Initially, I was very confused as to what Professor\nJess meant when she said that we were going to use digital tools to look and\nexamine the 1930\u2019s and the Great Depression because, there wasn\u2019t much of the \u201cdigital\u201d\naspect to technology at that time (at least to my knowledge). However, going through\nmy readings I learned that by using interactive tools and using modern technology\nto look at that past in a new perspective, it opens up a new narrative that helps\nus understand and examine that time period in a new way. I also appreciate the\ndifferent platforms we are using to discuss the events that occurred. We are\ntalking about events during the Great Depression that maybe weren\u2019t so talked\nabout in high school, giving us a chance to fully comprehend the era. By giving\nus podcasts, videos, and articles to listen\/read, it builds on that previous statement\nof helping us comprehend by giving us different methods of absorbing the\ninformation if one way helps us learn better than the other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The project\ngiven to me was \u201cThe Knotted Line\u201d, an interactive tool that helps examine and\nmeasure \u201cfreedom\u201d and uses miniature paintings from movements throughout the\nUnited States between the 1940\u2019s and now to explore the question \u201cHow is\nfreedom measured?\u201d. It also allows for people to insert their own experiences\non if they ever felt as if they weren\u2019t allowed to publicly gather with people\nlike them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To\nanalyze it using Miriam Posner\u2019s framework, \u201cThe Knotted Line\u201d would be considered\na gallery of primary sources that uses multimedia (i.e miniature paintings from\nthe movements) to examine the different movements and the extent that freedom\nhad in that particular era. By making it interactive and available to insert personal\nexperiences, it allows the user to compare changes, if any, that have occurred in\nterms of the \u201cfreedom\u201d movement through the late 20th<\/sup> and 21st<\/sup>\ncentury. It also allows the user to move along the timeline and view other\npeople\u2019s responses, so one could see other people\u2019s experiences in addition to\ntheir own. However, the timeline itself seemed a bit difficult to use. The\nlines would just move as you move your cursor over it and you have keep\nclicking until you eventually find a piece of information hidden under the\ninteractive lines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sources: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Posner, Miriam. \u201cHow Did They Make That?\u201d Miriam\nPosners Blog<\/em>, 1 Feb. 2014,\nhttp:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/how-did-they-make-that\/#network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Knotted Line<\/em>, http:\/\/knottedline.com\/tkl.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Initially, I was very confused as to what Professor Jess meant when she said that we were going to use digital tools to look and examine the 1930\u2019s and the Great Depression because, there wasn\u2019t much of the \u201cdigital\u201d aspect to technology at that time (at least to my knowledge). However, going through my readings … Continue reading “Blog #1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dighist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}