Talk about dropping the ball on this. Earlier this fall, I wrote a guest blog post at the Play the Past group blog on an experiment I’m conducting in a couple of my European civilizations courses this semester. It’s entitled … Continue reading
The following is connected to the Can’t Stop Thinking About Teaching post I made last week or so. It’s a scanned snapshot of a work in progress, namely my sketching out of new, interactive modules for my HST 102 Intro … Continue reading
I am in the process of blowing up the structure and organization for my various classes over the next school year at GVSU. This despite the fact that it is summer, and I should be laying out in the sun … Continue reading
This is what you should be looking at today: ChronoZoom — Perfect Big History visualization for my students… (h/t @electricarchaeo on Twitter for bringing this to my attention) … Continue reading
Yesterday, I attended the first day session of Great Lakes THATCamp 2011, a regional unconference hosted at Michigan State University. Originally spun off from the Mother Ship THATCamp (aka Prime) first organized by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and … Continue reading
Per usual, as a school year winds down, I find myself thinking way too much about what changes I want to make to my classes, my classroom pedagogy, or whatever for next year. This is a problem because I should … Continue reading
Earlier today, I gave a presentation to the GVSU History Department faculty colloquium dealing with my groping attempts the last few years to integrate digital humanities methods and thinking into my academic life. The title of the talk is, tongue … Continue reading
Yesterday, the WordPress database for my Devenney Teaching Hub website took a dump most conveniently right before midterms. Cue endless panic from students who should have downloaded the study guides a month ago when they were posted. This morning, I … Continue reading
I showed The Battle of Algiers (1966) in my Europe since World War II class earlier tonight, and while I was watching, I scribbled random notes to myself (a good habit to have when it comes to talks and such). … Continue reading
In a fit of productivity (and perhaps mania), I decided the other day to expand the online, digital footprint of the courses that I teach. To that end, I have created a clearinghouse website called the Devenney Teaching Hub, which … Continue reading