Mother. Wife. Youth Advocate. Student.
The opioid crisis is discussed often but very much overlooked or ignored in hopes that things will just get better on their own. British Columbia is at an all-time high when it comes to illicit drug toxicity deaths but not much is being done. There is a critical need to bring awareness to the issue…
This week’s readings and videos all had a similar theme around the theories of critical thinking in digital humanities. All of the articles we read spoke to how digital humanities is both changing and its growth over the years and the ones we watched made me question the purpose of it. The written articles also…
Below is a storymap of mine and my family’s travels over the summer. I hope you enjoy it!
For my digital humanities project, I want to use the tools we have learned in class to highlight the current state of the opioid epidemic that Canada, more specifically British Columbia is in. This is a very important topic that can be a hard conversation to have for many. With this project, I want to…
This week in class, we were asked to create a timeline based on a humanities topic of our choice. For my timeline, I wanted to show the class a brief overview of the history of feminism. Feminism is an important topic/issue to me because I feel as though it is not fully understood or talked…
For my digital humanities project, I would like to share with you a timeline and geographical map of a local pipeline project that is happening in and around our community. The pipeline I have chosen to use as an example is the Coastal GasLink Pipeline Project. I am simply using this project for my data…
Below is my twine story, let me know what you think!!
I used Voyant Tools to analyze a text from Alan Liu’s Data Collections and Datasets. The text that I chose is The Prelude, 1850 version, below is the analysis of the text. This corpus has 14 documents with 58,377 total words and 8,087 unique word forms. Created now. Document Length: Longest: book06 (5722); book07 (5615); book08 (5046); book01 (4808); book03 (4663) Shortest: book12 (2473); book13 (2794); book14 (3338); book11 (3489); book02 (3500) Vocabulary Density: Highest: book12 (0.406); book13 (0.384); book14 (0.382); book07 (0.379); book04 (0.378) Lowest: book06 (0.350); book05 (0.350); book01 (0.356); book02 (0.361); book10 (0.368) Average Words Per…
This week in class we had to use an optical character recognition program to digitize a page of text. The program I chose to download and use was Office Lens. I chose this program because I frequently use Office 365 and am familiar with other Office programs. After it was downloaded on my phone and…
Throughout this class, I have always tried to make posts about things that are meaningful or important to me. This week in Omeka (http://archives.bflorell.com/cms/items) I posted videos about two trips that me and my fiance have been on. One was to Hawaii right before COVID and the other is of the local bubble house that…
