Old Is The New New

Sweet: Mills Kelly’s why-didn’t-I-think-of-that class on historical hoaxes has completed, and come clean on, their promised hoax.

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Don’t get me started.

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Mills Kelly is teaching a course this year that has me seething with jealousy awed respect: Lying About The Past, complete with a second term create-a-hoax practicum.

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Write up and reflection on THATCamp 2008, an excellent “unconference” on digital technology and the humanities.

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Hot teacher meme of the moment (by which I mean the meme is hot; I make no judgment re the teachers): “edupunk.”

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Synopsis of my new course on science, technology, and global history.

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I am enraptured with this graphic showing box office receipts from 1986 to 2008.

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Teaching history from back from front.

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A course I’d like to teach on gaming, simulation, and history.

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How I spent 1993. Or, why computer games are not effective tools for teaching history and how they could be.

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