Final Reflection

This class was a learning experience for me to make sure that I chose a topic that I was interested in and I could complete the technical requirements as well.

I had some wins and losses in terms of the final project. I had issues with getting the reCAPTCHA working, trying to figure out which plugins to use, and trying to get my website to not crash with every click. What I learned was to use a different version of reCAPTCHA, use only the plugins that are necessary, and don’t download too many plugins otherwise it will crash your website. The wins I achieved was finally finding Public Domain sources that I could post to the web and making my website coherent in some fashion.

This wasn’t the project that I initially wanted and hoped for but I think with the time-constraints and the historical topic that I chose, I made a good effort in bringing this topic to life. It was a difficult class in terms of not only reading and understanding the material but also putting it into practice based on my ideas for my project. In the future, I would want to expand on this website by creating a social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter, and maybe even Instagram. Also to gather more artifacts from users. I will also want to create a computer game from this topic so that people can have another way of learning about history.

At the beginning of the semester, I had high hopes of what I could do for my digital public history project and that it could be done in a semester. This has taught me that some work can’t be done in a single semester, that you need to take the time and energy to plan your work out and then work your plan. Giving yourself enough time to make mistakes and fix them.

Digital Public History is not just one thing combined with another. It’s a process that involves many parts to coordinate to make the project work. This class was just a snippet of that and I’ve been on a roller coaster through it all and I think came out okay on the other side.