Message-ID: <c04e621d-a5d5-a1f2-fd86-a6f015d64691@mhtc.net> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 09:00:18 -0600 Subject: Re: Using Facebook to do a local history project From: Brian Bigler <usemeum@mhtc.net>
Hey David
Thanks for sharing your You Tube videos they are a great teaching tool
and are much appreciated by us historians who still live in the
twentieth century and are not on Facebook. We want to always remember
that a portion of the membership of our organizations are not on social
media and still look forward to staying in touch by that "old fashioned"
hard-copy newsletter. Just a different generation - I suppose.
Brian J. Bigler
Mount Horeb
On 1/29/2022 11:21 AM, David Drake wrote:
> I've been using multimedia (slides, now PowerPoint) on both Facebook
> live streaming and on YouTube as a teaching asset for schools.
> It's very easy once you get the hang of it and I find it a very
> effective way to "illustrate" history ( kind of like if Ken Burns was
> a folksinger).
>
> My "Wiscon-Sing" show, divided into chapters for school use, can be
> accessed on YouTube anytime at :
> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-6wirnRn7gWbiDFOQdQysZs-laWdQWeN
>
> DHBD
> *David HB Drake*
> Creative Director, Organic Arts Ltd.
>
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>
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>
> "One can be both entertained and educated and not know the difference"
> -Mark Twain-
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 11:04 AM sara m steele <smsteele@wisc.edu> wrote:
>
> Oh, I like the involvement! Good thinking Russ, and thanks for
> sharing
>
>
> Is there a list somewhere of the Historical Societies that have a
> Facebook Page or regularly use Instagram or YouU Tube?
>
>
> I've been posting some Power Point *picture stories* exported as
> video clips on our CGAHS Facebook page, but hadn't.thought of it
> as a tool of involvement, other than asking for help in
> identifying some of the people in the pictures which come from our
> image collection. I started doing them because I like to connect
> photos together and think they look much better on a monitor than
> in print.
>
>
> I'm beginning to explore building some electronic scrapbooks made
> up of newspaper clippings, photos and scans of maps, deeds, and
> other papers that fit together in a history of some local event,
> place, or person over time. However, I will probably export those
> as PDF's rather than video clips.
>
>
> Power Point is very easy to use. One can add a little text to
> bridge from one item to another.
>
>
> Social media reaches folks who won't take time to come to a
> museum or special exhibit as well as those keenly interested in
> history. It also can reach former residents and others all over
> the country (and world).
>
>
>
> Sara from CGAHS
>
>
>
> On 1/26/2022 3:39 PM, JANET IRENE SEYMOUR wrote:
>>
>> *Sent:*Tuesday, January 25, 2022 8:59 AM
>> SEYMOUR <janet.seymour@wisconsinhistory.org>
>> <mailto:janet.seymour@wisconsinhistory.org>
>> *Subject:* Using Facebook to do a local history project
>> The Sterling Laketown and Eureka Historical Society, located in NW
>> Wisconsin, NW Polk County along the scenic and wild St Croix River,
>> kicked off a project to do a history of a small local town that has
>> mostly disappeared.
>> It begins with a Facebook page
>> https://www.facebook.com/History-of-Atlas-Wisconsin-111739398049434/
>> We have many clippings and other information and photos from
>> the area,
>> but want to involve the local folks with an Atlas background and
>> possibly recruit them as members and volunteers in our local history
>> society.
>> What we did is on January,3, 2022, is create a Facebook page,
>> send
>> invites to the folks already on our history society Facebook
>> pages and
>> then start putting the photos and stories on the page.
>> In 20 days we have done about 3 posts per day, now gotten 200
>> page
>> followers, average 700 views per day and have gotten the names of
>> nearly
>> 100 folks with ties and information about Atlas, with offers to help.
>> With Covid still serious here, we are waiting until March (or
>> Covid
>> waning) to kick of a series of informal Atlas programs at the museum
>> where we gather the folks to tell us more (resulting in videos). We
>> also plan to do a few Atlas walks (1/4 mile) with folks
>> explaining what
>> is there.
>> If all goes as planned, we will get a new part of our
>> membership from
>> the Atlas area, some volunteers and a theme for the spring and
>> summer as
>> we explore what is left of the tiny town. We even may sponsor a kids
>> fishing contest of the dam millpond!
>> The key is providing an intense saturation of the Facebook
>> page with
>> posts, photos, and then get folks commenting on them sharing and
>> giving
>> us new information. So far we have had about 10 stories come in
>> and 30
>> new photos.
>> And of course all of this will go into a book to sell for the
>> local
>> historical society, as one can download the posts and photos that
>> are on
>> the Facebook page and turn them into a document, then edit them.
>>
>> Russ Hanson
>> Sterling Eureka and Laketown Historical Society
>> Museum in uptown Cushing, WI Polk County on top of the hill where
>> the
>> settler's gathered to defend themselves from the 1870s Indian
>> uprising
>> (a false alarm!).
>>