My graduate students have weighed in on the topic of “digital classrooms” in their class blog. Their postings are very instructive because they offer the view of the next generation of historians on where digital media will (and won’t) take us in the teaching and learning of history. As I read their contributions to the…
Changing attitudes
This past weekend I attended the national conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in Salt Lake City. In addition to the usual conference activities of presenting a paper, serving as the discussant on a panel, and doing a lot of schmoozing with colleagues, I attended my first meeting of the…
Historical Hoaxes Online
Of late the Internet has spawned some very interesting historical hoaxes. My current favorite is Boilerplate. Mechanical Marvel of the Nineteenth Century. Another recent example is the Old Negro Space Program documentary about America’s now forgotten Blackstronauts. I think it’s easy to imagine a student finding his or her way to one of these websites…
Rewriting a mission
Here at George Mason University we are in the process of splitting our College of Arts and Sciences in two, thereby creating a College of Mathematics and Science and a College of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CLAHS). The reasons for this are long and not so interesting. What is interesting is that for…