Week 13 – End of Semester Reflection
One of the most important things I learned this semester is that slow progress is still progress. At the beginning of the semester, if I found that I didn’t have as much time to complete a task as I thought I would, my tendency was to postpone it to another day or time, instead of […]
Week 12 – ArcGIS Online, revisited
My Goal: To find hotspots for fatal vehicular accidents in Florida. What I Used: From ArcOnline, I found the following layers: FDOT District Boundaries (the original layer had a different colour for each district so I made all the districts have the same colour since I was focusing on a state level and not a […]
Week 11 Reflection – Omeka, revisited
I wanted to create an exhibit to display some of the information that we were given for the Santa María volcano research for a StoryMap some time ago. My goal was to create an exhibit with more than one page, with each page focusing on a different aspect of the trip. I think the way […]
Week 10 Reflection – Voyant
The experience using Voyant was very different from when I was using the Gale Digital Scholar Lab. One thing I noticed was that Voyant felt more straightforward. Even before reading the training section on each tool, I already had a good sense of what information the tool would put out, just by looking at it. […]
Reflection 9 – WeVideo
WeVideo has a very intuitive user interface that would make me feel comfortable helping someone learn how to use it. The only time I had trouble was when I had to figure out how to add a voice over to the project, but a quick online search helped me learn how. One of the most […]
Reflection 8 – ArcGIS StoryMaps
Before completing this training, I had used StoryMaps on multiple occasions for classes across departments at Grinnell. However, since I wasn’t navigating the tool for the purpose of completing a class assignment this time, I was able to explore more some features that I hadn’t previously used before. One tool like that is the map […]
Reflection 7 – Progress Report On My Project
Reflection 7 – Progress Report On My Project This semester, I have had to get used to making slower progress on the Native History Project because part of my time as a Vivello is dedicated to learning digital tools and supporting my peers who have questions about those tools. I deeply appreciate having time set […]
Reflection 6 – Documentation
Good documentation requires specificity. Each step of the process or workflow needs to be outlined. Care should be taken to avoid any vagueness in the instructions. To avoid this ambiguity, good documentation might sometimes need visual prompts (probably screenshots) to accompany the written instruction. The visuals need to help make the instructions clearer, not more […]
Reflection 5 – Gale Digital Scholar Lab
I see how the Gale Digital Scholar Lab can be very useful when dealing with either a large text or when managing multiple texts. Seeing K-means analysis being used in this context was interesting, because it’s being applied to documents instead of points with quantitative values assigned to them. It was like seeing an intersection […]
Reflection 4 – ArcGIS for Digital Mapping
EXERCISE QUESTIONS: What do you notice about this data [from the downloaded .csv file]? What questions do you think this dataset might help to answer, if visualized on a map? At first glance, I see that addresses are alphabetized and that there are some people with no address listed next to their names. There is […]