(This is an incredibly late post, but in my defense – I changed my mind on some things in the process of writing this, and I just couldn’t get myself to finish any faster. Better late than never? Anyway…) Humanities students should “learn to program” in the sense that Evan Donahue describes it: by engaging […]
Category: Week 2: How it Works (Front End)
It feels like with every passing day technology is finding new ways to incorporate itself into our lives. However, our understanding of such technology has been slow to catch up with the pace at which it is being produced. This is due in part to the ideas and feelings that most people have about coding. […]
I believe it is no good for DH subject to requiring its followers to learn coding techniques. Why? Because coding is just like a language, which nowadays could be replaced by an online translator. It is a fact that we haven’t got the ability to develop a thorough enough interface that can handle all kinds […]
Coding is our future. No matter how I try to work around that statement or spin it to find a counterargument, nothing can truly contest that fact. And it is a fact — not just in terms of our futures as members of the work force, but as members of a world whose various disciplines […]
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As the world becomes more technologically advanced, there’s an increasing push for kids and students to start learning to write code at younger and younger ages. The image showed above is one of the top apps on the iOS store, and there’s way more available besides Lightbot that are accessible to people with smartphones and […]
The project I chose to explore is called Virtual Angkor. The project revolves around the 3D recreation of the city of Angkor and the elements that helped the city flourish. The project is clearly oriented towards education and using 3D technology to enhance that education. The goal of Virtual Angkor is to create a 3D […]
For this most recent assignment, I decided to write my “deconstruction” of a Digital Humanities project on a virtual version of Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument in the world and located in Cambodia (you can access the project here). The temple complex was built in the 12th century in what is now northwest Cambodia […]
Few things are so quickly dated and so obscure to outsiders in literature as references to place. A neighborhood nickname, a locally notorious alley, may be rich in meaning as Dickens writes them, but utterly baffle readers a mere generation later or a country distant. Authorial London: About The Authorial London project is a compilation […]
Overview While travelling in the crowded metro buses of the French capital, Paris, I realized just how popular alternatives to paper-books have become. Ebooks and Audiobooks with their economy of space and almost-instant accessibility have proven to provide a practicality and efficiency that was not possible beforehand. Thinking about how inconvenient it has become to […]
Francis Bacon, esteemed Elizabethan philosopher, father of empiricism, and notorious pain in my rear during my 10th grade AP European History class, undoubtedly left his legacy in history. However, his place in early modern British society — particularly within his connections to other notable figures of the era— serves as the lens through which anyone […]
Virtual Angkor is the result of the collaboration between Archaeologists, Historians, and Virtual History Specialists, likely in the spirit of scholarly collaboration under the wings of SensiLab at Monash University in Australia. Targeted towards educators, it was created to unfurl the Cambodian metropolis of Angkor before the eyes of students, it’s a three-dimensional world that […]
The Georgetown Slavery Archive is an online digital repository that archives a variety of different bills and documents relating to Georgetown University, the Maryland Jesuits, and slavery. The archive is also a part of Georgetown University’s Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation initiative. The project is still a work in progress and it was launched in February […]
Virtual Angkor is a groundbreaking collaboration between Virtual History Specialists, Archaeologists and Historians designed to bring the Cambodian metropolis of Angkor to life. Tom Chandler, Adam Clulow, Bernard Keo, Mike Yeates and Martin Polkinghorne, “Virtual Angkor”, 2018, virtualangkor.com.Posner, Miriam. “How Did They Make That?” Designed primarily as an educational tool to transport students into a […]
Virtual Angkor is a groundbreaking collaboration between Virtual History Specialists, Archaeologists and Historians designed to bring the Cambodian metropolis of Angkor to life. Built for the classroom, it has been created to take students into a 3D world and to use this simulation to ask questions about Angkor’s place in larger networks of trade and […]
By the mid-20th century, the modern research university assumed its present form, with segmented humanities departments separated from the natural and social sciences as well as from vocational and professional schools. Digital work challenges many of these separations, promoting dialogue not only across established disciplinary lines but also across the pure/applied, qualitative/quantitative, and theoretical/practical divides. […]
