As my senior year comes to a close, I am reflecting on all of the work I have done during my time as a student here at UMW. In this class, I have learned so much more about digital tools and how to access them, which is so unbelievably important to learn as someone who […]
After going through the many documents assigned for today’s reading, I still cannot help myself from having a negative opinion about the use of AI, especially in history education. I strongly believe that generative AI (creating information, images, and videos) is harmful to education, as it can allow anyone to create false information and spread […]
My group’s project is focused on the application of generative AI systems in public history. We want to explore the ways it can be used in the process of analyzing public history. Using the scrapbooks, photo albums, and notebooks from the University Special Collections of Alumni history from their time as students, metadata, transcriptions, and […]
For this post, I reviewed the Programming Historian site and its various lessons. I was immediately overwhelmed by the massive catalog of lessons and the wide variety of coding systems they were discussing. I decided to start with the easy difficulty lessons, which included topics such as “Building a Static Website,” “Python Introduction and Installation,” and […]
For this blog review, I focused on “JSTOR” and “Famous Trials.” JSTOR Famous Trials
For the essay and image of a historical figure/event, I chose to use Copilot from the UMW AI tools, and also chose Malcolm X as my historical figure to plug in. The AI generated a quite realistic image of Malcolm X during his prime, but the essay was lackluster. It was repetitive with its wording […]
Looking through each of the digital databases for this week, one of my favorite aspects of these sites is their interactivity. Being able to move through each section of the site helped me gain more interest in what each site was focused on, whether it was basic history or the history of a specific region. […]
For the Omeka examples, I looked at “New Roots” and “From Farms to Freeways.” Many of the other links on the Examples page were inaccessible or completely changed, with the “Intemperance Archive” now being some kind of gambling site. “New Roots” had access to hundreds of interviews with Latin American citizens from the Southern United […]
Hi! My name is Daniel Stell. I am a senior here at UMW, graduating in May with a degree in Creative Writing. I’m taking this class because it fulfills a requirement for the digital studies minor, but also because I have heard a lot about McClurken’s classes and his reputation as an exceptional teacher. I […]