3D printers and tweeting lobsters: NCPH 2013 is underway

18 April 2013 – Cathy Stanton

methods, digital history, profession, training, NCPH, conference, THATCamp

The public history twitterverse is an ever-livelier place, to the point that the relative absence of public historians (as at this year’s Organization of American Historians conference, held jointly with the National Council on Public History last spring but separately this year) correlates to a sharp decline in social media traffic, as David Austin Walsh reported last week.

For those not following the Twitter feed for #ncph2013, here’s a quick selection of tweeted thoughts from the first day, which featured a number of workshops and working groups and the third THATCamp NCPH. Even from afar, it’s pretty easy to tell that Devon Elliott’s 3D printer was the star of the day!

@HistoryBoots
Public historians investigating a 3D printer. Soon we will have our own replica statue in plastic.

@rizzo_pubhist: partnership & collaboration–so far on day 1 of #ncph2013 these are the watchwords (no surprise!).

@MarlaAtUmass: 18 countries represented at this year’s meeting — largest international turn-out yet.

@cjceglio: #THATCamp is getting underway! Have used my analog sign making, paper hanging, and scissors skills-all before 9:30

@munitionette: Listening about p.h. programs and tensions between theory and practice around the world. Lots of common issues.

@material_world: Impt. to think about how the Best Pract Document on Public History Programs might be used. Will some programs be found inadequate?

@MarlaAtUmass: Now in session on students & digital skills. How do digital tools replicate &/or disrupt trad’l methods?

@ModupeLabode: When is a digital project finished? When the class is over? When it’s no longer active? When it becomes inaccessible?

@conservadora: rich ideas of articulated intentions in teaching PH linger from my working group discussion earlier today.

‏@material_world: Imagine a university hiring a public historian NOT charged to begin a PH program. What would that look like?

‏@MarlaAtUmass: Metaskills of conceptualizing a project more important than learning particular tools.

@rizzo_pubhist: deli across the street from #ncph2013 not only had great smoked meat, but a manager with a deep love & knowledge of local history.

@DDMeringolo: The creation of Ottawa as a capital city nearly eradicated the history of Ottawa’s labor history. #laborwalkingtour

@pubhisint: How can we best use the Public History Commons? Its like a year round and continuous annual meeting!

@ModupeLabode: At #THATCamp learned about @HowHoraceRolls : Invertebrates, too, can tweet

@HowHoraceRolls
Just a simple office lobster that found myself living in the walls of Canada’s largest history organization. This is how I roll.
In the baseboard @HDInstitute