Teaching with Technology

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/24/AR2010042402830.html?nav=hcmoduletmv This article in this morning’s Washington Post caught my eye.  It is in the Business section, but raises a disturbing question about use of computers in class. As most of us have probably realized, our students who bring computers to class to “take notes” or “view our powerpoints,” are doing other things, like social […]

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http://mcel.pacificu.edu/jahc/2006/issue1/articles/vess.php I finally found an article with a title I could keep for my entry this week.  The article is well written and tells the tale of a History professor teaching a survey course in World History and surveying how the students in two different formats of the course used the technology associated with the course.  If this […]

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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/class-struggle/2010/04/washington_areas_top_education.html I noticed this article in the Washington Post last Thursday. Jay Matthews, who authored the piece, is the education writer for the Post and believes that more worthwhile blogs on education are needed. Since all of us have been blogging about education, I thought it might be of interest to the group.

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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb302/is_2_30/ai_n29216309/?tag=content;col1 Brian McKenzie teaches the Western Civilization course at Dickinson College, a small liberal arts school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania (of which, by the way, I am an alumnus).  In this article in Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, from the Fall of 2005 issue, he describes his experience in using simulations prompted by the availability […]

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http://mcel.pacificu.edu/jahc/2006/issue2/mcclurken.php Jeffrey McClurken, a History professor,  and Jerry Slezak, an Instructional TechnologySpecialist teamed up to create an upper level History course at Mary Washington University in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The course they developed has now been taught for a number of years. This article, entitled “Research-Based Web Sites: Students Creating Online Scholarship” in the October 2006 issue of the Journal of […]

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http://mcel.pacificu.edu/jahc/2007/issue2/fehn.php My post this week is from my primary journal source, the  Journal of the Association for History and Computing. The article appeared in the August of 2007 issue and was written by Bruce Fehn, a history professor at the University of Iowa. The title of the article is “Powerpoint and Privileging in Teaching American History: […]

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http://mcel.pacificu.edu/jahc/2008/issue1/vajcner.php This week I have delved into an earlier issue of the Journal of the Association for History and Computing, that of April 2008. In the article I have chosen; “The Importance of Context for Digitized Archival Collections,” the author, Mark Vajcner, discusses the dilemma for archivists related to the widespread use of digitized records. […]

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http://mcel.pacificu.edu/jahc/2008/issue2/j-brown.php My article for this week comes from my primary source journal, The Journal of the Association for History and Computing, from August of 2008 (latest edition published). Its full title is “Using GIS to Drive Research in Undergraduate History Classes – A Report on Five Years of Experimentation with the Modern World History Survey […]

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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb302/is_2_34/ai_n45100148/?tag=content;col1 While my primary journal to review is the Journal of the Association for History and Computing, I have chosen to go to my secondary source for History which is Teaching History: A Journal of Methods. I read the article in the Fall 2009 issue by Julie Hoffman, entitled “Blackboard or Blog? Some thoughts about […]

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