I’ve been blogging a good bit about my own interest in the use of GIS in historical research and teaching. So I thought I’d pass along a little bit of data about the rise of GIS in the historical profession. I supervise a postdoctoral fellowship program here at GMU and in that capacity run the…
Are you sure you really want to create one more PowerPoint slide?
Anyone who knows me knows how I feel about PowerPoint. Like Edward Tufte, I believe it is truly one of the worst things that has happened to education since, well, forever. Earlier this year my older son who is in fourth grade came home and proudly told me how they had spent their entire day…
Changing History?
The other day I received an email from Randall Bytwerk at Calivin College asking me to unlink a website from the archive of one of my class blogs from last year. The site, the Adolf Hitler Historical Museum (Hitler.org), is the first site to come up if one types “Hitler” into Google. This is a…
Collecting the History of A Big Surprise (cont’d)
The GMU Hoops Archive has been a big, albeit short-term, success. Since the site went live on March 30 just under 5,000 visitors have been to the site and the archive contains just under 300 digital objects (159 stories and 135 files). The list below shows that this site, which is tied so closely to…