Colin McMunn

Finance student at Christopher Newport University 4.43 40 yard dash | Class account

[Colin McMunn @ColinMcMunn1]

@AllyW1109 I feel the same way. I never had trouble waking up early for this class. I also think it’s awesome that on my resume I am familiar with new programs such as GitHub.

[Colin McMunn @ColinMcMunn1]

This grant project was a really interesting way of putting all of our DH knowledge to work. Particularly for @sophbaxt and I. We ended up actually creating a DH project, and even thought it was not required, it was really fun to try to figure it out on our own.

[Colin McMunn @ColinMcMunn1]

Throughout this class, we looked at what Digital Humanities really was. For me, it is the sharing of digital information in a way that is interactive and educational to the user.

[Colin McMunn @ColinMcMunn1]

Since I was not able to be in class today, I had Sophia peer review my resume. She gave me a lot of great tips on how to improve, especially on how to describe each of my previous job experiences with stronger verbs and word structure.

[Colin McMunn @ColinMcMunn1]

I think the biggest thing that I took out of reviewing resumes was to leave out a picture of yourself. It can cause a lot of unintentional bias that can affect someone’s ability to get a job.

[Colin McMunn @ColinMcMunn1]

@bradya350 Same as me. One example is that I had information from high school in mine. It makes a lot of sense as to why I would exclude that stuff, but I never did. Now that I have excluded it, I have a lot more room for my most recent achievements.

[Colin McMunn @ColinMcMunn1]

Since I was out sick on Monday, I missed peer review. Dr. Stover was able to look over my groups and she wrote a ton of good notes for us to improve on. There’s definitely room for improvement as well haha.

[Colin McMunn @ColinMcMunn1]

@JBernhardtDH350 I wasn’t in class today, however from the examples we looked at in the past I found them to be very free flowing and like you said, concise.

[Colin McMunn @ColinMcMunn1]

As far as the budget goes, I think it’s really interesting that instead of paying the full expensive price for arcgis, through CNU we are able to save a lot of money and ultimately make our grant as inexpensive as possible.

[Colin McMunn @ColinMcMunn1]

This grant narrative is really helping our group visualize what our project will be. Also knowing that this project can just be a small piece of our grand idea is a major help, since i’m not completely sure how we would pull off a massive project.

[Colin McMunn @ColinMcMunn1]

Looking at this peer review, it is really helping our group visualize what our environmental scan was missing. It was already a difficult assignment due to the length, but seeing where we can add things is crucial.

[Colin McMunn @ColinMcMunn1]

@DTasselli246 @bradya350 This was quite the opposite from us. Interesting to see how you handle this, because since there is not much to build off of, you’ll have to really have some independent thinking.

[Colin McMunn @ColinMcMunn1]

Writing the environmental scan has been a true pain. It is incredibly difficult to smash all of this information into a single page. What we have done to bypass this is focusing on the most important subjects and putting it all together.

[Colin McMunn @ColinMcMunn1]

After doing more research on our project, we found that there are plenty of projects that center around the same idea. However, where we plan to differentiate ourselves in making it very user friendly.

[Colin McMunn @ColinMcMunn1]

Today in our meeting about where to go with our project, we discussed different type of programs to use for mapping. Our original thought was to use JS timeline, but after talking, we do not think it would properly support what we envisioned our project to be.

[Colin McMunn @ColinMcMunn1]

have some level of qualification before you apply.

[Colin McMunn @ColinMcMunn1]

While reading “what goes inside a typical grant proposal”, I found it interesting that a lot of grants will have requirements to apply, whether that is a doctoral degree or being a US citizen. This does make sense though, considering that you’ll be given a sum of money and should

[Colin McMunn @ColinMcMunn1]

I have the same thought in my head. I’m curious to see if the size and idea for my project will be big enough to make this grant proposal strong. If not then I feel like i’m stuck since I don’t really have an alternative.

[Jamie @Jamie_DH350]

In anticipation of our feedback on the grant abstracts, I'm wondering if my potential project on hashtag popularity of pandemic anti-fashion trends is suitable for the size we're going for and the netlytic tool. I was so torn on another project about faithful representations of..

[Colin McMunn @ColinMcMunn1]

The project I am reviewing is a map that tells the stories of holocaust survivors who have some connection to the state of Georgia. I’m finding this much easier to see the ways this project can improve compared to Review 1.

[Colin McMunn @ColinMcMunn1]

@sophbaxt peer review was awesome. She showed me that I started really strong, and throughout the blog I got more and more off topic. She gave me helpful tips and good pointers for ways I could fix this.