Edwired is gathering steam. According to our logs, this blog has had more than 1,000 visits since January 1. Who knew a blog on teaching history with technology could be interesting to so many people? Now, to put it in perspective, during that same period of time, the various sites that make up the CHNM…
Tag: Academic Commons
Doing Digital History Workshop
Doing Digital History: An Introduction for Historians of Science, Technology, and Industry June 12-16, 2006 The Center for History and New Media’s Echo project invites scholars of the history of science, technology, and industry to our second workshop on the theory and practice of digital history. Participants will explore the ways that digital technologies can…
The Future of the Course (cont’d)
It turns out that what I was predicting in an earlier posting is already happening. The University of Michigan Dental School is using Apple’s iTunesU interface to provide all of their course content via the iTunes interface. How is this changing the educational experience at this particular dental school? Lynn Johnson, Associate Professor of Dentistry…
Best Practices?
I’ve just returned for a two-day meeting where groups of scholars tried to determine what might constitute “best practices” in introductory undergraduate courses in several disciplines. Three of the six groups in attendance were historians (US, European, World) and it was very interesting to watch the way the three groups approached their charge. Each group…