Today we kick off THATCamp 2011 at CHNM. The first post I wrote about THATCamp was way back in 2008 (a whole generation in Internet years). That first iteration brought 70 participants to the Center. This year we have 100…a limit imposed only by the fire department capacity of the large meeting room in our…
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Playing With History on Digital Campus
Following up on the most excellent conference–Playing With Technology in History–in Niagara-on-the-Lake two weeks ago, the Digital Campus crew (Dan|Tom) reviewed the conference and some of the most important issues it raised for the participants. Be sure and check out the podcast so you can hear more from the conveners–Kevin Kee and Bill Turkel. Among…
Playing With History – Day 2 (cont’d)
This is the third in a series of posts designed to capture and preserve the activity and conversation at the Playing With Technology in History conference. After the morning break we shifted from gaming to making. [11:00] How can making or remaking things from the past help us to understand the past? What do the…
THATCamp and All That (3)
The third session of THATCamp that I attended today was on museums in the digital world [scroll down for earlier posts from camp]. The first part of the discussion was about how museums might change their relationship with the objects in their collections via digital media. I threw out the example of what might happen…