I just found out today that I’ll be spending my spring break teaching a four day workshop on teaching history and using technology in that teaching in Phnom Penh. This is something that has been in the works for a while, but was only confirmed this morning. I owe huge thanks to Teachers Across Borders…
Tag: World History
Award Winning World History
I’m very pleased to announce that World History Matters has won the American Historical Association’s James Harvey Robinson Prize, a biennial award for “the teaching aid that has made the most outstanding contribution to the teaching of history in any field.” Like all good digital history projects, World History Matters is a collaboration of many…
What Happens When You Turn Grad Students Loose
This semester the students in my graduate course Teaching History in the Digital Age produced either digital projects (if they had the tech skills) or concept papers for digital projects (if they didn’t). I’ve already highlighted two of the digital projects (and will highlight one more shortly). Today I want to call attention to the…
Darwin and More Darwin
Everyone teaching European history, World history, or biology owes a big thank you to the fine folks at Christ’s College, Cambridge, for aggregating every word Charles Darwin ever wrote into one website. Darwin Online offers visitors an amazing collection of more than 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images. The site’s creators have also put…