This year I’ve led a few different walking tours of Downtown Dayton, including for Preservation Dayton’s tour series and for the Downtown Dayton Art in the City event in August. But last week I put together a very different type of downtown tour: a photo tour from around 1900 that I created as a video […]
Local History Talks at Trolley Stop in the Oregon District!
I’ve been giving local history talks since my Lost Dayton book came out in 2018, but this year I’ve started trying something new. Up to this point I’d always just relied on other organizations to find me and request a talk. Over the past few years I’d be asked to speak from time to time […]
YouTube Channel Growth and Future Plans
Over about the past year and a half I’ve been slowly but surely recording videos about local history, preservation, and redevelopment for my Dayton history YouTube channel. A couple weeks ago I was excited to see that my latest video, about what happened to a street where a surprising number of prominent early Dayton business […]
Helping Connect My College to the Downtown Community
Lately I haven’t been as active on my blog here as I used to be, and looking back on my most recent posts I was a bit surprised to see how they make it seem like all I care about these days is AI! There was definitely a reason for my AI focus: for a […]
How ChatGPT is Affecting My Information Literacy Instruction
I’ve written about AI’s effects on libraries and librarians more broadly, and today I’ll share some thoughts about how AI is affecting library instruction and approaches to information literacy. There there are a lot of credible fears about AI’s propensity to mislead, but I think there are also opportunities to refresh conversations about authority, search […]
Why OER Textbooks Are Important (and How AI Can Help Create Them)
Open Educational Resources (OER) are educational materials that are free for anyone to use. We most often are referring to textbooks, but they can also be videos, tests, software, or even full courses. Crucially, they are not copyrighted like most publications but instead are released under a license (most often Creative Commons) that allows others […]