"Teaching Collaborations: Public History with WordPress"
How do we teach collaboration, and what does collaboration teach us? These questions are core concerns of those engaged in the Digital Humanities, Public History, or at the intersections of both. Using the example of ConnecticutHistory.org, Ceglio will share how she and colleagues have utilized WordPress, a popular platform for web publishing, as a space for inter-university teaching collaborations and for engaging students, at the undergraduate and high school levels, in collaborative writing projects for public audiences. Ceglio will also reflect on what community-based collaborations have taught her about web-based public history projects. ConnecticutHistory.org, a project of Connecticut Humanities, is an award-winning re-imagining of the traditional state encyclopedia co-developed with members of UConn’s Digital Media & Design Department’s Digital Media Center.
For additional information, visit: Conversations in Digital Scholarship.
For more information, contact: Anna Kijas at anna.kijas@uconn.edu