Teacher Resources | Heritage Organization Workshops | Heritage Industries
Heritage Organization WorkshopsWe offer technical assistance and workshops free of charge to heritage organizations in Utah. Contact the instructors to schedule your workshop.
We also work with heritage organizations to help organize regional meetings. These meetings can include several workshops and other activities for organizations throughout the state. Interested organizations should submit a request to Kent Powell at least ninety days before the date of the proposed meeting.
WORKSHOPS
Conservation
- Care and Preservation of Photographs
This presentation teaches you how to identify and care for photographic prints. Learn about photographic print processes; forms of deterioration; stability of specific print materials; collections management; and proper storage, handling, and display.
SPEAKER: Susan Whetstone 801-533-3543
Heritage Tourism
- Introduction to Heritage Tourism
See through slides and video how heritage tourism can be used to help develop the heritage within your community.
SPEAKER: Wilson Martin 801-533-3552
Local History
- Writing Local History
This workshops teaches about writing community, county, and regional histories. Learn different approaches
to writing of local history, and how to research, organize, write, and publish.
SPEAKER: Kent Powell 801-533-3520
- Personal and Family History
Following the dictum of Carl Becker that "Every man (and woman) is his/her own historian," this workshop will
present ways of organizing, researching, and writing, personal and family histories. This workshop will also cover such questions as what to include, what to leave out, and how to integrate local, state, and national events and
issues into these histories.
SPEAKER: Kent Powell 801-533-3520
Oral History
- Introduction to Oral History
This workshop discusses the nature and uses of oral history, then explores the process of doing oral history interviews: how to identify and contact potential interviewees, what kinds of equipment to use, how to set up and conduct the interview, what kinds of questions to ask, transcribing and editing interviews, preserving and storing tapes and transcripts, setting up oral history projects, and other aspects of oral history.
SPEAKER: Kent Powell 801-533-3520
- Oral History Issues and Techniques
This worshop examines issues and problems that oral history practitioners have encountered or are likely to encounter in their work. Participants will also discuss ways that oral histories can be used; they may also review and discuss oral history interviews that participants have conducted.
SPEAKER: Kent Powell 801-533-3520
- Writing News Articles and News Releases
Tips to help you get your information noticed, printed, and read. Choosing the right slant, writing a lead,
structuring your article, and writing in a style suitable for newspapers.
SPEAKER: Kristen Rogers 801-533-3542
- From Initial Idea to Print: The organically whole, indivisible process of thinking, researching, and writing
This interactive presentation will discuss how to research and write in a way that is meaningful, accurate, and
clear. Some of the topics include tips on efficient note-taking, organizing your research, taking off any blinders,
zeroing in on your subject, and identifying why anybody would want to read about whatever it is you're writing.
SPEAKER: Kristen Rogers 801-533-3542