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Manuel’s Tavern VR Demo

We have made a lot more progress on the Manuel’s Tavern project. This time, with the collaboration of other SIF fellows, I was able to put together a sneak peak to the future of the project. Users can now look at the picture frames and have some information pop up to...

Flat Rock Update

Dr. Glover and I visited Flat Rock Archives in Lithonia, Georgia on October 18th. Johnny, the resident of the archives, was very kind and welcoming to us both. He gave me a brief history of the community and how this project would contribute to their archives.  The...

A Rubric for Student Evaluations (Physics Education Project)

A Rubric for Student Evaluations (Physics Education Project)

During the Spring 2016 semester, I started a physics education project with Dr. Thoms of the Physics Department at GSU. I wrote a blog about it that can be found here. In that blog, I outlined the project and what Dr. Thoms and I are setting out to do. We have...

RAP MAP – Tracing Atlanta’s Organized Noise

RAP MAP – Tracing Atlanta’s Organized Noise

Following up from my last blog about what I have been doing at SIF, I wanted to go in to deeper detail of on the Rap Map project I have been working on. The reason I wanted to discuss this one particular project at length is because it is near completion i.e. we are...

Manuel’s Tavern Project Progress

Manuel’s Tavern Project Progress

Hi guys, I am very excited to be put on this project. I've been a fan of 3D graphics and game design. This project has all of it. The goal we are trying to achieve with this project is to recreate the soon-to-be-renovated Manuel's Tavern. This particular tavern has a...

99 (Plus) Bottles of Beer on the Wall…

99 (Plus) Bottles of Beer on the Wall…

99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer. Take one down, pass it around, 98 bottles of beer on the wall... If one of those bottles should happen to fall, 98 bottles of beer on the wall... One of the side effects of having immersed myself in the Unpacking...

October Update!

October Update!

October has been quite an exciting month for me. I got to work on various projects listed below. Glass Plate Negative Photo Gallery: The task was to display the glass plate negative photographs from the 1920’s (Remember, we have done photo-stitching to merge Atlanta...

Progress with the Hoccleve Project!

Progress with the Hoccleve Project!

With the Student Innovation Fellowship program -  SIF for short - I've been working on the Hoccleve archive and making a lot of progress for adding in a search functionality. While working with my teammates, we've created updated XML files to be used along with the...

3D Atlanta big update

3D Atlanta big update

It has been over half a year since the last update on the 3D Atlanta project. Nonetheless, the project has constant been evolving and maturing. The 3D Atlanta group and I have been high at work to contribute our best to the project. At the time of the previous update,...

SIF Program & GSU Humanities Programs Receive National Grant

SIF Program & GSU Humanities Programs Receive National Grant

GSU’s Student Innovation Fellowship program and the departments of English and History have just been awarded a Next Generation Humanities PhD grant from the NEH designed to transform the culture of graduate education in the humanities and substantially broaden the...