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Through Venetian Eyes 2.0 aims to promote primary-source scholarship by offering a diverse range of resources from various institutions. The focus is on sharing information with different perspectives and presentation styles while utilizing only free resources. The project has successfully produced videos, formed partnerships, and engaged young audiences. Lessons learned include the importance of creativity, translating academic content for students, and the role of artistry in creating engaging materials. Moving forward, the project plans to enhance its content, expand to reach a younger audience, and integrate into educational settings like the Yuri Kochiyama Leadership Program.
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The Original Goal of TVE • Create an online platform that promotes primary-source scholarship and makes it replicable • Combine resources from different institutions
Challenges to Our Original Idea • Who would we be competing against? • How can we differentiate our project from all of the others?
Through Venetian Eyes 2.0 • Shift the focus from the product to the process • Share the same information with different perspectives and different styles of presentation • Use only free and accessible resources
What We Accomplished • Created 5 lecture video presentations and 1 cooking guide • 5 fully animated white board videos and at least 3 how-to’s ranging from archival research to white-board animation • Formed relationships with our partner organizations • Found new ways of engaging young people with primary sources
What We Learned • Limits of various types of source material • The need to think creatively • Challenges of translating academic inquiry so that it will appeal to a student audience • The importance of artistry in producing engaging content
New Challenges • Finding unique ways of presenting unique sources • Finding more recipes • Adapting TVE for a younger audience
Next Steps • Finish TVE over the course of the month and continue to add polish • Yuri Kochiyama Leadership Program • Future application in the classrooms