Olivia Aldrich HIS5067

The past few weeks have been spent organizing the timeline, creating the timeline, and working on our presentation for the class. Joe has been tirelessly focused on making the heatmap of payphones and where they are located in Florida, sifting through tons of data to create a really awesome interactive tool to study payphones and where they are most abundant or least abundant.  In making the timeline , I have been really focused on making it as public history as possible - meaning, I want to include a lot of links to other readings, oral histories, videos, and more so that people looking at this timeline can essentially learn as much as they want. At face value, they will know that the evolution of telephone and cellphone technology affected jobs, societal gender roles, and how we interact with other humans on a global scale. However, with the connected readings, forum questions, and ability to read, watch, or listen, users can learn more, in the way they would want to learn more...

My partner Joseph has been working on a heatmap of payphones within the United States today, using Tableu, an open-source platform, to try and create this heatmap that we will incorporate into our interactive timeline on the social implications of the evolution of cellular technology. He also has plans to try and make lesson plans, if time permits, that teachers could use along with the timeline to discuss the evolution of this technology and the social changes it has brought about.  My main focus the past week has been organizing my wealth of information on the evolution of cellular technology. I have established my periodization, which will go from 1876 to 2010. The earlier dates will be briefer in technological information, as the Maitland A&H Telephone Museum has much more information on this earlier technology than it does on the social implications of this early technology and on the information of later 20th and 21st-century technology. Starting in 1960, the timeline wil...