Over the next 24 hours thousands, if not tens of thousands, of pages of text will appear on the Internet that will be of use to historians–books via Google, government documents, primary sources from archives, and many more. This blessing and curse of the digital age presents those of us who teach history with a…
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Back to School at Digital Campus
Digital Campus has gone back to school at last. Episode 31 of our podcast is now up and available for your listening enjoyment. Among the topics Dan, Tom, and I discussed in this episode are the launch of Google’s Chrome browser and what this might mean for higher education and, most importantly, what trends in…
Flickr Commons Expands
[NB: This post originally appeared on the blog hist.net.] The photosharing website Flickr has expanded its “Commons” project. I wrote about the first iteration several months ago describing the decision by the American Library of Congress to allow the public to start marking up images from their collection. Since that time, Flickr (owned by Yahoo!)…
A Crisis of Diminishing Expectations (cont’d)
On Thursday I wrote about a comment I’ve received from many students over the years that spoke to their declining expectations from history classes and the need to rethink what we’re doing to make history courses more appealing, more fun, while remaining rigorous and true to our discipline. I set myself the task of thinking…