Old is the New New

History is too important to take seriously.

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Suffering from Turkel withdrawal? Bill takes part in the Day of Digital History with a day in his awesome life.  I have a quick cameo, spoiling his lunch. (The orange shirt was an experiment, btw, and minutes after that photo I got a haircut.)

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Canadian wise men discover the secret of pottery: deconstructing the Civilization tech tree.

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The revolution will not be televised?

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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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