In the most recent episode of Digital Campus, Dan and I interviewed Stan Katz (Princeton) about his role in promoting digital history over the past 20 (yes, 20) years. Tom couldn’t join us for the episode because he was at home with the Scheinfeldt family’s new baby. I suppose that qualifies as an excuse. If…
Tag: Digital Media
Pirates on YouTube
In what I hope will be my last post on my hoax course (because the criticisms from certain quarters have become repetitive), I want to pass along a link to a YouTube video about our course produced by Jerry Griffith, a local videographer and spouse of one of our grad students here at Mason. The…
I Hate It When This Happens
Okay, so maybe I was wrong about the good folks at Texas A&M. Maybe I can convince the powers that be here at Mason that we need to implement the A&M reward system retroactive to last semester. If so, the result of my student evaluations for Lying About the Past would almost certainly pay for…
Digital Media and Student Learning
[NB: This post originally appeared in the blog hist.net.] The January issue of Academic Commons highlights the results of several years of research on the intersections between digital media and student learning in the humanities and social sciences. The various essays presented in this issue — and a second issue due out in February —…