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PPT: Final Project HIST 390 Introduction 1948… This was the year the United Nations began to recognise Israel as an independent Jewish state within the Middle East, but what does that really mean? This means that the country will practice and uphold Jewish traditions and religion. As if the Middle East didn’t already have enough […]
After messing around with the Blockly Maze for quite a bit and checking out my classmates solutions I analyzed and simplified there solution to create one that may take a bit longer, but it gets the job done with the use of logic. I noticed a lot of the class didn’t use a lot of […]
Tips for Final Project: Start somewhere; couple maps that are tied together, etc. Start thinking about adding additional data as it comes Programming Programming is what the software will do Instruction set (same for 30 years) for “how to add two numbers together” Each chip in a computer can execute commands and instructions (more CPU, […]
Scratch is very interesting program language. It introduces an interactive side of programming, like stories, games music and art. Prior to this weeks video and readings I had only heard small things about Scratch, but never really utilized the actual program. I took this as an opportunity to mess around on it a bit. It […]
I find the LOCKSS method to be the most efficient way of preserving digital data. There are a few things that must be kept in mind as technology continues to change. One thing is the type of file that the photos are saved in. If technology makes a new type of file for photos then […]
Beginning this class I wasn’t sure what to expect and how we would learn about digital history because I never thought of it as a big thing in the world; however, now we’re a few weeks from the end of the semester and I have really got a hold on what we’re going over and […]
I used Google Ngram to create a chart that shows the use of the word Jewish in comparison to the use of the word Hebrew between 1750 and 2000 in American English. It was interesting to see that the word Jewish gained a lot of usage around the 1930-Present period. This was most definitely impacted […]
Usage of Words Multitude of meanings + meaning over time + across cultures Context – correlations Linguistic divides Sourcing – books, magazines… a. timeliness b. literacy (read, write) c. Education d. Tech Usage patterns Preservation path Optical Character Recognition (ex. suck vs fuck) *Corpus – corpora… what makes it up Not a real preservation path […]
The first thing that caught my eye was the author of the article… Our professor, Daniel Cohen. The idea of a syllabus finder is great and the article gives great information on how we can do this to make them more accessible to anyone who wanted to access the database. The article also addresses H-Bot, […]
I did my presentation on the tsunami of 2004 which impacted 14 countries throughout Asia. This tsunami was labeled sixth most dangerous natural disaster in history. I chose this topic because I was living in Japan at the time and as soon as this struck Southeast Asia we began collecting donations at my school to […]
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