So, we're winding down to the last 11 days of our Kickstarter campaign. We'd like everyone to know that we haven't been spending all of our time staring at the computer screen waiting for pledges to come in.. in fact we've been very busy garn...ering the support of organizations across Central PA. So, the present list of supporters/partners/friends of the Civil War Augmented Reality Project now include:

The National Civil War Museum
Winvolve, Inc.
The Cumberland County Visitor's Bureau
York County Heritage Trust
Harrisburg University
Main Street Gettysburg
The David Wills House
The Army Heritage and Education Center

All of these organizations are waiting on our production of a few prototypes using our Kickstarter campaign funding- if we win it. Please consider pledging!

Our newest Order of Battle- thanks everyone!

I've been trying to keep an organized list of the reviews and critiques of our Project. I think I've finally got one together. Here is a record of our fame, organized by blog/media type:
Newspapers

Carlisle Sentinel

York Daily Record

Civil War Blogs

Wig-Wags

Past in the Present

Old Virginia Blog

Cannonball

US History Files

Education Technology Blogs

Librarian by Design

Teaching the Civil War with Technology

Classroom 2.0

Electric Archaeologist

Cool Cat Teacher

Museum Blogs

ExhibiTricks

Museum Media

Augmented Reality Blogs

Games Alfresco

Augmented Planet

Augmentology

Our Kickstarter Campaign is in it's final weeks, please consider pledging!

How can the Civil War Augmented Reality Project positively affect the protection and maintenance of historic locales?
We believe that public participation in projects that geographically locate sites, people, and events in real space will lead to a greater public appreciation of the value of public land and building ownership.
We feel that knowledge of the past is inherently linked to real, outdoor places. Augmented reality applications like ours will reinforce this connection. The public, we feel, will in turn be more proactive in the protection of historic places.

In the realm of historic tourism and public history, not all sites are equal. Due to varying funding and location, some sites are visitor-rich, while many struggle to survive. We feel that this variance damages history education. The public is led to believe that some historic narratives are more important than others, and that historic experiences are held in orbit around high-visitation areas and the often short-lived, singular historic events promoted by those areas.
We feel that responsibly designed augmented reality can serve as an equalizer. Once the world becomes the museum, the public is offered exciting and thought-provoking experiences throughout a region, and throughout time periods.
Gettysburg visitors can be drawn, through interactive personal stories, from the battlefield to the town. The general public will discover that the Civil War affected every city and town in Pennsylvania, and that the experiences of Pennsylvanians before, during, and after the conflict are valid history worthy of attention. If the values of historic sites become more equalized by the extension of historic experience into the outside world, the large number of struggling and underfunded historical institutions in Pennsylvania will directly benefit.