Lunch & Learn: Real Learning, Real Impact: The Digital Scholarship in Museum Partnerships Project

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The Digital Scholarship in Museum Partnerships (DSMP) project seeks to engage Washington College students in authentic learning experiences by embedding technology-enhanced museum partnership projects into learning sequences across the curriculum. 

Through this project, students work with local museums to develop technology-rich outreach resources including virtual tours and augmented-reality enhanced interpretive panels which help convey the message of the museum within and beyond the community. Working with the museum affords students the opportunity to apply concepts and best practices learned in the classroom to a project that makes a real impact for the local community.

In this session Washington College professors and staff will discuss the DSMP model and the ways in which they are leveraging emerging technologies in community-engaged digital scholarship work on the Eastern Shore. 
Bios:

Raven Bishop is the Assistant Director of Educational Technology at Washington College. As part of the Educational Technology team, she works to research, promote and support best-practices where technology and pedagogy come together to promote a student-centered learning experience.  Bishop explores AR & VR in instruction and leads the Virtual/Augmented Reality Digital Imaging Studio (VARDIS) in Washington College’s Miller Library. 

Sara Clarke-De Reza, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Education and Director of the Museum, Field, and Community Education program at Washington College in Chestertown, MD. She teaches courses in the historical and cultural foundations of American education, as well as in educational research and design. Her scholarship explores collaborative design for learning at the intersections of formal and informal learning environments, like schools and museums.  

Julie Markin, Ph. D., is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Washington College Archaeology. Her work examines political and economic inequality in the Pre-Columbian United States with a focus on how environmental abundance, settlement location and subsistence production intersect to fuel [or preclude] the rise of socially and politically complex societies. Markin has also worked with several archaeological and historical museums, which instilled a desire to partner with communities in developing exhibit stories and curation strategies.

ASL interpretation will be available for attendees.

Presented in partnership with The Maryland State Archives and The Maryland Four Centuries Project.