The afternoon sessions in the pre-conference workshop included more examples of matured projects, as well as examples of work in progress. During the first session, Tom Ewing showed the Digital History Reader project from Virginia Tech, Steven Mintz showed his Digital History project, and my colleague Kelly Schrum showed off several of our projects from…
At the AHA (Thursday Morning)
I’m at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association today and tomorrow. Today’s event is a pre-conference workshop: “The Intersection of Teaching and Research in the New Media.” In his Keynote Address, Ed Ayers talked about two new projects that he is working on–one that has students at multiple campuses writing what he called…
Talking Heads X 2
My PhD student Misha Griffith pointed me to the website bloggingheads.tv, where two people are shown in video dialog on a particular topic. Unlike the more popular television format of political debate programming like Crossfire, the commentators on bloggingheads engage in much more civil and thoughtful dialog on the issues. As I watched a couple…
Teens and Social Media
The Pew Internet Project released the results of its latest study–Teens and Social Media–on December 19 and this report is a must read for anyone who teaches, whether at the primary, secondary, or post-secondary level. There is a lot in this report to ponder, but from my perspective, the most interesting findings fall into five…