Posts Tagged ‘history’

13
Jul
2021

VR director and storyteller Charlotte Mikkelborg

categories: AR

Tudors Augmented

https://www.storyfutures.com/showcase/tudors-augmented

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5 thoughts with VR director and storyteller Charlotte Mikkelborg

https://kr-asia.com/5-thoughts-with-vr-director-and-storyteller-charlotte-mikkelborg

There are still a very limited number of VR headsets compared to TVs and mobile phones, even in rich countries.

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more on AR in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=Augmented+reality

https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=augmented+reality+history

 

17
Apr
2021

Poland History House: a Virtual Museum

categories: VR

https://connect.ala.org/acrl/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=201cb2b4-2641-446e-aef3-8c5415498be2&CommunityKey=aea34cd1-cbc4-4304-8527-ff61e5607522&Home=/acrl/communities/community-home/recent-community-events

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/103/107/21

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more on virtual worlds in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=virtual+worlds

 

15
Apr
2021

digitized court cases

categories: academic library, distance learning, distributive learning, e-learning, ebook, educational technology, information technology

Thousands of 16th, 17th and 18th century court cases – including witchcraft, missing children and swan thefts – are coming to light for the first time thanks to a Cambridge University Library archives project from r/books

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/Ely_Assizes2

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more on history in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=history

04
Feb
2021

why do we fight wars

categories: academic library

Why do we fight wars?

Margaret MacMillan gives a lecture on the reasons for conflict throughout history – and how warfare has shaped the human story

https://www.historyextra.com/period/modern/why-do-we-fight-wars-margaret-macmillan-podcast/

Link to the podcast (also available in the Apple store: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-do-we-fight-wars/id256580326?i=1000507092044)
https://play.acast.com/s/historyextra/whydowefightwars-

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Just War Theory:

https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2021/01/14/virtual-philosophy-colloquium/

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more on history in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=history

17
Jan
2021

archiving presidential materials

categories: academic library, information literacy

My note: Both “The Guardian” and “Outside the Beltway” are left-leaning and these publications may be perceived as “political.”
The significance of preserving documents, however, is well presented in both publications.
The Guardian, however, present a well-done overview of the history and mechanics for preservation of documents, in this case, presidential.

Historians having to tape together records that Trump tore up

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/17/historians-having-to-tape-together-records-that-trump-tore-up

Trump Routinely Shreds Documents He’s Required to Preserve

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/outside-the-beltway/

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more on archiving in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=archive

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