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TwHistory: Historical Reenactments with Twitter
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What is
?
The Big Idea
TwHistory
- Began in Spring 2009 while watching a conference broadcast
- Hundreds of people in the Twitter channel, organized with a common tag
- Twitter gives you the chance to "be there" virtually
- Idea: Real-time, virtual, historical reenactments using Twitter
- Free status update service
- "What's happening?" in140 characters
- Almost 20 million visitors per month
- 19% of American Internet users use Twitter
- Messages called "tweets"
Historical Reenactments
with Twitter
Photo credit: jf1234
Twitter + History
Tom Caswell
Marion Jensen
Utah State University
Historical Learning Perspectives
Photo credit: msun523
Followers/Spectators:
- Experience history in bite-sized, micro-updates
- Spread out authentically to match the time-line
Participants/Content Creators:
- Create content to represent a historical persona
- Learn from analyzing original sources
- Participaticipatory and colloborative in nature
Cold War History course implementation: Cuban Missile Crisis
Recent Projects
- Battle of Gettysburg
- Cuban Missile Crisis
Future Plans
Upcoming events:
- Pioneer trek
- Lewis and Clark
expedition
Future development of TwHistory.org:
- Seeking funding for sustainability
- A web-based repository for historical simulations
- Anyone can create, post, and share their own
- Allow replay of simulations with varied timelines & start times.
Questions?
caswell.tom@gmail.com
@tom4cam
marionjensen@gmail.com
@marionjensen
http://TwHistory.org
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