Developing an online course for local historians in Baltimore
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Eli Pousson
Nov 2, 2015, 1:52:06 PM11/2/15
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Hello all,
We're developing an online course to teach local historians (or anyone who is interested) how to contribute stories to our Curatescape-based Explore Baltimore Heritage website and app. We started outlining the topics for the course in a public Trello board a couple weeks back and I've put together an early prototype based on existing training materials.
Over the past few years, we have worked with a variety of contributors - local university students writing as part of a course, student interns, and interested volunteers. A couple years ago, we developed a set of contributor guidelines that have helped some but, unfortunately, I think they often go unread by the people who might benefit the most!
In an effort to make it easier for those groups to learn how to contribute stories to Explore Baltimore Heritage, we're exploring the idea of teaching a course this winter that would guide people through the process of researching and writing a story. We're thinking this would take the form of weekly sessions for 5 weeks with a significant online component for anyone who can't attend one or all of the in-person meetings.
I'd love to hear from others about what kind of training you are doing for volunteer or student contributing and to see any instructional or teaching materials you have put together to help guide the research and writing process.
Our course is published through GitHub pages so you can also check out the repo here. This course is supported as part of a larger project (the Local Preservation School) that might interest any of you who work or teach historic preservation.
Thanks for any feedback you can provide!
Eli
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