Q: Reflect on what you worked on and what you were trying to accomplish. Revisit the questions and struggles from your first pass at using Omeka: where do things stand now? I worked on my existing Omeka site for my Vivero project since I had to start over on the new site. It was definitely a different experience from the first time I worked on the site since I was able to incorporate more tools Read more
Q: Reflect on the experience of learning how to use Voyant and how it compares to Gale Digital Scholar Lab as a tool for text analysis. How would you feel about helping someone else learn how to use it? What do you notice is similar about Voyant and Gale Digital Scholar Lab as digital tools for textual analysis? What are the differences? Which did you prefer working with? Why? Voyant is a very user-friendly tool Read more
Q: Reflect on the experience of learning how to use StoryMaps. How would you feel about helping someone else learn how to use it? What did you find most interesting? What did you find most frustrating? What questions do you still have, and what parts of the tool do you want to explore more deeply? I enjoyed exploring StoryMaps and getting to know its features and capabilities. I feel pretty confident helping someone use StoryMaps. Read more
Q:Reflect on the experience of learning how to use WeVideo for video editing. How would you feel about helping someone else learn how to use it? What did you find most interesting? What did you find most frustrating? What questions do you still have, and what parts of the tool do you want to explore more deeply? I really enjoyed using WeVideo to create a short video. It is a really intuitive video-making tool to Read more
Q: What have you accomplished? What are your next steps? What issues or obstacles have you encountered that you have resolved or that you are still thinking through? What lingering questions do you have about the project or about your next steps? I think with my project, the main goal for the first half of the semester was to lay the groundwork for actually building the website in its final form- this involved experimenting with Read more
Q: After both reading and writing documentation, what do you think is necessary to create good documentation? What documentation will you and your project lead need to create for your Vivero project – and what steps do you need to take to make this happen? I think a good understanding of your audience is important to create good documentation. While it can be helpful to create documentation that with the assumption that your reader has Read more
Q: How would you feel about helping someone else learn how to use Gale Digital Scholar Lab? What did you find most interesting? What did you find most frustrating? What questions do you still have, and what parts of the tool do you want to explore more deeply? I think I would be comfortable helping someone use the Gale Digital Scholar Lab. It’s a fairly intuitive tool once you know what each of the main Read more
Q: What do you notice about the data and how it could be mapped? What do you notice about your visualization as you change its drawing style and customize its appearance? I noticed that if the data doesn’t conform to ArcGIS’s built-in map database it can be hard to work with. I think it defaults to locations in the United States too, which makes sense, but does mean that the data has to be modified Read more
Q: How would you feel about helping someone else learn how to use Omeka? What did you find most interesting? What did you find most frustrating? What questions do you still have, and what parts of the tool do you want to explore more deeply? I feel decently prepared to help someone with Omeka. I think the main challenge would be managing expectations and being clear about the fact that there’s only so much you Read more
Q: What types of visualizations were you able to generate in Excel using PivotChart? How could those visualizations shape or impact your understanding of the data? Did you generate any visualizations that were confusing or misleading? Alternatively, did you generate any visualizations that were unexpected or illuminating? I played around with different types of graphs like bar charts, pie charts, and line graphs. This is one of the bar charts I created. This was useful Read more