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This presentation uses the Manufacturing Pasts project, funded by JISC, as an example of how research outputs can be shared with the world through a combination of institutionally-supplied web services, and social media.
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Manufacturing Pasts:Share your research digitally to the world
IT Focus Week, 21 November 2013Terese BirdLearning Technologist and SCORE Research FellowInstitute of Learning innovation
Wharf Street by Dennis Calow, MyLeicestershire.org
Duns Lane by Dennis Calow, Myleicestershire.org
What will we talk about?• What is Manufacturing
Pasts?
• How we shared out the direct outputs (ContentDM)
• How we provided context (Plone)
• How we got the word out (Social Media)
Photo by esrad on Flickr
Manufacturing Pasts: making the history accessible• No historiography of British industrial decline
• Dead zone: 70s – 90s
• Locked away
• Open materials (CC-BY-NC)
• Capture it now
• Not didactic but context
• Accessible
• Text, audio, video, interactivePhoto by Wesley Fryer on Flickr
Fires – the need to capture now
Mobile
Sharing the outputs: ContentDMhttp://myleicestershire.org.uk
Context (Plone website)http://www.le.ac.uk/manufacturingpasts
Key SkillsAnalyzing and drawing conclusions from primary sources, including image-based sources, is a key skill for historians and specialists in many fields, and utilising digitised primary sources has been effective in building such skills (Tally & Goldenberg, 2005)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03AO7HIMr5Y#t=90
Evolving Needs for the Digital Humanities Toolkit for researchers:
• Using visual sources in historical research
• Using oral testimony in historical research
• Provenance, judgement
Tools for students & teachers:
• Glossary, reference
• How to make your own
• How to reference
How we shared Manufacturing Pasts
Blog (Wordpress) – open research notebook, share findings, discuss
iTunes U – research-related welcome: video, audio, and text
iTunes U – worldwide
iTunes U – worldwide (numbers are for 8 months)
Collection Browse (hits)
Downloads
Subscribe
Stream
Conservation 695 104 65 94
De-Industrialisation 201 36 20 30
Factory & Community 408 185 45 68
Social Life of the Factory
315 255 26 100
Social Life of Factory Course
388 158 60 55
YouTube – You need to be on YouTube. Do narrated slideshows for easy quality (views 155 to 400 in year)
Scoop.it – find material by keyword, ‘scoop’ to your topic, automatically tweet (932 views –page)
Flickr – still the best for images
The storyso far…
Any questions?
www.le.ac.uk/manufacturingpastsThese slides on Slideshare tbirdcymru
Twitter: tbirdcymru
References
• Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicestere. (2010). OTTER: Open, Transferable and Technology-enabled Educational Resources — University of Leicester. University of Leicester website. Retrieved March 12, 2012, from http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance/projects/otter
• Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicester. (2011). OSTRICH: OER Sustainability through Teaching & Research Innovation: Cascading across HEIs — University of Leicester. University of Leicester website. Retrieved March 12, 2012, from http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance/projects/ostrich
• Tally, B., & Goldenberg, L. B. (2005). Fostering Historical Thinking With Digitized Primary Sources. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 5191, 1-21. Retrieved from http://students.stritch.edu/dlcaven/Article2/DigitizedPrimarySources.pdf
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