PROPOSAL TYPE
Workshop/Conversation/Round-Robin
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Digital
- Oral History
- Preservation
- Public Engagement
ABSTRACT
We propose to conduct a 2hr working session with a hands-on, round robin component followed by open discussion focused on Documentation and Storytelling.
DESCRIPTION
Three people from NCPTT (Isabella Jones, Megan Suzann Reed, and Catherine Cooper) will bring technology that the Center uses in documentation projects to show the range of technology currently in use and spark brainstorming around how best to apply the technology and what needs rethinking or expansion. During the round-robin session, participants would spend 25 minutes with each of the stations: Isabella will show and discuss the capturing of Oral Histories using video and audio technologies; Megan Suzann will demonstrate laser scanning technology; Catherine will walk through the applications of 360 Matterport documentation. Participants will get to see and try the technology and ask questions. The session will end with 45 minutes of discussion focused on how to leverage these technologies in public storytelling, potential for crowd-sourcing, and the ethics involved in how and why we document stories and places this way. We would like feedback on the following themes: suggestions and ideas on how best to set up for the session, if we need to elaborate or create a focus on our proposal, is there a general interest in presenting this proposal for this conference, and how best to identify this session, is it more of a workshop, conversation or experimental?
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 Reed, National Park Service, [email protected]
ALL FEEDBACK AND OFFERS OF ASSISTANCE SHOULD BE SUBMITTED BY JULY 7, 2022. If you have general ideas or feedback to share, please feel free to use the comments feature below.
This sounds like a stimulating and useful workshop. Will there be a limit to how many people can fruitfully interact at each station?
This leans more towards workshop, but I’d love to see more experimental elements you have in mind. My only suggestion is to have a planned demo goal for each piece of technology when setting up (scan 1 page, record 10 second of video/audio, etc.). I’d also flip it and begin with how to leverage the technology and later move to demos.
Megan, a version of this proposed session could work well as part of the Digital Public History Lab workshop(s), which I’m co-organizing as part of the Professional Development committee. We’re still working out what form the DPHL will take in Atlanta, but if you’re open to this option, I’ll reach out via email.
This sounds great–something I would want to attend! I agree with Patrice and Julie that it seems like a proposal best suited to a workshop format. Includes this in the Digital PH Lab could be great!