Our second meeting of the new steering committee of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History took place yesterday and resulted in a provisional agreement with Barbara Cambridge of the ISSOTL that we can become one of ISSOTL’s first affiliated societies. Now we just need to spruce up the website–my…
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Talking About Images in Flickr
Our grad student Ken Albers recently alerted me to a new feature in Flickr that allows registered users to mark up images in the Flickr database with commentary. At least one instructor is already using this feature to teach. Flckr user beth_h. has an example of a group of students analyzing a painting. What you…
Objects of Communism
We’ve started to play with the images of the objects we photographed at the Wende Museum last month–objects we’ll be using in the 1989 project database. Here are just three examples of the sorts of things we’re planning to include: Object 1 This first object is a flashlight. It’s dimensions are approximately 4″ tall by…
The Timeline of 1989
One of the things we want to build into our 1989 project is a timeline of events that will help students to visualize what happened in some sort of chronological sequence. Thanks to a tip from our PhD student Ken Albers, I’ve been playing with the open source timeline creator at Simile–an MIT project. The…