In a recent opinion piece on general education requirements that appeared in the August 15 edition of The Washington Post, columnist Kathleen Parker opines: Students given so many choices aren’t likely to select what’s good for them. Given human nature, they’ll choose what’s fun, easy or cool — and not early in the morning or…
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New Orleans 33 Years Ago
Today is the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s assault on the city of New Orleans. Of late there have been a lot of news stories about the city’s recovery, or lack of recovery, since those devastating weeks. Over the past several years here at the Center for History and New Media and through the efforts…
Hello Anthologize
You need this tool. Last week the participants in CHNM’s One Week | One Tool workshop have created a WordPress plug-in called Anthologize that lets anyone using WordPress to create tangible publications from digital content. With Anthologize installed, you can grab text from your blog, your various feeds, other people’s blogs and feeds, and produce…
Be Careful What You Wish For
I remember the first time I heard that the history department where I was working on my PhD was going to offer an introductory course called “World History.” Several of us in the TA office had a good chuckle over that one…After all it was hard enough to teach the first or second half of…