Carleton During Times of War

Our project looks at enrollment statistics from the years 1940-1945 and 1967-1976  as well as textual analysis of issues of The Carletonian from the same years. Our aim in this project is to better understand the campus’ attitude toward the two wars in comparison to each other. We were interested in

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Create a Mindmap with MindMeister.com

A mind map, according to the main page of one mindmapping platform, “is a graphical representation of ideas and concepts. It’s a visual thinking tool for structuring information, helping you to better understand, remember and generate new ideas.” In other words, this software can be used to brainstorm, to represent

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Updates on Wartime Enrollment project

Helen Keithahn and Emma Wasend   Progress   We have been observing and gathering pieces of data, such as old Carletonians, from Carleton’s online digital archives and historical resources found on the Carleton website. We have also visited an archivist in the Library’s archives and received some data on increases

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JavaScript and the debate

The question of whether it is necessary to have students learn to code in order to participate in the digital humanities conversation is one that I really think could go in either direction. Taking a step back, the question can also be interpreted as whether the content of a digital

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HTML and CSS

I have very little previous experience with HTML and CSS, and doing the introductory tutorials I felt like I was learning a new language. As Long as I remembered the patterns, and had the instructions in front of me, I could replicate what the tutorial intended for me to do

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Taking up SketchUp

SketchUp is a very user-friendly 3D software that allows you to create three dimensional objects. For the first assignment in the class Hacking the Humanities, I was supposed to create a 3D representational model of the outside of the house that I grew up in. With the instruction we received

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