My name is Devin. I'm the only one interning this semester, so these will likely be my musings in solitude. It should be good practice for the creative writing process since I haven't blogged since what I refer to as the 'Xanga times'. When kids were teaching themselves basic html in order to decorate their blog pages like the inside of a locker, replete with music downloaded from Napster and MS Paint doodles.
This all ties together well for me as I'm simultaneously in Library school, struggling with learning the coding my middle school and high school teachers told us would secure us jobs for the future; and writing social media posts for Save Ancient Studies of America where I have been interning for the past month.
I am one of perhaps a dozen interns among a fairly international group. We're beaming in via Zoom from the U.S., Germany, Egypt, and the U.K to name the ones I'm certain of. Our organizers are affiliated with NYU and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but there are others as well working behind the scenes on various other projects. SASA consists of ancient studies and classics scholars, archaeologists, historians, and a few artists and art historians. I fall more into the last two categories.
We are working together on visual branding ideas, hunting for license-free images and writing fun and educational posts for a future social media campaign geared towards high school and college-aged students in the hopes of igniting interest in ancient studies and promoting their re-introduction into schools.
Mainly, I hope to gain useful skills and experience in educational programming using social media and the web in general. I'm excited to lend whatever skills I can to the project as it is actually something I can get behind, and may be where many cultural institutions are heading considering the current state of things. I hope to be able to lend some of my art making skills, my knowledge of art history, as well as any additional skills in education and information science as is seen to fit.
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I'm here, Devin! I see you! But, it may just be you and I on this blog. I am sorry for the lonely internship experience during this surreal summer. I really like for there to be a group of interns, going through this experience together even if they are all at different institutions. Not only is this the first summer where there is only 1 intern (you!), this is also the first internship that I have seen a student do that is fully online! What a world!
ReplyDeleteI am really excited to follow your experience with SAS, Devin. What a cool group of people to be working with from all over the world and with such diverse disciplinary backgrounds! I can't wait to see what you come up with for your project!