Comments on: about this blog http://electronicmuseum.org.uk musings about electronic culture Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:02:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: acwarproject http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/about/#comment-8976 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:13:35 +0000 #comment-8976 Hello Mike,
Sorry to post in a comment, but I couldn’t find an email address..
This message is from a group of history educators in Pennsylvania who have developed a Civil War project that is in the process of raising a modest amount of money to build prototypes for gathering additional partners.
Our project, the Civil War Augmented Reality Project, is intended to enhance the experiences of visitors to Civil War sites. It is also intended to increase attendance and revenue for historic sites by offering both “high” and “low” tech experiences to best reach the majority of the population.
We feel that our project is fulfilling a need that educators, park workers, technology enthusiasts, and Civil War enthusiasts have discussed in the past: How can historic sites both raise public interest in their institutions though technology, and not alienate the non-technical history fans?
We have worked hard on the answer, and are interested in promoting our creative solutions.
We would like to make clear that the project is not intended solely for Pennsylvania. It is our hope that the project will expand to other venues, as we feel that we have the ability to use our ideas to enhance the experiences of all Americans at historic sites.

If you have a chance, please check out our blog:
http://acwarproject.wordpress.com/

And our fun, Civil-War flavored funding campaign on Kickstarter:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jmummert/the-civil-war-augmented-reality-project

If you think that our project has merit, we would be delighted if you could mention it in your blog.

Here are a few other links of interest regarding our project:

A recent newspaper article:
http://www.ydr.com/ci_15435690

Other recent blog posts:
http://electricarchaeologist.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/civil-war-augmented-reality-project/
http://www.yorkblog.com/yorktownsquare/2010/07/linked-in-with-neat-york-count-48.html

Our Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Civil-War-Augmented-Reality-Project/126003620773256

Our Twitter account page:
http://twitter.com/ACWAR_Project

Thanks very much for considering us!

The Civil War Augmented Reality Project
Jeff Mummert- Hershey High School and York College of Pennsylvania
Art Titzel- Hershey Middle School
Jay Vasellas- Red Lion Area High School and York College of Pennsylvania

]]> By: Paul Swift http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/about/#comment-6975 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:36:41 +0000 #comment-6975 Hi Frankie – thanks for this. It’s very interesting – I like the quite like the sound of
‘ The Blog of Samuel Pepys’!
Paul

]]> By: Frankie Roberto http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/about/#comment-6970 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:20:44 +0000 #comment-6970 See http://www.pepysdiary.com/ for an interesting approach to this.

Of course, it works well because Pepys wrote as a diary, which fits the blog format well, but it could be applied to other original historical texts.

]]> By: Mike http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/about/#comment-6963 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:17:56 +0000 #comment-6963 Hey Paul

Interesting idea – have just responded to you via email

Cheers

Mike

]]> By: Paul Swift http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/about/#comment-6961 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:51:33 +0000 #comment-6961 Hi Mike,
I don’t think we ever met but I have been working at the NRM (York) since 2005 and before that I was a Software Producer for Granada Learning managing the development of a VLE (LearnWise) and an online testing engine called (TestWise). Anyway I just wanted to ask you if you have ever come across any blogs being used with the museum sector as a means for delivering primary source historical data – I have always thought that it would be possible to run a ‘retro-blog’ in which an existng diary or journal (in the case of the NRM perhaps a Station Masters diary) could be turned into a blog in the sense that each day/week/entry records word for word what had been written in the original source but is delivered through a blog package and allows online visitors to contribute as per traditional blog. I would be interested to know if you have heard of anything of this type before?
Thanks
Paul (Lifelong Learning Officer, NRM)

]]> By: Mike http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/about/#comment-13 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:48:05 +0000 #comment-13 Thanks Pilar!

Mike

]]> By: Pilar Gonzalo http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/about/#comment-7 Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:21:30 +0000 #comment-7 Hello Mike,

This seems the birth of a wonderful blog :)
Your lecture at mw2007 was fantastic!!! and also the previous paper. Thanks for your insights. I will keep hooked on “electronic museum”

Take care,
Pilar Gonzalo

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