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Project Ideas

For a digital project idea, I am interested in creating a blog or website centered around a Unit of study for a secondary level class. For example, in teaching a unit on U.S. History from covering...

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Print Project Proposal

With the proliferation of digital media, more resources than ever imagined are available for educators. Despite education not being their primary mission, archives, museums and cultural institutions...

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NEH & The NYPL – Creating “What’s on the Menu?”

The financial assistance to support the proliferation of digital media has been aided through grants from agencies like the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). In its Digital Humanities...

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Digital Project Proposal

I live in the community of Silver Spring, Maryland. It is a community that has a unique history, from its founding as an estate of the Blair family in the 1820s, growing as part of the explosion of...

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Google Ngram

Google Books has currently digitized 15 million books (and counting), or 12 percent of all books that have been published in history. While impossible to read this vast amount of literature, the tool...

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Show and Tell: Citizen Archivist Dashboard

The National Archives has just launched an exciting new initiative, the Citizen Archivist Dashboard. The Dashboard is a crowdsourcing tool similar to the NYPL’s What’s on the Menu. The Dashboard...

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Final Digital Project – Historypin & the Silver Spring Historical Society

For my digital project, I worked with the Silver Spring Historical Society to upload content to the website Historypin. The SSHS is dedicated to preserving the history of Silver Spring, Maryland. I was...

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