{"id":21980,"date":"2025-07-14T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=21980"},"modified":"2025-08-20T15:32:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T19:32:53","slug":"engaging-local-history-through-data-literacy-storytelling-and-digital-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/event\/engaging-local-history-through-data-literacy-storytelling-and-digital-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Engaging local history through data literacy, storytelling, and digital  scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Summary<\/h4>\n<p>Building on Ed Ayers\u2019 2021 essay, \u201cAll History is Local,\u201d freely accessible digital scholarship tools and resources will be explored, allowing participants to drill down to local historical data, and then widen the lens to see how their community is part of the story of our shared American past. Data visualizations and interactive mapping projects enhance student engagement by connecting local history classrooms, museums, and historical sites. Innovative open educational resources (OER) and digital scholarship embed data literacy and historical thinking skills. Join this BYOD interactive launchpad for local explorations of our collective stories from America\u2019s past.<\/p>\n<h4>Session Focus<\/h4>\n<p>All Grade Levels | U.S. History \u00a0| Digital Storytelling, Geoliteracy<\/p>\n<h4>Conference Room<\/h4>\n<p>Clark<\/p>\n<h4>Meet the Presenter<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21981 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/evans-annie-BW-229x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/evans-annie-BW-229x300.jpeg 229w, https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/evans-annie-BW.jpeg 384w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 124px) 100vw, 124px\" \/>Annie Evans<\/strong> has spent over half her life teaching history, civics, and geography in Virginia\u2019s K12 public schools. With New American History, she collaborates with a network of educators across the country to create learning resources to inspire the next generation of educators, public historians, and community leaders. Embracing inquiry and place-based learning, she serves as co-coordinator of the Virginia Geographic Alliance and is a National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellow and Certified Educator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Explore New American History\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.newamericanhistory.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learning Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and share your feedback with Annie on Bluesky: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/mapm8ker.bsky.social\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@mapm8ker.bksy.social<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Building on Ed Ayers\u2019 2021 essay, \u201cAll History is Local,\u201d freely accessible digital scholarship tools and resources will be explored, allowing participants to drill down to local historical data, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":21759,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[89,116],"tribe_events_cat":[107],"class_list":["post-21980","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-annual-conference","tag-saturday-afternoon-session","tribe_events_cat-conference-sessions","cat_conference-sessions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/21980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/21980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22188,"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/21980\/revisions\/22188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21980"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=21980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}