Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
What I enjoyed:
- I loved the randomly generated feature images and stories! Great way to bring people in
- The acknowledgement of the place based nature of the topic and how it connects with the community there was very important to include
- It was a very self paced and explorative website instead of a single page scroller
- The search works well for specifics and tags due to captions for every piece of data submitted,
What could be changed:
- None of the videos worked 🙁
Searching for Residential Schools
What I enjoyed:
- This was pretty much a digital representation of a research paper
- It was just one long webpage which worked well for this case,
- I thought the subject matter was very interesting, especially examining how Residential Schools fit into the public consciousness
- I enjoyed the dark-mode them
What could be improved:
- None of the embedded Google features worked properly
- While a long webpage worked well for this case, I do think that it could have been more creatively organized.
Lost and Found
From what I understand, this is just a digital bulletin board for poetry that is considered genre bending or revolutionary. I don’t know if it was the format or the simplistic nature of the website, but this one did not vibe with me. I will need to look back at this website as my group creates our site in order to make sure that ours is nothing like it,
Map Scholar
What I enjoyed:
- From what I gather, this website helps for visualization of scanned maps by putting them overtop Google Earth. This is a great idea and from the projects I saw, not only shows the connection between the historic mapped landscape and wider environment, but also how the landscape could have changed allowing for palimpsest analysis across different mediums
- I can see my group using this!
What could be changed:
- The overall design of the website is dated
- Using the maps is janky but ultimately functional
St. Johns Microhistory Mapping
I was hoping to look at one of these sorts of sources sometime within this class, where they read over locations in a community based publication and them map them digitally. Unfortunately the mapping software broke leaving just the pins for the locations but without a backing map. Very interesting idea and implementation but the overall website was plain and didn’t work well.
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