One of the most difficult things to teach budding historians is that every single primary source has to be considered from many different angles and perspectives before we can begin to make sense of that source. Of course, we need to know such things as who created it and why, when it was created, and…
Research on Blogging
Here at George Mason, we have a cohort of faculty who are all using blogs in their classes and are working together to share our experiences as the year goes along. At our group lunch today we heard a presentation from Ying Xie, a PhD student in instructional design from Penn State, who presented some…
A Confluence of Interests
Regular readers of this blog know that I have a strong professional interest in things East European (or what we used to call East European–now East Central European or Southeast European) and things Cambodian. The East European interest is professional–I’m an East Europeanist by training. The second is personal and professional–I spent a very exciting…
The End of H-Net? (5)
For those of you following the discussion here about H-Net, listservs and blogs, and the future of scholarly conversations in a digital environment, here are a couple of additional links for you. The discussion of these issues that is going on on the H-German list has included two more posts. Here is a clip from…