images, teaching, technology…..
I was pleased to participate in this roundtable (PDF) about the possible digital paths for The Public Historian. As the flagship publication for the National Council on Public History, the future of the journal is an important thing for us all to consider. I hope you’ll read the perspectives here, and offer your own.
[This post was inspired by a panel on the Envisioning the Future of Public History Training at National Council of Public History 2012 in Milwaukee.] The increasing interest number of courses and concentrations focusing on public history suggests that we need to have a serious conversation about what are the skills that are necessary for …
[Cross-posted from the Visualizing the Past blog for the NCPH2012 working group “Graphs, Maps, and Trees: Imagining the Future of Public Interfaces to Cultural Heritage Collections”] In the very useful survey of the “history web” in their 2005 book Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web , Dan …
On Sunday, I had the pleasure of organizing and facilitating a Digital-JumpStart session with Michael Edson at the American Association of Museums meeting in Los Angeles. We were joined and assisted by 30 wonderful facilitators and well over 100 participants. For 2:45 minutes we worked together in unconference style to share our lessons learn, questions …
This is a revised and expanded version of a talk I gave at MITH’s Digital Dialogue series on April 14. It is Part III of III. Read Part I and Part II. III. Digital Public History and Knowledge Creation If we’re not doing enough to help the general audience learn about history, how can we …