The Carleton College Arboretum (more commonly known as the Arb) was founded in 1926, and has since been used as farmland, the meeting place for the Reformed Druids of North America, and a place for Carleton students to get exercise, learn, or otherwise just enjoy nature. The Arb has undergone many changes throughout the years […]
Needed: ArcGIS online subscription and working knowledge of the software. If you are a Carleton student, you can get access to ArcGIS by going to this link. Austin Mason and Wei-Hsin Fu are also great resources to learn more about ArcGIS. Why StoryMap Journal? Alongside other built in Web App that come on board the […]
Progress: So far, our group has been focusing mainly on gathering as many maps of the Arb as possible. As of right now, we have found 14 maps ranging from 1931 to 2016, using the online Arb collection. We talked to a research librarian who suggested that, if we wanted to map the Arb between […]
One of these is more powerful than the other. Too bad I can only use SketchUp…. For this Midterm I created a 3D rendition of Northfield Depot. This is a very good way to preserve history and I hope that more people would do it. Read here
This is a simple map that I made. Basically, I mimicked Austin’s work and then made the pop-up for squirrels cleaner. It’s nothing too complicated, but I can see how this tool can be extremely beneficial when analyzing data. Coming from a CS background, this is the type of stuff that we’d have to do […]
This ain’t gonna age well, but whatever. I very much think I’ll be in the minority for this, But I find setting up WordPress being the most difficult web-related thing I’ve ever done. Since I had a little bit of web-design background, I thought that changing/removing some pictures would be as easy as changing a […]
” Programming is about choices and constraints, and about how you choose to model some select slice of the world around you in the formal environment of a computer. “ Kirschenbaum, G. Matthew, “Hello Worlds (why humanities students should learn to program) ” . May 23, 2010 . Accessed Jan 19, 2020: https://mkirschenbaum.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/hello-worlds/ Coming from 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 […]
I’m always uncomfortable with it. I’m uncomfortable with any culture that encourages you take on an entire identity, rather than to express a facet of your own identity (“maker,” rather than “someone who makes things”). But I have much deeper concerns. An identity built around making things—of being “a maker”—pervades technology culture. There’s a widespread […]
Since I’ve had a good amount of prior experience with 3D drafting in high school, so this assignment weren’t particularly difficult…Though afterward I did remember why we migrated to a new software. Since SketchUp has a very gentle learning curve, it was a little bit too cumbersome since a lot of the actions can’t be […]
