Posts Tagged ‘ History ’
Well, it was bound to come, my friend the mind map is back again. Not much to say on this really, I am very much an advocate of it’s use. In particular since the days of yore I have used Freemind for my mind mapping needs, it was an application I had become used to when [ READ MORE ]
RSS, what is it? A translation for the lay person, or indeed technophile is Really Simple Syndication, which probably makes the process no clearer! To equate it… what Facebook does in it’s ‘Home’ Page and what Twitter does. But RSS is for entire websites, updating you with everything that is updated on the website. While Facebook [ READ MORE ]
The title, I am inclined to say, says it all! Building blocks, it was the objective in the search for several tools for digital management of what I have found is becoming a rather expansive and extensive collection of digital resources for my research. This post will be the first of three dealing with what [ READ MORE ]
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This blog comes in response to the reading of an article in the technology supplement in the Irish Times. This article highlighted by Mike our lecturer in Digital History caught my attention. The idea of a focus on education, the idea of re-education. An important lesson I felt could be applied was the idea of [ READ MORE ]
As part of the Digital History module we had to draft a report with an analysis of the data we input into excel from the images of census reports from 1911. Initially I had planned to compare the data which was made available to us from the 1901 census and compare those living in the [ READ MORE ]
I guess the most appropriate way of laying out this class is really to do it as it happened. The nature of the class took the form of discussion based around the questions below in italics. I guess the most appropriate way to deal with these questions is to answer them as we did in [ READ MORE ]
Well today we had a fairly intense class in all that’s Digital and History. As a relatively frequent blogger and user of such sites I’m fairly comfortable with this sort of stuff so the initial part of class although interesting and I did learn one or two tricks was a repeat of what we did [ READ MORE ]
Well today, the 30th of September I had my first class with the Ends of the Earth Module with Dr. Scully and Dr. Krasnodebska. And one of the exercises we had was to with our class partner, in my case Jenny, define what was Late Antiquity and what we would consider to be Early Insular. So [ READ MORE ]
Well, I’ve owned this domain for a number of years, and have continued to retain without any use. It’s been lingering away taking up server space. But no more. Here I go, again foraying into the world of more literary blogging. As previously I had blogged, and still do on a more casual sporadic basis [ READ MORE ]