Project Name: (Subject to Change) Remembering Women: Women’s Experience at Gettysburg College
Project Owner: Keira Koch
Project Summary
My goal is to create an interactive narrative of women’s stories and experiences at Gettysburg College during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. I plan to use the digital tool Scalar to create an interactive storybook that highlights certain women from each time period. I hope to connect the individual stories of these women to the larger experience of women attending the college. Right now I am looking at the academic and social experiences of women. I am also looking at using a mapping tool of create a map of the college during these time periods to show where women were living and eating during their enrollment at Gettysburg.
Deliverables
- Questions and ideas
- Primary Source: Scrapbooks, Letters, Course Catalogues, Maps, Pictures, the Gettysburgian, and Oral Histories found in the Special Collections
- Secondary Sources: A Salutary Influence by Charles H Glatfelter, To Waken Fond Memory by Anna Jane Moyer
- Word Press
- Gettysburg College Maps (mostly done)
Timeline
- Week 3: Finish up mapping, complete Code academy, start researching the 1950s, and look into possible scan projects
- Week4: Finish up 1950s, start researching 1940s, and continue playing with digital tools
- Week 5: Finish 1940s, start researching 1930s, and continue exploring digital tools
- Week 6: Work with digital maps and start digitizing maps
- Week 7: Start digitizing the 1950s
- Week 8: Start digitizing the 1940s
- Week 9: Start digitizing the 1930s
- Week 10: Finish up loose ends and present project
End of Life/Future Plans
- If possible, I would like to expand on my project when the Fellowship is over. I would like to expand my time frame to encompass all of Women’s history throughout Gettysburg College. If I cannot expand, I hope that my project will be set up in a way that will allow future digital scholars to reference and expand upon.
I’ve been wading deeper into Scalar today. Scalar 2 has a Google Maps page layout that might be perfect for part of your project. Check out this blog post to learn more: http://scalar.usc.edu/page-layouts-in-scalar-2-google-maps/
Ambitious project ideas. Don’t be afraid to limit your scope to a certain era, or just telling the stories of a few women from each time. You will want to start focusing on deliverables and think about what specific digital assets and components you will want to include. You may also want to see how much a timeline or map would add to the experience; a map could be interesting if you are trying to do a virtual tour, for example, of a woman’s experience on campus in a certain era.