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Interning with the Smithsonian: Update 4

December 11, 2020
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Well, this post has taken a surprising turn of events compared to my last several posts. There are some highlights and some lowlights. Since the last update, I participated in a presentation with my fellow interns as part of the fall final intern presentations held by NMAI at the end of every...

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Interning with the Smithsonian: Update 3

November 25, 2020
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Unfortunately, this update is a bit overdue, but nevertheless, here is the latest report on my internship at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)! These last few weeks have seen my work transition from the planning stages to the execution stages. After...

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Interning with the Smithsonian: Update 2

October 30, 2020
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With several more weeks and several more trainings under my belt, things have started to ramp up for my internship work. Over the last couple weeks, I’ve been focusing on learning more about how to organize the aforementioned edit-a-thon. While it might seem straightforward, this isn’t...

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Interning with the Smithsonian: Update 1

October 8, 2020
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In the absence of recent posts to this blog/portfolio/record of work, I have been developing, organizing, and finalizing the last component of my graduate certificate program at George Mason University (GMU): a virtual internship opportunity at the Smithsonian Institute (SI)! It took some time to...

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Project Update: Challenges and Problem-Solving

July 8, 2020
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As I near the date for submitting my first draft of my final project, the challenges make their appearances in various ways (like they always do at this stage). As mentioned last time, my goal was to focus on the creation of my activities to best facilitate the teaching of the content I am...

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Meeting the Challenges of Teaching in the Digital World

July 8, 2020
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We know that our students are much closer to the cutting edges of the digital revolution than we are, but nothing I have seen in the past dozen years of close observation has altered my conviction that just because they are adept users of technology, that is not the same thing as being adept...

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Project Update: Summarizing the Draft

July 1, 2020
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As we near the end of the semester, the research engine is going into overdrive and things are starting to come together. I have settled on a platform to host my content, I have selected the main content, and I have begun mapping out the activities I plan to use. Overview of topic. My final project...

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Project Update: Researching and Constructing Indigenous Methodologies

June 24, 2020
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After having the past week set aside in my course for conducting research and putting my final project into full gear, I have made significant progress toward where I need to be. My previous blog posts have covered my topic area fairly well into terms of what I’m trying to accomplish, but to...

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Project Update: Depiction and Representation of Indigenous Beliefs

June 17, 2020
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One of the main goals of my project is to present seemingly conflicting worldviews and explore how to resolve their contradictions, particularly among sources of Indigenous origins or that relate to Indigenous perspectives of events. This can be demonstrated through comparing Indigenous oral...

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Creative Historical Thinking: Images and Films

June 16, 2020
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Images and films have a rather short history within the field of history due to their relative time of inception as technological advancements. Yet, these items are some of the things that we can safely say have revolutionized how historical work is done and presented. They have also provided...

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