National Council on Public History
From Digital-JumpStart
National Council on Public History
Currents of Change
- March 10-14, 2010, Portland Oregon
- Digital Jump Start Working Group 1-B, Thursday, March 11 (8:00 - 10:00 am)
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How often do your digital project ideas sit untouched and never progress to the planning and implementation stages? This un-conference-like 90 minute session will help public historians think about their goals for reaching audiences with digital media, and fellow participants and the session leaders will brainstorm open-source or free tools that can help accomplish those goals. This session will be most useful for those contemplating projects such as an online exhibition, mobile content delivery, collecting stories or photographs from different audiences, or creating a digital archive. Pertinent open-source or free tools may include: Drupal, WordPress, Omeka, Flickr, Phone Gap, mapping tools, or wikis. This is not a planning session for digitization projects or a hands-on workshop for teaching participants how to use these tools. We hope that participants will come with well-formed idea and leave with a to-do list and plan for implementing the project.
We envision everyone meeting together for the first fifteen minutes for introductions and then we will break into smaller working groups for brainstorming and planning for one hour. In these smaller groups, the participants will drive the discussions about specific project ideas and brainstorm ways to make those projects possible. We want participants to share any of their past experiences with building digital projects. We may also touch upon funding options. We will reconvene for the last fifteen minutes for general discussion and comments on the process and format.
Facilitators
- Sheila Brennan, Associate Director of Public Projects, Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
- Sharon Leon, Director of Public Projects, Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
- Tom Scheinfeldt, Managing Director, Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
