It’s hard to believe, but Tom, Dan, and I have revisited the world of eBooks on Digital Campus. The biggest part of our discussion was on the merits or lack thereof of the new Kindle reader about to debut from Amazon. Of course, we have to speak speculatively, because none of the three of us…
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Pirates on YouTube
In what I hope will be my last post on my hoax course (because the criticisms from certain quarters have become repetitive), I want to pass along a link to a YouTube video about our course produced by Jerry Griffith, a local videographer and spouse of one of our grad students here at Mason. The…
I Hate It When This Happens
Okay, so maybe I was wrong about the good folks at Texas A&M. Maybe I can convince the powers that be here at Mason that we need to implement the A&M reward system retroactive to last semester. If so, the result of my student evaluations for Lying About the Past would almost certainly pay for…
Rewarding Good Teaching
Regular readers of Edwired know that much of my career in higher education has been devoted to the improvement of teaching in history, both at the college and K-12 level. In fact, one of the main goals of this blog was and remains the improvement of history teaching through a broader conversation about what constitutes…