My essay “The Role of Technology in World History Teaching” has finally seen the light of day–or, in this case, the light of pixels. This is an essay I originally wrote as a paper for a conference at the German Historical Institute here in Washington back in February 2005. The essay you can read now…
Managing Synchronous Discussions Online
Melete Online offers a link to a nice essay by Craig W. Smith on managing online chats within the framework of a course. In the essay, Smith offers concrete advice on managing the flow of conversation in multi-student chats, something that many instructors have found difficult (or so I’m told). Reading this essay got me…
Wikis Past and Future
My colleague Roy Rosenzweig has just published “Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past” in the Journal of American History (93/1), in which he offers both a history of the Wikipedia and suggestions for its future, especially as concerns history and historians. If you don’t already know the history of…
What happens when people link to your blog…
Blog spam. Bleh! In the last five days this blog has had 118 spam comments inserted in its entries. Fortunately, the junk comment filters caught 116 of those automatically. We all know what a pain spam is in our emails and those of us who use blogs know it can be just as annoying. There…