megan smeznik, college of wooster and ncph digital media group
Proposal Type
Workshop
Seeking
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
- Data/Information Management
- Digital
- Teaching and Training
Abstract
The NCPH Digital Media Group is organizing the second annual Digital Public History Lab – a workshop that provides opportunities for collaborative learning and professional networking around digital resources, skills, and strategies for public historians and professionals working in adjacent fields (e.g. librarianship, educational technologists/instructional technologists, etc.). The workshop will consist of a combination of pre-planned breakout sessions and sessions on topics generated by participants on the day of the workshop. Digital Public History Lab is an informal, inclusive, participatory experience. All levels of tech-savviness (or lack thereof) are welcome.
Description
Participants will leave the Digital Public History Lab having had the opportunity to experiment with a variety of digital tools and with knowledge of the various challenges, theories, and best practices surrounding the use of digital technologies in public humanities work. The workshop offers a variety of breakout sessions (some pre-planned and some developed on-the-spot on the day of the workshop) that provide opportunities for participants to teach, learn, experiment, trouble-shoot, discuss, and create alongside each other. This workshop is highly collaborative and participant-driven. Pre-planned sessions might include topics such as:
— digital humanities pedagogy
— mapping and timelines
— digitization
— VR in historical interpretation
— WordPress
— Omeka and/or other CMS platforms
…the possibilities are endless! We are seeking topic suggestions for break out sessions as well as volunteers to facilitate them.
A few sessions planned at the workshop based on participant interests and expertise also will be included. Each breakout session will include time for participants to experiment with digital tools in a hands-on way, providing more opportunities for them to discover how they can apply digital technologies to their own projects.”
If you have a direct offer of assistance, sensitive criticism, or wish to pass along someone’s contact information confidentially, please get in contact directly: Megan Smeznik, College of Wooster and NCPH Digital Media Group, [email protected]
All feedback and offers of assistance should be submitted by July 6, 2020. If you have general ideas or feedback to share, please feel free to use the comments feature below.
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Sounds like a lot of great possibilities here. How does what you propose compare to THAT Camp? (https://thatcamp.org/)
Keith,
This was started by members of the Digital Media group in NCPH and was originally built on the ThatCamp model. It has some differences with how it has been built over the years. I am just starting to take over in this role for NCPH in the Digital Media Group. Last year I was shadowing so I cannot really speak to all the specifics.
Sounds amazing! I would really encourage you to think about how to do this in a live session and also in a virtual one. The most recent NCPH newsletter stated “We don’t know for sure what COVID-19 has in store, but we expect virtual presentation options are likely to be available in some form, so we encourage all to submit.” There a number of people you could involve in this. Please let me know if you need some names!
Leisl,
Due to Covid-19 and the cancellation in March we did not have a chance to think through how to present this in a virtual fashion that would allow others to have a similar experience like the in person session. If you have individuals that you think would be a great fit for leading a session, please ask them to email me at [email protected]. Thanks.
Megan – I ran something similar at the AHA for years. We found that it was rather tough to recruit people to give mini / full workshops without tapping the same people for the pre-planned sessions every year. What we eventually did instead was work with the program committee to leave the line-up open ended, and wait until the program was set to mine it for DHers already committed to the conference.
I don’t know if doing something similar would be helpful to y’all or if you already have a system, but we saw it as a sustainable way to get in new folks involved. There are even some proposals floating out here right now (Bob Kibbee at HistoryForge.net comes to mind that I’ve seen so far) who might be willing to plan something.