For my group’s peak project this semester we were tasked with making A Queer History of Concordia. I was initially kind of worried about taking on this topic. I am not part of the LGBTQ+ community and I almost felt not allowed to take on this topic because it is not my story to tell.… Continue reading Peak Project
Author: Eli Hulstein
Oregon Trail
The historical game that I chose to play was Oregon Trail. It is a game that I have heard a ton about but have never really had time to sit down and play it. I played through it one time and had every person in my party die pretty quickly. I feel like that is… Continue reading Oregon Trail
3D Printing
3D printing is a relatively new technology that has become very popular for many different types of people and organizations. There are many people who use it as a hobby and make things for use around the house. There are also many uses for 3d printing in engineering when making prototypes for different things that… Continue reading 3D Printing
Living with Machines
The Crowdsourcing project that I took part in was titled Living with Machines. The project is supposed to show how people were living through and adjusting to the industrial revolution how machines were affecting everyone’s lives. The purpose of the project is to train machine learning algorithms so that computers can do this task instead… Continue reading Living with Machines
Mapping Inequality
The digital history project that I will be reviewing is Mapping Inequality(Redlining in New Deal America). It looks to gather documents from the federal government’s Home Owners Loan Corporation between 1935 and 1940. What these documents contain is basically information on how desirable a certain area of land is worth based on the demographic of… Continue reading Mapping Inequality
First Blog Post
My Name is Eli Hulstein. I am from Willmar Minnesota. I am a Computer Science major with a minor in Mathematics. I am taking this course because it fulfills an interdisciplinary elective for my computer science major. This course has been a little different than I was expecting so far but I have found the… Continue reading First Blog Post
