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Not long ago, the fabulous students of my Scientific Revolution grad seminar completed their second of two assignments to create or contribute to a Wikipedia article on a topic relevant to the course. I had considered using such an assignment in previous courses, but harbored some doubts about it: Is this a useful type of  [read on...]

Just one week ago, the Center for History and New Media was renamed to the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media in honor of its irreplaceable and indefatigable late founder. I never met Roy; I came to CHNM too late. But he’s everywhere: virtually everyday I experience the products of his vision, boundless  [read on...]

For a presentation i recently gave at the University of Minnesota, i experimented with a presentation tool that was new to me: Prezi. To learn what it can do, just watch one of the very short videos on their website. Very briefly: the basic idea is that you can lay out your presentation (text, embedded  [read on...]

I recently discovered Mark Sample’s Profhacker article on developing a rubric for evaluating blog posts, which i think is fantastic in highlighting the difficulties of evaluating posts in class blogs. His post challenged to me to get clear about how i ‘grade’ blog posts (since i really don’t), which in turn made me reconsider what  [read on...]