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Poster Session at the History of Ed
Posted on November 18, 2009 | No CommentsAt the beginning of the year I was asked to participate in a poster session for the History of Education Society’s Annual Meeting. I have done a few things with... -
40th anniversary of the moon landing
Posted on July 22, 2009 | No CommentsWhat space junky, almost historian, geek would I be without posting a little bit about some of the best type of history in existence. I refer, of course, to the... -
WTTGG #3
Posted on March 21, 2008 | No CommentsI almost forgot for this week, but found some stuff today, so here goes…. And a small disclaimer, or explanation first. Instead of just making this a list of cool... -
Graphical representations of genealogy
Posted on March 5, 2008 | No CommentsI have this thought, and it was brought to mind again by an article on Wired which linked to this artists (Jason Salavon) work with the US census data. Basically,... -
Soviet music
Posted on May 22, 2007 | No CommentsI’m looking for some good soviet music to use as a light background music to the flash timeline. Here are two good sites that catalog and preserve the history of... -
The MA is done, but the map is not….
Posted on May 16, 2007 | No CommentsI just turned in my last thing for the MA! I’m a Master! I do the commencement and walking and stuff tomorrow night. Well, I showed the Yahoo Map and... -
Making progress
Posted on May 11, 2007 | No CommentsI took out the audio from the intro because it just wasn’t working. Perhaps a voice recording about the fall of communism would be better. I worked on the timeline... -
How does the yahoo/flash map work…
Posted on May 11, 2007 | No CommentsThere’s a lot of tutorials out there, but here’s how I got it to work. The Plan Got what? Oh, well, basically it’s being able to use yahoo maps, flash,... -
xml, and lots of time.
Posted on May 5, 2007 | No CommentsBack again. Only two weeks left of school. I spent the past two days trying to work XML into the picture for the time line aspect. The thought was, if... -
Getting it to work.
Posted on April 26, 2007 | No CommentsI’m finally getting somewhere with the Yahoo/Flash map. The latest is always viewable at http://chnm.gmu.edu/1989/maps/yahoo.html. Tonight I worked on getting the title and description to show up nice. The description...