by swayampr | Dec 2, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
While my project has changed, I am still trying to figure what the UI of my website will be. City plans tend to be static and insipid unless you are a city planner/architect/urban designer in which you start critiquing it. But I am getting ahead of myself. Currently...
by nesbit17 | Dec 2, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
As a variationist sociolinguist, my research focuses on the way language varies and changes in communities of speakers and concentrates in particular on the interaction of social factors (such as a speaker’s gender, ethnicity, age, degree of integration into their...
by Autumn Painter | Dec 1, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
This past summer at the Morton Village site, located in Central Illinois, the joint Michigan State University and Dickson Mounds Museum archaeological field school uncovered an artifact unique to the site. It is an zoomorphic sandstone block pipe, that we are...
by Nikki Silva | Nov 29, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
Is the easy way always the best way? During the 1st semester of the fellowship, fellows are responsible for completing a series of tasks focused on certain topics such as project management, web mapping, and data visualization. As a returning fellow, I completed these...
by mahnkes1 | Nov 23, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
As evidenced through this month’s blog posts, the CHI cohort is putting together their initial plans for our main project. I had initially wanted to focus on how nostalgia imprints itself and is used on physical places as a means of sustaining culture; however, the...
by Jessica Yann | Nov 18, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
I’ve been thinking a lot these last few weeks about my project for my CHI fellowship. As I have mentioned before, I strongly believe in making archaeology accessible to a broad range of people. In my work with the State Archaeologist of Michigan, as well as...
by Erin Pevan | Nov 15, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
Since my last blog, I’ve ruminated upon the overall purpose of my CHI project; it first shall serve as the digital component to my Master’s thesis, and it second shall serve as that culmination of my background in history, information technology, and anthropology. But...
by nesbit17 | Nov 11, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
As the semester rolls on and we are tasked with trying to visualize our CHI projects, I am feeling a little stressed and inspired, all at the same time! As I’ve said before, my project is going to center around the research I’ve been conducting in the...
by Jack Biggs | Nov 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
As it gets later and later into the semester, I’ve started trying to put together ideas for my CHI project. While I’ve been thinking about what specifically I would like to do, there was one notion that kept popping up in my head: make accessible, usable,...
by nelso663 | Nov 6, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
This past Friday, we talked about licensing. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m interested in information and communication technologies (ICTs) and traditional knowledges (TK), which are the product of the intricate relationships between indigenous peoples and...
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