[This post is a reposting of a contribution to the blog hist.net.] Because my friendly Amazon.com bot knows that I purchase books on Czech and Slovak history, I just received a notice of a new book on Slovak history titled Slovak Republic (1939-1945): Slovaks, Slovakia, Munich Agreement, History of Czechoslovakia (1948-1989). Because this title seemed…
Author: Mills
I Know…Let’s Blame the Students
Sometimes it seems to me that whenever things go wrong in college teaching, the first impulse of the professor is to blame the students. They aren’t prepared for class. They don’t want to grapple with the hard concepts. They don’t want to read what I assign. They do all their work at the last minute….
Are Teaching Statements Bunk?
Writing in the February 19, 2010 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Kevin Haggerty of the University of Alberta takes on the college teaching statement as a useful source of information about teaching and pronounces the entire genre “bunk.” The essay and the ensuing comments make a very interesting read and I particularly recommend…
Why Collecting History Online is Web 1.5
Last year my colleague Sheila Brennan and I spent some time trying to make sense of the lessons we’d learned from several years of work on the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank–a project that Sheila did the vast majority of the heavy lifting on here at CHNM. The essay we wrote about our experiences is now…