It's been quite a while since our last post so we thought we'd get you up to date and tell you all what we've been up to since we finished the videos. This is also our last post as today is our last day of the module so try not to be too upset! We're feeling nostalgic already...
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| Showing our final videos to the Museum! |
So after our videos had been installed in the museum (go and have a look if you haven't already) and we'd printed off our lovely surveys we all traipsed round to the museum feeling enthusiastic and ready to talk to the museum-goers about that subject we all love... archaeology! Initially we were feeling rather sceptical about the amount of surveys which we could hope to get as last year they only managed to get around 25. Luckily for us however, the weather was on our side! The horrible rain seemed to be bringing a lot of people into the museum and so we managed to get 73 responses which we were very pleased with. This meant we had enough data to write up a meaningful report later on. In hindsight, we all had a lot of fun. There was a general preference amongst us all for the observational studies, except Kat who managed to run around and capture lots of people (with the help of a few sweeties!), but by the end of the day we all felt more confident approaching people and there were some really lovely folk who just wanted to chat for ages!
With our very numerous results in hand we came in today ready to write up our final report so it can be archived for the future. This seemed like a very daunting task when we first arrived but by splitting into groups and with a lot of teamwork we managed to write up our results in just over two hours. Go us! Astrid and Lexi concentrated on the observational results with Lizzie and Katrina writing up the survey results. This worked well and has resulted in a professional, well-written report with some pretty word clouds thrown in (!). We hope it will be useful to anyone who wants to use it in the future. Check it out here:
Evaluating Public Interest in Archaeology: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis at the Yorkshire Museum
As this is our final blog post, we thought we would share with you our experiences of blogging (and hopefully inspire some of you to give it a go). In the beginning the blogging took quite a lot of time, and some of us had a challenge in replacing the "essay language" we have been taught, with a more engaging way of writing. However, in time we've relaxed our style, and now we very much enjoy the blogging. This module has been a rollercoaster ride, and we have managed to do so much in so little time. The blogs have therefore been a nice way of summarizing what we have been doing, and explaining all the choices we have made in our work process. We hope you have enjoyed them as much as we have; we are really happy to see that so many, from so many different places, have followed our journey. Hello to all our readers from the US to Malaysia, and everyone in between! Our blogs have had 300-400 views, which is more than we ever expected, and it is nice to know that our work in heritage isn't going unnoticed. So thank you again to everyone!
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| Blog views for Head Over Heels into Heritage |
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| Blog views for Moving Forward into the Past |
Next up for us is the year-end exhibition, which is happening in only two weeks. Please come along to see our fellow student's fabulous work on the sites they have been working on...
So Thursday 19th of June at 4 pm, K/G60 in King's Manor is the place to be!
All that's left to say is thank you for following us these last few weeks. We've had so much fun, and we want to end by showing you the video Gavin Repton made for the Yorkshire Museum, of our journey through this module. So enjoy, and farewell!
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