Course blogs are everywhere these days. While Tumblr and instagram might be the “it” social media of the moment, a course blog’s suitability for exchanging ideas, presenting research, and engaging in an open, distributed conversation is hard to beat. Course blogs come in all shapes and sizes of course, but the format I’ve been using […]
DO Save the Time of the Reader/ Research...
As a historian, I self-identify as a “super searcher.” I was trained to identify and track down whatever evidence I need, regardless of the time, effort, and tedium involved. As a researcher those skills stand me in good stead every day, but as a teacher, I want my students to spend at least as much […]
More Than A Two-Way Conversation
The last time I read Personal Dynamic Media, I blogged about the resonance of Kay and Goldberg’s flute metaphor for the possibilities of creating and communicating with the internet and new media. As a recovering musician with an interest in how music is created and perceived in times of political and social upheaval, I find […]
Blogging Soviet History – Field Report #
With support from the History Department, University Libraries and an Innovation Grant, I’ve been working on a blogging project with my Soviet history course this fall. Lots of people have asked me how things are going, so here’s an update: The short answer is: Great! The slightly longer answer is: There are some kinks to […]