Upcoming RCET Presentations

2/15/12: eTech Ohio 2012, Columbus, OH.

McNeal, van 't Hooft, Cummings, Goff, & Mostov: Teach Your Students to Become Digital Local Historians: The GeoHistorian Project.

6/25/2012: ISTE 2012, San Diego, CA.

van 't Hooft & McNeal: Your Students Can Be Digital, Local Historians: The GeoHistorian Project.

Second Set of GeoHistorian QR Code Markers Are Being Installed

Six of the 18 new QR code markers have been installed. Sites include Ray’s Place, Sue Nelson Design (former Thompson Grocery), the Kent Stage, the Link Block, Standing Rock Cemetery, and Franklin Township Hall. See the GeoHistorian Project site for . . . → Read More: Second Set of GeoHistorian QR Code Markers Are Being Installed

Second Set of GeoHistorian Videos Finished

After lots of recording, editing, re-recording, and re-editing, the second set of 18 GeoHistorian videos is now available online at the GeoHistorian YouTube Channel. The videos cover a wide variety of existing sites like Beckwith Orchards, Ray’s Place, and Davey Elementary School, and sites that no longer exist such as the Kent Block and Opera House.

The . . . → Read More: Second Set of GeoHistorian Videos Finished

GeoHistorian Project in the News

Kent State’s e-inside just published a brief article about the GeoHistorian Project. The project itself is in great shape, as the last of the first set of markers are being installed, while gearing up to work with three teachers and approximately 60 students from Davey Elementary School in the fall.

For more information and updates, please visit . . . → Read More: GeoHistorian Project in the News

First of the GeoHistorian QR Code Markers Have Been Installed

On June 18, the Kent Historical Society reopened its doors in a new location, the Clapp-Woodward House on East Main Street in Kent. As part of the reopening, and with the help of our teachers and a couple of students, the first QR code marker was installed at the house. Go here for the . . . → Read More: First of the GeoHistorian QR Code Markers Have Been Installed

GeoHistorian Project Updates

A couple of updates on the GeoHistorian Project:

An article about the project was just published in the Kent Historian, issued by the Kent Historical Society. See pages 4-5.

The first set of QR code markers will be installed on Saturday, June . . . → Read More: GeoHistorian Project Updates

GeoHistorian Project in the News

The GeoHistorian Project has been moving right along as participating teachers and students just finished their digital stories (see also here). To make them accessible to the public, the first set of QR codes will be installed at their respective historical sites in Kent in the next couple of weeks, in collaboration with the Kent Historical . . . → Read More: GeoHistorian Project in the News

GeoHistorian Website Online

As part of our NEH-funded GeoHistorian Project we’ve created a website that will serve as a repository for teacher lesson plans, materials, and project-related odds and ends. The site can be accessed . . . → Read More: GeoHistorian Website Online

RCET Receives NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant

The National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced 28 new awards for the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program to support innovative projects in the digital humanities. RCET received one of these grants for its Geo-Historian project. The Geo-Historian project is aimed at educating K-12 students to become local historians who create digital content for an audience . . . → Read More: RCET Receives NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant