Here at CHNM we’re seeking a new colleague. If this sounds like it might be up your alley, then apply asap. Official Announcement: This is a one- to two-year position (depending on funding) at the rank of Research Assistant Professor at the Center for History and New Media (CHNM), which is closely affiliated with the…
Rethinking Research
In Digital History Hacks, William Turkel is offering up an intriguing series of posts about the ways historians need to start rethinking research, especially bibliographical research, in the digital age. As he points out in one of several recent posts on this subject, The number of records for digital materials entered into WorldCat was less…
History Course Podcasts (cont’d)
Several years ago I wrote an essay for Perspectives, the monthly newsletter of the American Historical Association, called Toward Transparency in Teaching. The essay focused largely on course portfolios and how they had become an important component of the scholarship of teaching and learning. But the real hook for the essay was the idea that…
History Course Podcasts
The podcasting of history courses has begun. In a quick search of the web I found several examples of history courses being podcasted by their instructors: Jennifer Burns’ Introduction to the History of the United States at Berkeley Thomas Laqueur’s European Civilization course at Berkeley Jeff Curto’s History of Photography at the College of DuPage…