Week 11 - Digital Outreach

Week 11: Digital Outreach - Exhibits and Classrooms

DIGITAL EXHIBITS

Exhibit Goals
Digital Exhibits vs. Traditional

Tactics

Through Our Parent's Eyes: targeting a community's ethnic composition
William Osler: celebrating anniversaries
America's Historical Documents: showcasing prime collections or items with intrinsic/iconic value
Elgin County Archives: celebrating local history, events, people, places
Popular genres American Civil War Homepage
Expo 67: the use of "retro" and nostalgia
Halifax Explosion
T.G. Hamilton Exhibit

DIGITAL CLASSROOMS

The First Stage: Providing Digital Access

The National Archives Digital Vaults (now)and original

Calisphere - A World of Primary Sources and More

The Second Stage: Bringing Teachers into the Process

The Promise of Digital Classrooms

Key Educational and Distance Learning Sites:

Canada's SchoolNet (now disbanded) and replaced by E-Pals
EdSitement (U.S.)
Library of Congress digital classrooms (formerly American Memory site)
UK National Archives Digital Classrooms

ARCHIVES FOR KIDS
Hey, We're Moving into Town: Rural Depopulation - An Exhibit for Kids
The Alaska Highway: A Yukon Perspective

FUTURE PROSPECTS

Learning from other Cultural Institutions
Museums and the Web Conference Site - Best of the Web Awards

Reanimating Records - The Digital Delivery of Primary Sources
The Prelinger Archive (over 2000 'ephemeral' films)

The importance of using Social Media for outreach projects

Your Archives (a wiki for archival users) - Discovery - 2012 catalog

DIY/History: Taking advantage of crowdsourcing

Taking advantage of YouTube - University of Manitoba Archives and Facebook

Sound of the Archives - UW-Madison Archival Studies program's student blog

HistoryPin

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