Check out this comment from Jeff Curto, one of the people whose podcasts I featured in an earlier post. Note, in particular, the reaction of his students to being part of a larger audience. His perception of their response squares with what I’ve learned over the years about students and online writing. The larger the…
Tag: Podcasting
History Course Podcasts
After some back and forth with myself over what to do about podcasting, I’ve made the decision to podcast my summer school course on 19th century Europe. The back and forth was not about the virtues of podcasting, but about the technical aspects. Of course, it means I’m going to have to go and upgrade…
History Course Podcasts (cont’d)
Several years ago I wrote an essay for Perspectives, the monthly newsletter of the American Historical Association, called Toward Transparency in Teaching. The essay focused largely on course portfolios and how they had become an important component of the scholarship of teaching and learning. But the real hook for the essay was the idea that…
History Course Podcasts
The podcasting of history courses has begun. In a quick search of the web I found several examples of history courses being podcasted by their instructors: Jennifer Burns’ Introduction to the History of the United States at Berkeley Thomas Laqueur’s European Civilization course at Berkeley Jeff Curto’s History of Photography at the College of DuPage…