This is my reading list for my minor in digital history, which included a separate course on Digital Pedagogy and Advanced Programming for Historians. I’ve included some of the readings from the Digital Pedagogy class here. The full list is available at our Zotero Group. Our advanced programming course was primarily a praxis; there were no…
Author: erinbush
Putting Theory in Action in the Classroom
Women on Trial: Exploring the History of American Women Through Criminal Trials [cp_dropcaps]F[/cp_dropcaps]or my final project for Dr. Kelly’s Teaching History in the Digital Age course, I created a 200-300 level course women’s history in America, which incorporates three major theoretical contributions from the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: “Uncoverage” and using consistency and patterns in…
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
I gave a presentation at the inaugural Women’s History in the Digital World conference at Bryn Mawr a couple of weeks ago. In the spirit of openness, they posted it to their online repository. It’s available here.
Scholarly Site Review: US History Scene
This post is part of an assignment for GMU’s History course, Teaching History in the Digital Age. Last week, I reviewed two sites produced by RRCHNM. _____________________________ This week, Dr. Kelly asked us to review a digital project outside the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. For this assignment, I chose US History…
Historical Resources Online and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
As part of an assignment for Dr. Kelly’s History 689: Teaching History in the Digital Age, we were asked to evaluate two digital projects. I looked at two projects devoted to teaching history with online primary source material developed and published by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at my home institution of…
How I Learned to Read Class Materials on my iPad
I’ve always been a paper person. I like to print articles and mark them up in multi-colored highlighters. I write notes in the margins. I employ a complicated symbol system of stars, boxes, brackets and arrows to help me keep track of my thoughts. The process of writing it down helps me to clarify my…