I have now constructed the project on a Google Sites website, provisionally titled, “Contextualizing Lincoln on Slavery, Race, and Civil Rights.” The website has two pages. The first page introduces
Category: Digital History Teaching
Presenting the Past Using Digital Tools for TeachingPresenting the Past Using Digital Tools for Teaching
Digital tools offer teachers of history several challenges in developing assignments for students that reflect historical thinking. If we consider the Internet a digital took, a basic challenge arises from
Digital History Teaching Project: Fifth Piece of the PuzzleDigital History Teaching Project: Fifth Piece of the Puzzle
At the expense of sounding like a broken record (if anyone recognizes the meaning of that simile anymore), this project continues as an exercise for advanced undergraduate or graduate students
Digital History Teaching Project: What digital skill should students learn? And what content am I competent to use to teach that skill?Digital History Teaching Project: What digital skill should students learn? And what content am I competent to use to teach that skill?
This project continues to be an exercise in teaching college students about the historical thinking skill of contextualization. With the thickening the project to include more in-depth activities, I am
Using digital images and film to teach the Boston MassacreUsing digital images and film to teach the Boston Massacre
I would like to use a series of images of the famous 1770 Boston Massacre to teach students to think about how historical interpretation changes over time, and why those
Digital history teaching project: a fourth puzzle pieceDigital history teaching project: a fourth puzzle piece
To incorporate pertinent visual images into my Lincoln-Douglas debates teaching project, I plan to use some political cartoons produced in the politically fraught years surrounding 1858. The images have been
Digital history teaching project: third piece of the puzzleDigital history teaching project: third piece of the puzzle
To reprise, I wish to develop a project using the text of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, focused on what the two Illinois statesmen said about slavery and race.
Digital history teaching project: second piece of the puzzleDigital history teaching project: second piece of the puzzle
I am drawn to trying to use Voyant as a digital tool because of its fairly easy to understand steps to allow a novel reading of text, the ways it
Despite the past, can the latest attempt to change history pedagogy succeed? And is there a role for digital history?Despite the past, can the latest attempt to change history pedagogy succeed? And is there a role for digital history?
The readings illustrate that though periodically challenged by reformers, mainstream history teaching at both the secondary and college level has attempted to ensure that students acquire sufficient knowledge of historical
Digital history teaching project: first piece of the puzzleDigital history teaching project: first piece of the puzzle
For this course’s project I would like to try to use a text mining tool, Voyant, I have learned about previously in the program. I am interested to explore one