Monthly Archives: October 2013

Complicating People as Much as History

Posted on October 7, 2013 by whymemory

The articles by Ho, Brennan and Kelly, and Gutterman have me thinking about how we define interactivity and the people for whom interactives are designed. I’m not sure yet if interactivity is standing in for “collecting” or is a distinct … Continue reading →

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyOtlvfaM6I

Posted on October 7, 2013 by chand1776

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyOtlvfaM6I Since we’ve been talking about living history and different ways of interpreting I dug up this link.  In Savannah I worked for the Owens-Thomas House Museum.  We ran a variety of living history programs detailing what life was like … Continue reading →

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“What Can You Do with a Story Map?”

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Susan Prillaman

As “History 2.0: Digital and New Media History Resources” shows, quite a lot. Add the full text of Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web to open source web publishing software by Omeka and … Continue reading →

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Good Morning Yesterday

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Andrea

After reading Stephanie Ho’s article, “Blogs as Public History,” I was curious to see if Lam Chun See was still blogging. He is! After browsing his blog for a few minutes (which was just updated 8 hours ago!) I learned … Continue reading →

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