Our second meeting of the new steering committee of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History took place yesterday and resulted in a provisional agreement with Barbara Cambridge of the ISSOTL that we can become one of ISSOTL’s first affiliated societies. Now we just need to spruce up the website–my…
Internationalizing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History
I spent most of the day today in conversations with colleagues from the UK, Australia, and the US working on the beginnings of an international organizations of historians working on the scholarship of teaching and learning in our field. The cabal consisted of David Pace and Keith Erekson (Indiana), Sean Brawley (New South Wales), Alan…
Talking About Images in Flickr
Our grad student Ken Albers recently alerted me to a new feature in Flickr that allows registered users to mark up images in the Flickr database with commentary. At least one instructor is already using this feature to teach. Flckr user beth_h. has an example of a group of students analyzing a painting. What you…
Happy Birthday Edwired
The birthday of my blog slipped by me last month. It’s hard to believe that it has now been a year (plus two weeks) since I started this blog. One hundred plus entries later, I’m still finding plenty to write about–testimony to the constantly changing nature of the technologies we are using to teach about,…