How have digital tools made it easier to teach about and help our audience(s) engage with the past? Technology and digital history have made it easier now more than ever to connect with history and engage with the past in ways that were not possible before. Digital tools such as data visualizations, interactive maps, and […]
Overview: My final project is an oral history activity that is intended to be used in a US history classroom. The topic of my final project is on the removal of the families that resided in the Blue Ridge Mountains within the boundaries of the Shenandoah National Park. This project is built off a previous […]
Final Project Concept: This week I have been working on putting together the final concept for the final project. I have shifted from creating a traditional lesson plan to creating an activity that uses oral histories and the digital exhibits that I have on my Omeka site. This activity can be used in a high […]
This question of using film in a museum setting is a bit of a challenging one. When I was a high school social studies teacher, I used film in my lesson plans to cater to the visual learners I had in my classroom. Now that I am out of the classroom and in a museum […]
Titanic I selected to watch the 1997 film, Titanic directed and produced by James Cameron. This film is based on the real-life maiden voyage and sinking of the luxury ocean liner the R.M.S. Titanic in the year 1912. I chose this film as it is my favorite film of all time, and I have been interested in this […]
At this point in the project, I have started to think about how I will use my digital exhibits in a lesson plan for teacher use on the teacher’s resources page on my Omeka site. I have done a bit of research about what kind of activities teachers use when they teach the Great Depression […]
How will digital media and/or digital tools be important to teaching your target audience about history and historical thinking? My final project will be an extension of my existing digital project that will be a teacher’s resource page which will include a lesson plan. The lesson plan will lay out how to use the interactive […]
What elements of historical thinking have remained at the heart of history teaching over the decades? There are some elements of historical thinking that history teachers have used as the tried and true methods for teaching history over the years. One of these methods is having students analyze sources, both primary and secondary. This element […]
For the final digital learning project, I wish to expand on the digital project I made last semester for the Digital Public History course. The digital project I created is an interactive map using an existing map of Shenandoah National Park titled “Map of Stony Man Region in the Shenandoah National Park” drawn by Tom […]
