Author Archives: Michael

My Digital Project

Please check out my digital history project Powell at the United Nations

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Video Clip Lab

For this lab I worked in iMovie to create a brief video introducing my website Deconstructing the Reluctant Warrior. Having very little experience using iMovie in an academic setting or being on camera for that matter, I found it very difficult … Continue reading

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Recapping Last Week’s Events Using Twitter and Storify

[View the story “Deconstructing Reconstruction” on Storify] [View the story “Deconstructing Reconstruction” on Storify]

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Podcasting

For the purposes of this week’s lab, I chose to “podcast” a close reading of Abraham Lincoln’s August 22, 1862 letter. Podcasts are audio recordings (sometimes with a video recording counterpart) that both experts and enthusiasts use to circulate discussions … Continue reading

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Word Clouds and their Applications

Data visualization is a powerful tool when it comes to surveying vast amounts of content in a timely manner. While text-backed data tools come in several different formats, the two most prominent and perhaps most useful methods of data visualization … Continue reading

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Social Annotations

For this lab, I chose to use Genius as a means of annotating the fourth chapter of Henry Adam’s autobiography The Education of Henry Adams. I chose Genius as I found it more straight forward and intuitive than Diigo or Hypothes.is, and … Continue reading

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