Steem with Graduate Students
This month marks the beginning of History. History 5151 that is. @sndbox will be in Philadelphia for a Steemit workshop at Temple University later this month. Our incubator will be onboarding approximately 15 graduate students who plan to use Steemit as a empowering sounding board for their historical research throughout the Spring 2018 semester. The course is being led by @phillyhistory.
@sndbox will help generate new accounts for students (and any curious professors) using @jesta’s Vessel application. Vessel has become a fantastic resource for us during Steemit meetups and workshops. It allows us to quickly generate accounts for new users and illustrate the many benefits of Steem’s blockchain in the process.
Student Goals
Each student will use their blog as a resource to document, archive, research and ask for feedback. This community account - @phillyhistory - will be used to share course resources with the broader Steemit public while simultaneously curating student posts and evaluate them through upvotes and metrics of engagement. With the Steem earned, the class will collectively be able to fund educational programming for the Philadelphia History Museum and surrounding community. You can read the full mission here.
The class has until May 2018 to blog and earn, afterwards a portion of their earnings (+100% of @phillyhistory’s) will be withdrawn to support Philadelphia History Museum programming and serve as a powerful proof of concept for utilizing Steemit. The whole of the class will decide what exact Steem-powered programming will look like. This is all of course very dependent on market conditions, but luckily @phillyhistory has been busy accumulating Steem to give the class a healthy head start.
We are thrilled to have such a rare opportunity, connecting Steem to two prestigious international institutions. Our goal is to showcase Steemit as a powerful resource to empower education while simultaneously providing a mechanism to fund additional research.
The Philadelphia History Museum collection consists of more than 130,000 artifacts including furniture, paintings, prints, photographs, books, signage, tools, clothing, maps, architectural models, scrapbooks, clocks, carts, etc. In teaming up with Temple, the PHM is exploring new strategies to enliven and enrich its massive holdings, a collection that is largely curated behind closed doors and locked drawers. Source.
How You Can Get Involved!
Next week we’ll be launching a contest under the tag #explore1918. With this contest we’ll be asking the broader Steemit public to mine the history of their hometowns. Specifically, we’ll be exploring the year 1918. Why 1918? (Learn more here.) This year served as a special and important time for Philadelphia and the world as a whole. History is full of intertwined narratives and hidden stories. Our goal with this #explore1918 tag is to have students and Steemians alike dig into the past to perhaps discover some unique similarities.
Don’t blog about 1918 just yet! We’ll officially announce the challenge next week.
More to Explore
Professor @kenfinkel is wrapping up the course syllabus as we speak (a little peak below). So stay tuned for the challenge next week and the beginning of the course this month! We’re excited to introduce a bunch of new academics and experiment with the potential of Steem + Education! Share your ideas below, we want your opinions, ideas, critiques, and suggestions of how to make this the most unique semester, the first to be fundamentally motivated by decentralized technologies.
Here's a sneak peak of a Steem-powered Syllabus. @phillyhistory's draft below:
@phillyhistory will be a platform for a graduate level course at Temple University: “Nonprofit Management for Historians” (History 5151) with Professor Kenneth Finkel, @kenfinkel in the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University (Philadelphia, US). Show your support by following the account and taking part beginning January 2018!
Thanks for all of your guidance and support @sndbox. I feel like we're taking higher ed beyond the cutting edge, here.
Absolutely! Taking higher ed to a new plateau, very excited to see what this semester brings with it!
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This is a great idea! I am a masters in accounting student at UCF and would love to be a part of a project like this at my school. If you check out my post from yesterday, I actually explained how I just recruited over 10 of my peers from UCF onto the Steemit platform. I think Steemit is a great community for everybody, especially college students. If you have any connections or ideas for a similar project to conduct at UCF, let me know. I plan on reaching out to some professors this semester to explain Steemit and see how it could possibly be used in the classroom. Thanks for sharing and best of luck with the project!
Fantastic! Steem can become such an incredible resource for students and education as a whole.
We'll be sharing takeaways and lessons throughout the semester, so stay tuned! We'll be showcasing the students as well so that you can follow along. Many thanks for reaching out @dylanjacobson
great very informative post, many greetings.
C'mon, you aren't supposed to be teaching them anything useful.
Wow. Nice one. Steemit is growing stronger and impacting everyone leaving no stone unturned. Keep promoting Steemit cos that was how I heard about Steemit and since then, my life has changed
i love the idea... this is very important for education
I have been personally influenced and helped by steemit
Its a very great platform
Thanks for the great work you have been doing sndbox in propagating the work here
Awesome for the students! Temple might lose some students next year though. lol
Thanks for your guidance
Nice project you guys got going on; meanwhile I can't wait for the #explore1918 contest to start.
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the extraordinary plan, when the steemit platform becomes a student information media is a new breakthrough in education. hence the presence of a real steemit to lead us to a new modern civilization.
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Its a big project you have at hand. Talking for experience, i recently handle something not so big using the steemit platform and i know what went into it. Financial stress, emotional stress, thinking and mapping out plans, a whole lot. I'm sure this is gonna go down well and it gonna be a lot beneficial to the students. Congrats in advance! You are obviously doing a great job @sndbox, taking steemit to the next level. Thumbs up!
Quite innovative I must say; incorporating the steem blockchain with education. I would love to participate in this contest.
However, I do have some questions.
this is great, got to resteem it!
NICE
This sounds like all kinds of fun and we'll learn something too! This is really going to be a fun way to participate in learning history and funding university programs as the same time! Good job.
Honestly, the steemit workshop would go a long way in helping them, especially with an economy like this
Nice post :)
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I can already see the future of social media and education in steemit. I think steemit is more revolutionary than facebook and I am glad to be in here.
I would like to support your work in spreading steemit to different universities. I want to spread the news to organizations who will prove to have a valuable contribution in the community in terms of art. Any ideas how I can do that?
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@sndbox, this is an awesome concept. I am curious as to whether non-Temple history enthusiasts would be able to get in on the action? There's a lot of potential in curating history posts on a larger scale. Eagerly looking forward to the challenge.
Wow sounds good. Thanks for the informative post. Cheers