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Georgia Tech history
Project 1: History Detective
Using Georgia Tech’s rich history, students use the archives’ documents, publications and photographs to answer targeted,
specific questions about student life, academics and campus development. This project exposes students to the types of
materials found in archives but also begins to prepare them for more difficult archival research.
Project 2: Peer to peer learning
Students work in pairs to analyze documents selected from the Archives’ historical collections of the campus. Designed to focus
on the strength of peer-to-peer learning and teaching, the project encourages students to describe their primary resources in
detail, and to come up with ideas on how these documents could be used in research.
Project 3: History Detective +Tumble through Tech History
Ideal for undergraduates from any major, this one-time class puts a digital spin on the traditional History Detective workshop.
Through hands-on exploration of physical and digital primary sources, students will learn about archival research methods,
explore the practice and purpose of creating metadata, and share their historical findings with the world via the Georgia Tech
Archives Tumblr. Students will work in small groups, and each group should come to the class with at least one laptop.
Project 4: Georgia Tech Time Traveler
In this project, the students will explore the ever-changing built environment that is the Georgia Tech campus. This challenge
requires them to use maps, research, and the powers of their observation and imagination to identify demolished buildings or
areas on campus that have been significantly altered.
Project 5: Industrial Education and Development of the Georgia Tech campus
This project will discuss the shop culture and industrial education in the South and why the development of the GT campus was
influenced by this movement. This project can be adapted into a one-time class project or into a research project.
Project 6: Make your mark on GT History
This quick project encourages students to consider their place in Georgia Tech history and to see their own records as worthy of
archiving. Students will be invited to make their mark on history by submitting a photo that documents something about their
lives at Georgia Tech to the Archives. This project introduces students to the concept of archives, increases their awareness
about the Georgia Tech Archives, teaches them about the importance of metadata, and invites them to consider history as an
active, participatory, modern phenomenon.
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