In Fall 2009, following the suggestion of Jim Groom and inspiration from the 2009 Faculty Academy, I instituted a course website and a series of chapter blogs as a group assignment for my Western Civilization II course. Together with Jim, I plan to explain how he launched this site, who did what, how I gradedRead More…
This will be a panel discussion of our department’s engagement with social media and digital literacy. Topics for discussions will include: Discussions of blogging with AMST & History classes. Discussion of the way the three of us contribute to the department blog as a way of communicating with our students and the larger community (includingRead More…
In this panel, 3-4 students from the Adventures in Digital History Senior Seminar will discuss the process by which they developed and created group digital history projects on Civil War Fredericksburg, the James Monroe Papers, and Mary Ball Washington. They’ll also discuss how such free-form assignments fit into their liberal arts experience.
Faculty Academy is hosted by UMW's Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies
Faculty Academy 2010 is generously sponsored by UMW's Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning.
