Comments on: My Journey to the Sonoran Desert http://mith.umd.edu/digitalstorytelling/2012/11/06/my-journey-to-the-sonoran-desert/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-journey-to-the-sonoran-desert HDCC 208B / Seminar in Digital Cultures and Creativity / Fall 2012 Mon, 11 May 2015 07:39:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Porter http://mith.umd.edu/digitalstorytelling/2012/11/06/my-journey-to-the-sonoran-desert/#comment-162 Porter Thu, 08 Nov 2012 01:59:42 +0000 http://mith.umd.edu/digitalstorytelling/?p=1302#comment-162 Emil: Great job creating an effect in this post. I feel thirsty just reading it. I also think you touched on something that's important when you said, "I went to the base of a mountain. To my tired eyes, it seemed more like a giant mound of dirt. I could see paintings on the side of it. It was probably drawn with some sort of clay many years ago. It looks a lot like a tribe of Native Americans out hunting. Whatever this masterpiece portrays, I hope that it will remain there in History for other travelers to marvel at." One of the things we haven't talked about is how tools such as Google Earth can be used to preserve vanishing historical, cultural, and natural features of our world. This is a mixed bag, right? Because we don't want to say, 'yeah, it's preserved digitally, so we can trash it now.' But we can leverage digital tools to make people care about things they wouldn't otherwise see, and thus act to preserve them--just like Muir and the national parks. Emil: Great job creating an effect in this post. I feel thirsty just reading it. I also think you touched on something that’s important when you said, “I went to the base of a mountain. To my tired eyes, it seemed more like a giant mound of dirt. I could see paintings on the side of it. It was probably drawn with some sort of clay many years ago. It looks a lot like a tribe of Native Americans out hunting. Whatever this masterpiece portrays, I hope that it will remain there in History for other travelers to marvel at.”

One of the things we haven’t talked about is how tools such as Google Earth can be used to preserve vanishing historical, cultural, and natural features of our world. This is a mixed bag, right? Because we don’t want to say, ‘yeah, it’s preserved digitally, so we can trash it now.’ But we can leverage digital tools to make people care about things they wouldn’t otherwise see, and thus act to preserve them–just like Muir and the national parks.

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