Samantha Froemming's History Blog

  Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project: Since my last post before spring break, I have been continuing to work on editing my assigned biography for the rest of the semester's task. I have worked through most of the content within the biography, and this editing is mostly concerned with rewriting certain historical narratives that the original student mentioned, but may not have fully elaborated on. This has mostly been within the "Military Service" section of the biography, because previously, the "Early Life" section had been worked on by a graduate student, so I did not need to edit that section much. In my editing of the "Military Service" section, however, I had run into a slight bump in the road.  In this section, there was a brief note from either a graduate student or Dr. Lyons (we could not figure out for sure who wrote it since it has been a long time since the semester it was writt...

Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Bicentennial Exhibit Development project: This week is the same as the past two weeks (including spring break): working on our narrative text for the gallery cases! The other two undergraduate interns and I have been researching and writing our selected narrative themes/sections, and everything is looking great! We each chose five themes/narratives to work on, and I chose the three main introductory panels for the exhibit's overall purpose and background, and the first two themed panels for the Bicentennial in Florida in 1976. I have had a lot of fun going the research for these sections, especially the panel for Disney World's "America on Parade" that went on from 1975-1976 in honor of the 200th anniversary of the United States' adoption of the Declaration of Independence. The parade featured distinct "American" characters, such as pilgrims and suffragettes, to showcase the "people who bui...

Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project: Since last week, I have been working on editing the biography that I am picking up from last semester's assignment. So far, a lot of the work has been re-familiarizing myself with the content of the narrative and the sources that I have available from the original student's work from the course. As I mentioned last week, much of the story has already been looked over and edited by a previous graduate student, so the "Early Life" section barely needed any editing, and mostly consisted of me resolving comments on the document thread.  I am currently half-way through the "Military Service" section of the biography, which needs the most editing so far. Much of this has been rewriting rather than slight edits to the language or structure of the biography. Much of the information is either not cited well enough to track where the student got it from, or not quite co...

Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Bicentennial Exhibit Development project: We have been working on our digital component proposal and timeline since last week. The proposal and timeline were due on Friday (3/13) at 12pm, but we turned it in the day before! Our proposal introduced our method for the digital component which we chose to be a Canva twin of the physical exhibit. In our proposal, we explained why Canva was the best option for our digital exhibit (i.e. the department already has an account, it is simple to navigate, better accessibility etc.) and we also included a mock-up of what the Canva exhibit would look like and a proposed timeline for the creation process.  At first, our proposal for the digital component was going to be a Prezi digital exhibit. We originally chose this because it offered a more interactive feature to the digital component since Prezi allows the viewer to move around freely in the presentation without it needing to be lin...

Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Bicentennial Exhibit Development project: This week saw our first major deadline in the project: the gallery space floor plan! Since last week, we have been working to finalize our object list and create our floor plan for the physical space that the exhibit will be displayed in. After finalizing the object list, I created the floor plan in Procreate (on my iPad), which was modeled after the current 4th Floor Gallery space in the UCF library. During our team's tour of the gallery space a few weeks ago, we decided that the current floor plan in that space would nicely fit our exhibit and there would be no need to alter it from what it already is. The current gallery space has a great flow throughout the cases' positions, and it allows space for any accessibility needs like wheelchairs, crutches, canes, etc. The floor plan I created also included a key that detailed each label on the exhibit floor plan cases. To accompan...

Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project: This week officially began our next phase for this semester's assignments: biography editing! As my previous post mentioned, last we have each chosen a biography from a previous semester to edit for publishing by the end of the semester. I will be continuing to edit the biography that I started editing last semester before we were assigned to the packets. In our meeting, we discussed our progress with the biographies that we chose in a previous meeting this semester, and how we were going to approach them this semester. The biography I had chosen to edit last semester is in better shape than others in terms of bulk editing because I had work on it last semester, but also because a graduate student had previously worked on it as well. This means that I will hopefully be able to get the editing done quickly and efficiently since the Early Life section has been edited before I was assig...