When they visit the digital public history exhibit that I created, for starters, I hope that people actually take the time to learn about the fire. Before this project, I was not even aware that this fire had happened. I hope that people actually look into the fire, and all of the details of it because I found it to be very interesting. It’s also nice to learn something about the history of Cortland, which now a lot of us consider to be like our second home. Lastly, I hope people learn that it is not hard to do something like this themselves. Without this course, I would have thought that creating my own digital public history exhibit was something that I was not qualified to do by any means, but I did- and now thats a skill that I have acquired that could possibly help me in the future. Overall, I though that the last three weeks of the course and the project were very interesting and I’m glad that I had the opportunity to complete it. Now not only did I learn about the fire and how to create the exhibit, someone else will be able to learn about these things too if they take the time, and that’s pretty cool.
-Megan Bender