How to: showcase community interviews with digital tools

Meet the digital anthropologists of Cabot, Vermont

In fulfillment of their project-based learning research this past spring, this pair of middle school students decided to learn more about different regions of the U.S. by interviewing members of their small, rural Vermont town who had lived in those communities. They took the resulting interviews and embedded them in this Thinglink:

We recently had a chance to sit down with these students and get them to share how they pulled this amazing project together.

App-Smash!

tldr; They went about this by recording the interviews on their iPhones, edited that audio in GarageBand, and embedded the results in Thinglink.

A fantastic example of technology so well integrated that it blends seamlessly into the larger framework of this community-based project.

See also: the digital historians and digital cartographers of Cabot.

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