CONF: NEHTA Conference on Digital History - Brown University - 2 October

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Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 2, 2015
Location: 
Rhode Island, United States
Subject Fields: 
Ethnic History / Studies, History Education, Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, Race Studies, World History / Studies

As Vice President of the New England History Teachers Association I am excited to share some details about our Fall conference:

“Digital History: 
The Future of Exploring the Past” 
Friday October 2, 2015, 8:15am to 5:00pm 
Rhode Island Historical Society, Aldrich House, 110 Benevolent Street, Providence, RI
Dig into innovative methods, tools, and sources:
How are Big Data, the Cloud, and Google Earth changing the way we interpret the past? Is the “digital turn” producing a more vibrant, more accessible form of history?  Does it allow us – and our students – to ask new questions? To work in new ways? What does it take to integrate digital methods and tools into the history classroom?
Examine the possibilities with experts in the field
including keynote speaker Kathryn Tomasek (Wheaton College) and other pioneers in the scholarly and pedagogical aspects of data visualization, GIS, web mapping, cloud-based collaboration, social media, and digitization from schools and universities across New England.
Find out more at: http://nehta2015.omeka.net/
REGISTRATION:
For ONLINE registration, follow the steps on this link:  http://nehta.org/conferences-events/fall/
 
 
Some confirmed speakers and presenters: 
 
Kathryn Tomasek (Wheaton College) http://kathryntomasek.org
Brian Croxall (Brown Center for Digital Scholarship)  http://library.brown.edu/cds/ 
Michelle LeBlanc (Leventhal Map Center at Boston Public Library) http://maps.bpl.org/teacher_resources
Joe Adelman of The Junto (Framingham State) http://earlyamericanists.com
Erik Loomis of Lawyers, Guns, & Money (University of Rhode Island) http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/author/erik-loomis
Kelly O'Neill (Harvard) http://worldmap.harvard.edu/maps/886
and more!  Hope to see you there!
Contact Info: 

Jeremy Greene 

VP, NEHTA
Webmaster, NEHTA FB and Linkedin
World History Teacher 
Chelmsford High School 
Chelmsford, MA 01863