To help everyone remember what you presented tonight, please write up a 2-3 paragraph summary of your final project and post it here. And, as you think of other suggestions for your colleagues, offer those as comments.
November 7, 2006
October 6, 2006
You Go Zotero
The Center for History and New Media has just posted up the Beta version of Zotero, a browser-based citation management system (a la EndNote). It is (of course) free and very powerful–and promises to get more powerful as new features are added–like citation sharing. You need to run Firefox 2.0 (which is also in Beta), but I’ve been using Zotero for a couple of weeks now and already can’t live without it. Download it and give it a try.
Connections to other students
Hi all:
Remember–no class on Tuesday (since it’s a Monday at GMU).
Bill Turkel at the University of West Ontario has posted a link in his blog that makes it possible for the grad students in his digital history seminar, as well as those in Clio Wired here at GMU, to see what everyone is up to. Our class blog is linked as well, so go to their pages when you have a chance and see what these other students are up to. And while you’re there, leave a comment on someone’s post and maybe even make a new friend or colleague.
Enjoy the rain!
September 30, 2006
Links for the articles hosted at CHNM – week 6 readings
The links from the syllabus are incorrect. They should be as follows:
Bass, Randy and Roy Rosenzweig, Rewiring the History and Social Studies Classroom: Needs, Frameworks, Dangers, and Proposals , White Paper for Department of Education, Forum on Technology in K-12 Education: Envisioning a New Future , December 1999
Kelly, T. Mills ” Using New Media to Teach East European History ,” Nationalities Papers (September 2001)
Kobrin, David, ” Using History Matters with a Ninth Grade Class ,” The History Teacher (May 2001)
Schrum, Kelly, ” Making History on the Web Matter in the Classroom ,” The History Teacher (May 2001)
Weis, Tracey, ” Evaluating Websites for History Teachers: Using History Matters in a Graduate Seminar ,” The History Teacher (May 2001)
September 20, 2006
Several relevant articles in current AHA Perspectives
Notice of the latest edition of AHA Perspectives yielded a rich harvest of columns pertinent to our discussions, including one highlighting Dr. Kelly’s blogpost on Welcome to Minsk, FL, History Defined in Florida Legislature by Bruce Craig and the following:
Educating Historians, by Linda K. Kerber; The Historian’s Role in Teacher Education, by Laura M. Westhoff; American Exceptionalism and the Teaching of European History
by Arthur Haberman and Adrian Shubert; History Departments and Accreditation: A Debate by Margaret Crocco, Charles Howlett, and Larry Frohman
September 19, 2006
Updated links for next week
The AHA has changed its links for Cutler’s and Kelly’s course portfolios.
See also: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age: Reconceptualizing the Survey Course.
September 17, 2006
The “More” tag and the categories…
Hi all:
In the interest of improving the readability of our blog, I’d like to suggest that when writing a longer post, you split the post using the “more” tag. On the formatting bar in the “write post” box, it is the icon that looks like a divided box between the tree-like icon and the undo icon.
So, for instance, I edited Susan’s post just below this one and pushed about two-thirds of the text off to the “more” part of the blog. In this way readers can scroll down through the openings of our posts and then decide which ones to consume at length on the first time through.
Also, please try to remember to categorize your posts both by your name and by the week’s topic (where applicable).
See you all on Tuesday…
September 8, 2006
Petition for course offering?
Some of us in class seemed interested in being offered a class where we are taught ‘how’ to read like a historian, ie. the power-reading.
So… let’s do something about it!
Dr. Kelly, how can we do something about it? Do we need a petition with names, and send it to Dr. Holt, or who?
September 2, 2006
Reserve Readings…Argh!
Well, the official word from the Library is (surprise) that they are very backed up on getting e-reserves up online…and hope to be caught up by the end of the day today. We’ll see. In the meantime, Michelle has been a trooper finding most of the other stuff in various places online–thanks Michelle!
I’ll put copies of the AHA reports and the Reitain chapter in the slot on my office door on Tuesday morning (Monday being the holiday) if they haven’t gone up online already. You can skim them before class if you get a chance. If not, no worries.
Sorry this has been so hard!
I hope you all managed to stay dry yesterday. We now know we need a new roof (water spots on the ceiling of various rooms not being what the doctor ordered).