Today we kick off THATCamp 2011 at CHNM. The first post I wrote about THATCamp was way back in 2008 (a whole generation in Internet years). That first iteration brought 70 participants to the Center. This year we have 100…a limit imposed only by the fire department capacity of the large meeting room in our…
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When Student Projects Take Wing
Way back in the fall 2006 semester, I taught my first version of my grad seminar Teaching History in the Digital Age. A key component of that course is that students must either create a digital learning tool/application/opportunity for students and/or teachers to use or, if they don’t yet have the digital skills, must create…
Remix History
An essay of mine on the ways that students are beginning to play with history using digital media, “But Mine’s Better”: Teaching History in a Remix Culture has just appeared in the May 2011 issue of The History Teacher (44/3: 369-378), and is the featured article on the journal’s website page for the new edition….
The Five Page Paper and the History Degree
Over the past week there has been a lot of hand wringing in American higher education over a recent study by the Pew Research Center, “Is College Worth It?.” The study, conducted with The Chronicle of Higher Education, makes it abundantly clear that a growing majority of American adults no longer believes that higher education…