Graduate students in the Department of History at the University of Central Florida have produced a local community based research podcast call A History of Central Florida. This video podcast is a 9,000 year chronological history of central Florida through the objects found in local area museums, historical societies and other public collections. The impetus for this project was to bring attention to the museums and their artifacts in the hope that people would view the podcast and take interest not only in the entire series but also the museums themselves.   The tag line of the project is “The Museum on the GO….GO to the Museum.” Ideally we want people to see the podcast and museum on their mobile devices and then that would inspire them to travel to the museum themselves to see the artifact in person.

This panel will discuss the process of going from the classroom to the greater public and creating a video podcast with a community outreach purpose. We will show samples from the series and students and professors engaged in the project will lead a discussion on this project.

People involved attending THATCamp:

Robert Cassanello, Associate Professor of History, UCF

Daniel Murphree, Associate Professor of History, UCF

Katie Kelley, Graduate Student, UCF

Bob Clarke, Former Graduate Student, now adjunct faculty UCF

A link to the series on iTunes is here.