New Media Tools For Information Collection and Dissemination
Posted by Devon Akmon | Filed under Technology, Work
It’s official, our iTunes U site is now live! Be sure to visit often for new educational and public programming materials from the Arab American National Museum. This is just one of many tools we are utilizing, or planning to implement, to help better inform the public on the history and contributions of Arab Americans.
In other news, we are in the process of exploring additional ways to build community history and collective memory through electronic means. This includes collaborative digital tools such as wikis. Additionally, one particular tool that has caught our attention is the MemoryMiner software developed by GroupSmarts, LLC. According to its website:
MemoryMiner is the award-winning Digital Storytelling application for Mac and Windows used to discover the threads connecting peoples’ lives across time and place. It lets you zero in on the stories depicted in your photos by linking them to each other based on people, places and time. Using simple drag and drop actions, you specify who is in the picture, where the picture was taken and when… A variety of other digital media, including sound, video, documents and URLs, can be added to each frame. The story elements are linked to each other by way of annotation layers identifying the people, places, dates and events captured in each frame, and can be exported for automatic publishing online.
The Magnes Museum has a nice project, called Memory Lab, that utilizes this software to “focus on narrating the history of the networks of Jewish life in California and beyond.” From what I’ve seen, this software looks promising. However, I plan to take a more in depth look at the software later, and I hope to place a call to the Magnes to hear about their experiences with the application.
Our institution seeks to become the premier destination for information on Arab Americans. To meet this goal, we plan to utilize collaborative, new media tools that permit our audience and diverse communities the opportunity to document its history collectively. This is particularly important given that we are a community-based institution. Additionally, these resources extend beyond the physical boundaries of the museum and provide important, timely information to a national and global audience.
If you have recommendations on other software or tools that you think would be useful, please shoot me an email or drop a line in the message section below.
- Devon Akmon
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December 9th, 2009 at 3:36 PM[...] we are tossing around ideas for GPS and location-aware applications for the phone. Most recently we launched a museum site on Apple’s iTunes U, which has gotten off to a great start. In addition to [...]
