Wednesday, March 29, 2017

E202: Getting Your Hands on History: How Teachers & Students Are Unlocking Records of the National Archives

11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Suzanne Isaacs, Community Manager, National Archives Catalog, National Archives and Records Adminstration

Meredith Doviak, Community Manager, National Archives and Records Adminstration

Get an overview and demonstrations of crowdsourcing projects that teachers and students can get involved with to increase online access to the National Archive’s historical records. The presenters cover the Innovation Hub citizen scanning efforts, along with online activities in tagging, transcription, and on Wikipedia projects. The session also highlights some of the student projects that have been accomplished as part of these efforts.