SL/CE Panel: High Impact Practices of Service-Learning on Student and Community Partners via Digital History
Start Date
12-4-2024 3:30 PM
Location
CASB 102
Document Type
Presentation
Abstract
Service-Learning directly impacts student retention, develops student and community relationships, and allows students to develop career competencies. Digital Humanities projects expand the field of history by providing students the opportunity to present their research in a digital format, allowing access by a significantly broader audience than a physical exhibit. In digital exhibit “Women & WWII: the Letters of Margaret Payne,” students in Professor Tammy Pike’s HIST 391 course worked with the University Library using the library’s content management system, LibGuides, to present transcriptions of 67 letters of Margaret Payne. In the digital exhibit “The Letters of Blanche Peden Payne,” students in Professor Pike’s HIST 325 course presented over 40 letters from Margaret Payne’s mother, Blanche Peden Payne. The students partnered with the Piedmont Historical Preservation Society as part of the service-learning component of the course, and the additional background research each student completed enriched the digital exhibit, providing context and nuance to the letters. Through the partnership with the university archives, the project connects the students and the university to the broader upstate region community. Edwin Waters will be presenting his LibGuides. From both courses including a discussion of internship at the PHPS working directly with the Blanche Peden Payne letters under my supervision. The impact was a link to an online digital project that students can link on their resume and use as a work example in future job searches. Edwin’s direct involvement with the PHPS allowed him to develop an understanding of archival work and to directly impact a community partner.
SL/CE Panel: High Impact Practices of Service-Learning on Student and Community Partners via Digital History
CASB 102
Service-Learning directly impacts student retention, develops student and community relationships, and allows students to develop career competencies. Digital Humanities projects expand the field of history by providing students the opportunity to present their research in a digital format, allowing access by a significantly broader audience than a physical exhibit. In digital exhibit “Women & WWII: the Letters of Margaret Payne,” students in Professor Tammy Pike’s HIST 391 course worked with the University Library using the library’s content management system, LibGuides, to present transcriptions of 67 letters of Margaret Payne. In the digital exhibit “The Letters of Blanche Peden Payne,” students in Professor Pike’s HIST 325 course presented over 40 letters from Margaret Payne’s mother, Blanche Peden Payne. The students partnered with the Piedmont Historical Preservation Society as part of the service-learning component of the course, and the additional background research each student completed enriched the digital exhibit, providing context and nuance to the letters. Through the partnership with the university archives, the project connects the students and the university to the broader upstate region community. Edwin Waters will be presenting his LibGuides. From both courses including a discussion of internship at the PHPS working directly with the Blanche Peden Payne letters under my supervision. The impact was a link to an online digital project that students can link on their resume and use as a work example in future job searches. Edwin’s direct involvement with the PHPS allowed him to develop an understanding of archival work and to directly impact a community partner.