Thursday 5 July 2018

What we did in the Digital Historian Project

My friend and colleague Alanna King (@banana29) recently blogged about our LLC annual report.  It started a few years ago as a way to explain to administration what we did other than check out books.  I love creating the slideshow and looking back on all of the different things we do each year.

This year I also created a slideshow for the Digital Historian Project that I was a part of for the first time.  I originally created the slideshow for a PD session for Community and Connected Learning at our board, and as a look back on our year for the student graduation.  Inspired by Alanna to share what we did, here's my review of the Digital Historian Project (DHP)




I loved my time with the DHP.  As you can see we started working with the students in semester one even though the program didn't start until semester two.  It is truly an experiential learning opportunity as the students immerse themselves in work that is very integrated between subjects and some of their work is used by the Dufferin Museum as well.

I'd like to thank Asher Kirk-Elleker for working with me in the DHP.  As you can see, Asher did a great job keeping the twitterverse up to date with all the students were sharing.  We are disappointed that it won't be running next year (2018-2019) due to low enrolment, but we are hopeful that it will be back the following year!