Tom Scheinfeldt at Foundhistory.org wrote a post yesterday about the ways that Twitter is helping CHNM promote Omeka and create communities of practice for this new platform. In Tom’s post, he called my attention to an excellent post on the uses of Twitter in teaching. I’m not a Twitter user, largely because I already get…
Tag: Eastern Europe
AHA Talks January 2008
I recorded two of my talks at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington, D.C., January 2008. The first one is the presentation I gave at the pre-conference workshop on the intersection of teaching, research, and new media. The second one was a presentation about the 1989 project that we are working…
Geographies of Terror in Poland
I am now a participant in the group blog hist.net based in Switzerland. Before writing anything for the blog, I perused the entries for the past year and was particularly excited by several of them. The one I want to feature today is a post by Marcin Wilkowski about two websites based in Poland that…
Tagging History
I’m writing this post from Prague where I am leading a study tour for George Mason University. Over the last two years I’ve noticed a greater and greater volume of graffiti (mostly tagging) in the historic districts of cities like Prague and Florence. I’m not sure what it means of why it is happening, but…