My friend and colleague Peter Haber of the historical seminar at the University of Basel (and co-editor with Jan Hodel of the excellent blog Hist.net) has just published an excellent book that everyone who can read German needs to read: Digital Past: Geschichtswissenschaft im digitalen Zeitalter. The book provides an excellent overview of the history…
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Teaching
My teaching lives at the intersection of history, technology, and what we know about how students learn in the humanities. Over the past decade much of my undergraduate teaching has shifted to focus on giving my students the practical tools they need to translate their learning about the past into marketable job skills beyond the…
My Students’ Take on PowerPoint
As I do every semester in my course The Digital Past, yesterday I asked my students what drives them crazy about how their faculty members use PowerPoint and other slideware in class. Herewith, their litany of complaint: The inclusion of random slides that don’t seem to pertain to what the professor is discussing Slides with…
Almost Approved
So, after 1 year, 3 months, and 13 days, the General Education Committee acted on the proposal I submitted on behalf of our department for a new course called The Digital Past. And, of course, the course was not approved. Their reasoning works like this…After I submitted the proposal, the Committee decided to rewrite the…