anneladyemmcdivitt – THATCamp Florida 2012 http://florida2012.thatcamp.org The Humanities and Technology Camp Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:50:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Digital humanities and Public History http://florida2012.thatcamp.org/02/17/digital-humanities-and-public-history/ Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:16:51 +0000 http://florida2012.thatcamp.org/?p=152 Continue reading ]]>

With my participation in THATCamp, my hope is that we can find ways to link the digital aspect to public history initiatives. Within my time in the Public History program at UCF, I’ve discovered new and interesting ways to link the two, such as social media and Omeka. I’m hoping that we can explore ways of promotion/marketing and figure out ways to create a positive and useful relationship between the digital and the historical. Recently, this was utilized in a project regarding the Sanford Student Museum, in which myself and another graduate student used Omeka, Twitter, and Facebook in an effort to create more visibility and community building. A workshop focusing on the creative use of these digital tools to market and establish more emotional connections to historical buildings, museums, etc. could be quite helpful.

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