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Sticking Around: How Does Website Preservation Work?
While the web is a great platform for creating interesting, unique, and innovative projects, there is also a risk that today’s technology will be obsolete and unusable in the near future. To keep my site up for as long as possible, I sat down with Katie Farr and Zach Sharrow from The College of Wooster…
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…and we’re back!
Hello and happy 2023! I just returned to campus and I am happy to be starting the spring semester tomorrow! Since my last blog post, you will see some changes to the site. Most obviously, I added a new section which made up the bulk of my work over winter break. This section, called “Ben…
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End of November Updates, Postcoloniality on the Web
Having just come back to Wooster from break, I am now closing out the first semester. As I’ve discussed in my earlier blog posts, the process of creating web content is iterative. As with many points in the semester, I’m starting to write and outline the third and final section of my website while also…
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StoryMaps Continued: Additional Tools
This week, I have continued to work on my StoryMap on Indigenous life in Wayne County, as well as cross-referencing and editing my website and the accompanying essay. I’m also looking forward to meeting with the Cultural Education for the Delaware Tribe of Indians, a second Delaware group in Oklahoma, to discuss my project and…
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WordPress Skills
The Independent Study is a project that is meant to hone skills that students are building throughout their college careers. For me, these include historical writing, researching, and critical thinking. However, I am also learning new skills that have allowed me to share my historical research with others. As I am coming into the final…
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Web Development: an Iterative Process (and happy Halloween!)
As I continue to write my web content, I am reflecting more not only on what I am writing and how, but also the actual process for writing. While I have experience in developing web content through the Wooster Digital History Project, I was usually working with other people to research, write and build. However,…
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StoryMaps and Accessibility
This week, I am continuing to work on my web project, and I will be adding more content to the site shortly. This content will focus on Wayne County’s Indigenous history. As you browse the site, you may notice some differences in how the site looks from my original mockup. This is because I am…
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Indigenous People’s Day and Fall Break
Today is Indigenous People’s Day. Today is meant to be a national reminder of what America’s tribal nations have endured in the last 500 years, but it is also a day for education, acknowledgments of Indigenous sovereignty, and celebrations of Indigenous survivance. October 10th used to be a holiday to celebrate Christopher Columbus, who for…
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Digital Storytelling: They Could Always Click Away!
I’m happy to say that I have now finished my essay that outlines my historiographical traditions! This essay will be more for scholars who follow my work, my second reader, and maybe for a conference. Now that I’ve done the background research on how other historians have used digital tools, how local history interacts with…
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Domain, continuing contact
Some exciting developments on my project happened this week, namely, I now have a set structure for how I want to go about writing about my work and designing my exhibit. Before writing my web content, which will be a limited number of words, I am first reading up on how other historians have used…
