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Reflecting on Digital History (Pandemic Edition) through Memes

by | Apr 28, 2020 | ,

I asked the students in HIST428–Adventures in Digital History to close out the semester with a meme reflecting on the semester in general or the class in particular. From Hunter D. From Dennis G.   Two from Eilise M. Digital History should be taken seriously meme The Farmer group was … Continue reading

Presenting the Adventures in Digital History 2020 Class Projects

by | Apr 25, 2020 | ,

[Cross-posted with the course site at https://courses.mcclurken.org/adh20/announcements/presenting-the-adventures-in-digital-history-2020-class-projects/ ] In a normal year, yesterday would have been the day in the semester when the students in Digital History would present their projects to an audience at the History and American Studies Department Spring Symposium.  This is a tradition that began back … Continue reading

A student perspective of the strangest semester in over 50 years

by | Apr 25, 2020 | ,

It has undoubtedly been one of the strangest semesters in the past 50 years ago. We started out as a we normally do then things changed suddenly in late February. Cases of the Coronavirus had appeared in Washington State and schools there started to close to slow the spread. In early March there were reported […]

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My Solar Charger

by | Mar 27, 2020 | ,

Every year my digital marketing class (Mktg 417) finds a product that would have good sales online. The students are tasked with creating a Facebook ad for the product and then we create the website and run the ad. Then we track the audience to the page using Google Analytics. This year’s winner is a […]

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The chaos (and growth) in the entertainment industry

by | Feb 20, 2020 | ,

Last week I had the pleasure of attending a talk given by our own Professor Dan Wolfe where he talked about how much the entertainment industry (TV and movies) has opened up. This is largely brought on by the online streaming services such as Netflix, Disney+, and Apple who are creating their own content. We’ve […]

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More municipalities are restricting Airbnb’s

by | Jan 1, 2020 | ,

Last year (2019) both Los Angeles and Washington D.C added more restrictions on Airbnb rentals. Both locations require hosts to only list their primary residence and put a restriction on how long the property can be rented via Airbnb (120 days and 90 days respectively). Toronto is implementing similar regulations in 2020. The rationale behind […]

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Blue-Light Glasses (Social media marketing)

by | Nov 7, 2019 | ,

For our social media marketing class the students were tasked with coming up with a product that we can sell via Shopify using dropshipping. The product that came out on top was blue-light glasses.  The had was shown on Facebook from coast to coast and generated dozens of views. If you want to view our […]

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