manufacturing pasts: making the history accessible
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Manufacturing Pasts:Making the history accessible
London Digital Humanities Group, 30 April 2013Terese BirdLearning Technologist and SCORE Research Fellow
What will we talk about?
• Making the history accessible
• Audiences
• Evolving needs for digital humanities
Photo by esrad on Flickr
Making the history accessible
• No historiography of British industrial decline
• Dead zone: 70s – 90s
• Locked away
• Open materials
• Capture it now
• Not didactic but context
• AccessiblePhoto by Wesley Fryer on Flickr
Fires – the need to capture now
Accessible – how?• Saw connections, made the
mashups
• Created a website on top of the database
• Used social media
• Visited classes, groups, record office, libraries, conferences
• Made everything downloadable, mobile
• iTunes U
On the website you can listen to the professor…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVN4OOpKGMQ
Social Media: everyone joins in(Flickr, Prezi, Youtube, Scoop.it, Twitter)
Mobile
Audiences
• College librarians
• College students – extended project
• Currently-enrolled university students
• Local community
• Local historians
• Digital humanities scholars
Evolving Needs for the Digital Humanities Toolkit for researchers:
• Using visual sources in historical research
• Using oral testimony in historical research
• Provenance, judgement
Tools for students & teachers:
• Glossary, reference
• How to make your own
• How to reference
Key SkillsAnalyzing and drawing conclusions from primary sources, including image-based sources, is a key skill for historians and specialists in many fields, and utilising digitised primary sources has been effective in building such skills (Tally & Goldenberg, 2005)
Embedding in learning
• Gobbet papers
• Seminars around some of the materials; group work
• ‘Transformations’ module assessment will be built around
• PGCE Geography assessment will be built around
• PhD and Masters students will be introduced to these as research sources
References
• Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicestere. (2010). OTTER: Open, Transferable and Technology-enabled Educational Resources — University of Leicester. University of Leicester website. Retrieved March 12, 2012, from http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance/projects/otter
• Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicester. (2011). OSTRICH: OER Sustainability through Teaching & Research Innovation: Cascading across HEIs — University of Leicester. University of Leicester website. Retrieved March 12, 2012, from http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance/projects/ostrich
• Tally, B., & Goldenberg, L. B. (2005). Fostering Historical Thinking With Digitized Primary Sources. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 5191, 1-21. Retrieved from http://students.stritch.edu/dlcaven/Article2/DigitizedPrimarySources.pdf
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