Ways to Use this Site
On Tuesday, August 18th, 2018 we convened Alabama State University faculty, museum and library professionals, and community members to present this website and collectively brainstorm ways in which this website and oral histories can be utilized. Here were some of our findings, we hope that you can find creative ways to utilize this website. We would love to hear how you are using the site!
- Educational experience for historic sites and museum, through use of touch screens and audio/video stations
- K-12 Curriculum Development
- Classroom integration, offering more personal accounts of history with oral histories
- Connecting localized history to state education standards
- Engaging digital natives in Civil Rights History
- Utilizing “Themes” section to teach beyond what is textbooks
- In museums kiosk for listening to and watching oral histories
- Capture reactions and responses to Oral Histories
- Serves as a way to track audience engagement
- Connecting visitor emotions to that of oral history interviewee
- Developing cultural awareness and sensitivity
- Use a model to do oral histories of your family, community, classroom, or peers
Leave us feedback in the contact form of other ways you think these oral histories can be utilized.
Leave us feedback in the contact form of other ways you think these oral histories can be utilized.