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In My Research, Teaching, and Public History
I have experience as a creator of digital history for teaching purposes, for research purposes, and for public history projects.
Created digital sources
from born-analogue documents
as born-digital audio podcast
as in-class, hybrid, and remote learning digital history units
Digitizing 200-year old Documents on a Research Trip to a Boston Archive
To make the best of my time on a research trip to the Massachusetts Historical Society, I digitized dozens of letters, account books, and diaries of merchants and founders of the Lowell mills (creating about 300 slides). It is a difficult project that must be done well in order to be useful, to avoid mixing documents (most of which could not be digitized in a single photo), to be viewable. Over the days I was there, my technique improved, but there is still room for improvement.
Short Podcasts and Films for Teaching
Created born digital audio content for Websites and Course Management Systems
Short podcasts to introduce a topic, document or assignment
Works particularly well for hybrid, online, independent learning, or flip-the-classroom pedagogies
Sample introduction to a document, which I made quickly and easily for an online Women's History course.
Dr Mo Spinning Lowell, part 1.
A clip of a reading from my manuscript.
A sample of a short podcast/video of mine for use in a course or for teaching about podcasts.
This one is clearly flawed, and can be analyzed for improvement.
Dr Mo Spinning Lowell, part 2
Created digital sources from born analogue documents
digitized primary source documents (such as letters, posters, photographs, newspapers, etc.)
created audio from analogue sources
Sample:
Letter to an Army Buddy, 1957
I digitized a collection of private papers for uses in teaching
Sample:
The Mill Girls Hit the Beach, c.1912
I digitized a collection of private photographs for teaching and research
Non-linear slide presentations as independent learning units/modules
PowerPoint and Prezi both have non-linear formats that are useful for in-class presentation/discussion and for remote and independent learning units (some learning systems have their own technology to prepare learning modules).
Non-linear digital representation is ideal for use as self-learning units to which I add audio narration
This format allows me to move seamlessly between in-class pedagogy, outside learning, hybrid learning, flip-the classroom techniques, and remote online learning.
The Working City Oral History Project
The Working City Oral History Project is a project I created, receiving a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, to interview people in Lowell, Massachusetts from various work backgrounds about how they managed during the city's prolonged economic depression.
I attended Columbia University's Oral History Institute.
Trained under award-winning labor and oral historian and radio broadcast producer, Charles Hardy.
Learned to create archival, broadcast-quality digital interviews and digital editing at a time when the technology and software were new and still difficult to use.
Ironically, this older digital technology is not easily accessible today.
1993-96
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