Old is the New New

Old is the New New

Entries Tagged as 'Teaching'

Playful Historical Thinking

March 8th, 2010 · 5 Comments

History is too important to take seriously.

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Tags: Academia · History@Play · Teaching

Day In The Life

March 19th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Tags: Academia · Asides · Digital History · Teaching

Technology Grows On Trees

March 18th, 2009 · 9 Comments

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

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Tags: Academia · Favorites · Games and Gaming · History@Play · Teaching · Technology

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

January 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments

The revolution will not be televised?

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Tags: Teaching

Pants Extinguished

December 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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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Tags: Academia · Concept Courses · History@Play · Teaching

Are Whales Fish?

December 8th, 2008 · 16 Comments

Don’t get me started.

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Tags: Favorites · Teaching

Pants On Fire

August 25th, 2008 · 4 Comments

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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Tags: Academia · Asides · Concept Courses · History@Play · Teaching

All That Camp

June 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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

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Tags: Academia · Digital History · Favorites · History@Play · Teaching · Technology

Edupunk

June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Academia · Asides · Teaching

On A Planetary Scale

May 19th, 2008 · 8 Comments

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

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Tags: Academia · Concept Courses · Favorites · Teaching · Technology