My colleague Zach Schrag gave a presentation this morning on his Historigraphiki, a wiki he created for a graduate readings course in twentieth century American history. Zach created this wiki because he wanted to figure out a way that students could collaborate on the reviews of monographs. In the project, each student reads books from…
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What’s for dinner (cont’d)
My edit of the Donner Party entry in the Wikipedia lasted not quite five days. As I wrote in an earlier post, I changed one sentence in the entry to reflect the work of Kelly Dixon and Julie Schlabitsky on what happened in the Donner family camp. The first paragraph of the entry I read…
Best Practices?
Once again I am taking part in a “best practices” exercise…this one derived from the one I participated in earlier in the year. Back in the winter we came up with a rubric that could be used to score sample syllabi and this morning I read 20 Western Civ syllabi that a panel of raters…
What’s for dinner?
One of the enduring (and horrific) tales of the expansion of the American Republic westward is the story of the ill-fated Donner Party. A group of more than 80 emigrants to California, the Donner Party set out for the West Coast in 1846, but made the mistake of following what was known as the “Hastings…