data Manipulation. As Professor Gibbs and I defined it on Monday, my presentation on this potentially broad topic is twofold: Using SQL commands in PHPMyAdmin to merge and split fields; e.g., merge
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Today’s Washington Post Magazine contains an interesting story about the deterioration of the mansion at Carter’s Grove, a 1750 James River plantation whose opulent mansion now faces ruin due to neglect. This story, which I would otherwise recommend, begins with wrong history that
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