Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve blogged outside of a class. As much as I admire the people who blog through their dissertations and have meant to do so, well… Good intentions and all that. I hope to blog my
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This week’s readings focused on mapping in the Americas, particularly in the time of Contact and European colonization. For me, this was rather appropriate, as my Latin America and the World minor field readings course addressed the topic of Conquest last week.
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For all two of my readers not from class (hi Mom!), I’ve just started a History and Cartography class for the semester. This week’s readings (week 1) focus on the idea of maps as primary sources containing arguments and agendas. Admittedly, in
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For a long time, I’ve wanted to make a comprehensive map of the journey of Antonio López de Santa Anna, Juan Almonte, Barnard Bee, George Washington Hockley, and William Patton from Texas to Washington in 1837. The project for my summer New
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Today I used Skype for only the second time. Instead of venturing to Fairfax for my History and New Media minor field readings class this afternoon, I Skyped in. This was partially out of convenience–it was nice to be in my apartment
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Note: I have cross-posted this on the class blog. Should any changes be made, they will appear on that site in the future. Lesson Goals & Reasons Goals In this lesson, you will learn how to create a listing of data from
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This past week, I’ve spent a bit of time (at least when not dealing with a busy week at work, including leading two walking tours on Sunday) playing around with tools that we learned last week, and looking a bit ahead. After
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This week for Clio 3, I’m presenting on WordPress–the platform on which I’m writing right now. As we’ll discuss in class, though, it’s so much more. WordPress is, indeed, a full content management system. To give my classmates a preview of what
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Tomorrow, or technically today, I’m presenting in Clio 3 on Data Manipulation. As Professor Gibbs and I defined it on Monday, my presentation on this potentially broad topic is twofold: Using SQL commands in PHPMyAdmin to merge and split fields; e.g., merge
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At least for now. At least for the sake of Dr. Petrik’s gradebook. You can see my final assignment, “Santa Anna Goes to Washington.” There is still more that I would like to do. In spite of Geoff and Sheri’s helpful advice,
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