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Tag: Think Alouds

Eight Guys From Trenton (cont’d)

Posted on December 11, 2008December 11, 2008 by Mills

A couple of years ago I wrote a piece for the blog on my favorite eight guys from Trenton. I have updated information on these fellows. I still don’t know who they are, but I know a lot more than I used to about the image itself. I’m not why, but in a fit of…

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Historical Thinking Submerged

Posted on December 1, 2006December 26, 2006 by Mills

A second project I want to highlight from my graduate seminar Teaching History in the Digital Age is by Kurt Knoerl. Kurt is the owner and webmaster of the Museum of Underwater Archaeology and one of the PhD students in our program. The Museum exists entirely online, but Kurt has plans to establish a distributed…

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Me Media

Posted on October 2, 2006December 14, 2009 by Mills

A couple of summers ago I gave a series of workshops under the aegis of the various Teaching American History grants that the Center for History and New Media runs in conjunction with area school districts. One set of those talks was captured on tape and is now available online. Watching yourself teach is fairly…

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Eight Guys From Trenton

Posted on September 13, 2006 by Mills

Ever since I first encountered the work of Sam Wineburg, I’ve tried to incorporate “think alouds” into my teaching as a way of getting my students to see how it is that we construct historical understanding. At first, I tried using texts, but I found this too cumbersome, so I switched to images. I almost…

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