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Archive for April, 2008
Jump Start
Posted in history, tagged Jump Start, Middletown, One Laptop Per Child on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Pittsburgh on the News Hour
Posted in history, narrative, oral history, place, tagged John Wiedeman, Lehrer News Hour, oral history association, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Terrance Hayes on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Oral History Association will meet in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 15-19, 2008. The conference theme is “A Convergence of Interests: Oral History in the Digital Age.”
The Lehrer News Hour has run a series profiling Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in connection with the Pennsylvania Democratic Party primary election. In “My Town,” author John Wiedeman offers a [...]
Landscapes of Dayton History
Posted in Dayton, cultural heritage, history, museums, tagged American Memory Project, Dayton, Dayton History, Dayton Metro Library, Library of Congress, Ohio, OhioLink, OPLIN, Sanborn Insurance Maps on April 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I write about the museums and parks of Prince Edward Island with an eye to what lessons I can carry away to Dayton and Ohio’s Miami Valley. We are a city of rivers, set in a valley with hills rising away on either side. I love the view of the city spread out before [...]
PEI: Oral Histories at the Greenwich Interpretation Centre
Posted in Prince Edward Island, cultural heritage, history, museums, narrative, oral history, tagged beach, Confederation Trail, dunes, oral history, Parks Canada, PEI, Prince Edward Island on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The windswept Northeastern shore of Prince Edward Island faces towards the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the North Atlantic. Parks Canada’s Greenwich Interpretation Centre is the gateway to a meandering hiking path with views of the prosperous mussel farms of St. Peters Bay, farm fields, and ponds as well as the unusual shifting, parabolic dunes [...]
Omeka: Internet Exhibits Made Much Easier
Posted in Dayton, Ohio, Ohio Humanities Council, Omeka, civic engagement, cultural heritage, history, museums, oral history, public history, tagged archives, blog, Center for History and New Media, DaytonCreate, digital collections, digital exhibits, museums, Ohio Humanities Council, Omeka, wordpress on April 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Center for History and New Media, in partnership with the Minnesota Historical Society, released Omeka this past winter. Omeka is a web platform or publishing tool for sharing collections and producing exhibitions online. Omeka is available free to download and it is open source, permitting all kinds of modifications as well as [...]
Editorializing dogs
Posted in history, popular history, tagged American revolution, digital history, dogs, historical documents, history carnival, primary sources on April 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The blog Baudrillard’s Bastard features an amusing and probably instructive perspective on the activities of dogs in history.
I found this link via Walking the Berkshires’ early modern history carnival, Carnivalesque XXXVIII (Early Modern) Tabloid Edition by subscribing to Finding paths to digital history news feeds.
23 (or 43) Things #3: Evaluate Internet Sites
Posted in 23 (or 43) Things, Education, National History Day, history, tagged evaluating internet sites, History Matters, Robert Harris, student research, VirtualSalt on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Internet seems to provide, with a few clicks, answers to any question that might be assigned in high school or college courses. Of course, if you dive in and simply harvest those answers you are committing plagiarism. Another problem that we all face is how to identify a trustworthy source on the Internet. Like [...]
Planning for Change
Posted in history, tagged higher education, strategic planning, universities on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Ohio Association of Historical of Historical Societies and Museums has offered workshops in strategic planning at their annual conference. A facilitator lead the Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board through a formal process called a SWOT analysis (Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats) to review the board’s current status and develop future plans. [...]
Boyerized
Posted in civic engagement, history, public history, scholarship, tagged academic, Boyer, Carnegie Foundation, Imagining America, promotion and tenure, public history, scholarship on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Each year at the National Council on Public History annual meeting, public history educators discuss the failure of departmental definitions of scholarship to reflect the work of public history faculty. Although historians seem deeply resistant to recognizing scholarship in both applied history and history education, this year there were some promising signs of change. [...]
Dayton Public Schools: Veterans History Project
Posted in Dayton, Education, history, narrative, oral history, tagged Dayton, Dayton Public Schools, Stivers School for the Arts, Veterans History Project on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
AP Reporter James Hanna’s article, Voices of Ex Soldiers Find Their Way into the Classroom looks at a Miami Valley project to distribute texts featuring veterans’ stories. The American Veterans Institute aims to “promote a greater appreciation of military service” with these books.
Students in Stivers School for the Arts teacher Bridget Federspiel’s classes [...]
