Digital Humanities Tools

 Reflecting on the digital humanities component of this course, I think that learning new digital humanities tools has been very beneficial for me. Before taking this course, I was not really much of a visual person and mainly stuck to just writing essays for projects. If I used any presentation tools in the past, it would just be simple things like Google Slides or Prezi. I never really tried to branch out to learn other tools to do projects on, and I did not really see the benefit of learning a new tool to be honest. Now that I have learned tools like Neatline and Omeka, I definitely am able to see the benefits of using these types of tools for projects. With Neatline, I think that being able to use the map and make points on it as well as include a timeline, it makes for a more interesting way to organize the information. It also makes it clear to the audience where in the world and when the information is related to. It would be a lot more difficult to plot points on a map if I was using something else like Prezi or Google Slides, which don’t have map features like Neatline does. Therefore, I think that Neatline helps me visualize things a lot better, and it makes it easier to explain things in presentations as well. With Omeka, I like how you can arrange information into different tabs. It has helped me learn to organize information in presentations more effectively. I think that these tools would be effective for me in the future if I ever wanted to make a presentation using these types of tools.