Journal History 101, the story about the Ventura County Museum of History's colloboration with Moorpark College recently aired on CNN Headline News.
You can view the segment at this url:
http://www.twcsocalnews.com/index.php?option=com_seyret&task=videodirectlink&Itemid=26&id=131
A story about the Moorpark College History department’s partnership with the Museum of Ventura County recently aired locally on CNN Headline News. The partnership began in 2008 when Museum officials asked History Professor Patty Colman to edit The Journal, after it had been done “in-house “ for 53 years. Colman is a Ventura County native who has two master’s degrees degrees in history, has worked as a historian for the National Park Service and has been a fulltime faculty member at Moorpark since 2005.
The premier issue of The Journal, published in May 2008, focused on the growth of the city of Ventura in the 19th century made visible through a series of birds-eye-view
lithographs.
The CNN video segment was shot on campus in November by the Time Warner Cable affiliate that carries the CNN Headline News show. Featured in the segment were professor Patty Colman, graphic designer Janeene Nagaoka and students Andy Richards and Dylan Belton. Students in Colman’s History M80 class research the articles as part of their coursework.
The second issue of The Journal features many historic photographs of Simi Valley taken by orchardist John Appleton about 1890. Bill Appleton, John’s great grandson, found hundreds of glass plate negatives dumped in a ditch on the family property.
They were developed and painstakingly digitally restored for use in The Journal.
According to Colman, the experiences the students are getting in her history class translate to real world job skills. “In any business or organization, an
employee can be tasked with gathering data, synthesizing information, and
writing a report. This is essentially what a student of history must do when given
a topic to research,” Colman says. “One of the most important lessons a college
graduate must learn is that they don’t have to know the answer to everything
as long as they know HOW to find the answer.”
To view the video, visit www.twcsocal.com. More information about the journal is online at www.venturamuseum.org
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