Teaching History in the Digital Age

My name is James Feenstra, and I am beginning my Master’s degree in History here at Mason this fall. I was born and raised just outside of Toronto, Ontario, and graduated with a BA in History from the University of Guelph, Ontario with a year spent on exchange at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. I am interested in reading scholarship on how effective various types of new media are as a means of teaching history. I hope that by the end of the semester I will be able to have a grasp on what are and what aren’t effective uses of new media, particularly in the museum field. I would like to be able to look more critically at how museum and historical sites have used new media, and whether this has been at the expense of the quality of historical education, or whether it provides an engaging, fuller account of the history being presented.