I used information from several sessions to create a blog and a first blog post. I hope to keep this blog going so I can continue to learn about the digital world. jessicaadventuresblog.wordpress.com/ I am still playing with some themes and ways to use WordPress so this is a very early version of what I […]
Continue readingIn 2014, I wrote an article for the SIUE student newspaper, the Alestle, which discussed the name origins of buildings on the SIUE campus. Unfortunately, that article never had a good way to visualize the way I wrote it. It turned into lengthy paragraphs that I was never happy with. Having seen Dr. Hildebrandt’s presentation […]
Continue readingSince this afternoon, I have been considering possible uses for interactive text games in the digital humanities. Since they usually involve exploration, I thought that it might be a good way to make a historical tour guide. I created a very simple guide to an imaginary town as a test of this concept. My proof-of-concept […]
Continue readingInspired by Dr. Kristine Hildebrandt’s Mapmaking facilitation, I begin to investigate what philosopher and literary critic Katherine McKittrick calls “Demonic Ground,” the negative space that exists within a marked geography (xxiv). The concept is rooted within the work of Sylvia Wynter, whose essay, “Beyond Miranda’s Meanings,” introduced the construct to analyze the invisible nature of Caliban’s […]
Continue readingFacilitator: Kristine Hildebrandt We looked at some example maps in addition to the ones I included in the session proposal: medievaldigital.ace.fordham.edu/exhibits/show/oxford-outremer-map/interactive-map neatline.dclure.org/neatline/show/declaration-of-independence#records/1329 datadrivenjournalism.net/featured_projects/uk_tech_landscape_where_do_they_meetup We made a map on Google Maps: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qlVBH_C3O7Q032EvBdoOHMuZ20o&usp=sharing And here are the basic instructions for creating maps in Google Maps and in R (we didn’t have time to cover R) I. Getting Started […]
Continue readingI have some experience with making custom maps using Google Maps and also using some free software called (R), which was originally developed for doing statistics, but has become much more powerful and useful through time. I’m interested in leading a hands-on session to demonstrate some of the features of both tools, and to briefly mention some other […]
Continue readingSession Organizers: Sudhamadhuri Arvapally, Jessica DeSpain, Matt Johnson, Sharon Locke, & Mallory Maves This presentation will share work underway with Digital East St. Louis, a project funded by a National Science Foundation Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers grant. Housed at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, the project is a collaboration between the Science Technology […]
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