[cross-posted at the class blog] As our summer History and New Media minor field readings course draws to a close, one of the final assignments is to create our own data visualizations. For my fall 2012 “Clio 3” class, I built a
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When I put out a call on Facebook for suggestions on improving my final project website, Amber suggested a great idea: a mutual critique of each other’s. For me, the critiques by friends and classmates, whether in class or via social media,
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For class we are each offering friendly critiques of one person’s design assignment (here is Claire’s insightful critique of my assignment). I am critiquing Amber’s assignment, about sites in Athens. Strengths: This is, overall, a really nice site. The color scheme works
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You can find it here. Not so coincidentally, this is also the address of my final project. Because I am using Omeka for the project, I went ahead and got the whole site ready–at least with fillers for the pages, to give
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This blog was initially the result of a class requirement. I had thought about blogging, even taking a stab in 2004 (since deleted) and again briefly in 2009 (as in, all of one post). But it took Dr. Leon’s requirement in my
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This week I commented on the following blogs: Megan Amber Beth Richard
This week’s homework was our typography assignment, in which we experiment with type styles to prepare a page–one that may influence our final project website. Since my final project will be about the journey of Antonio López de Santa Anna to Washington
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Note to readers: For Clio 2, we all are required to post a comment on at least one classmate’s blog every week, then post a link to it on our blogs. So, following this set of posts will give you links to
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Today the missus and I went to see Manifold Greatness at the Folger Shakespeare Library. A large introductory panel greeted us as we walked into the Folger’s magnificent space. The intro panel set the stage well for the exhibition: although it appeared
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Still under construction for my Clio 1 class project #2, comments are welcome! http://www.davidmckenzie.info/projects/ Please note: I haven’t yet put tags on most items. I will be adding them. Thoughts on a controlled vocabulary? I uploaded some of the documents from Zotero;
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