Greetings!
A brief introduction to foreground my role as session facilitator: As a graduate student at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, I have had the privilege of working for Doug Seefeldt and Will Thomas on research-based digital projects and in the development of digital projects designed for classroom teaching. Among other things, we have helped students learn how to use the web responsibly (learning to distinguish “Joe’s Civil War Page” from the “Valley of the Shadow,” for example), to build wikis to improve research and writing skills, and showed them ways to develop digital content collections.
At our workshop on Saturday (and on this blog before Saturday – hint, hint) I would like to hear how you are using digital resources in your courses – Western history or otherwise.
Some areas for thought/discussion:
- Which types of digital assignments have you found useful and why did they work well?
- What hasn’t worked? Why?
- What types of sites do you use and how much guidance do you give students about web resources?
- What kind of tools do you have students using?
- Have the assignments in your courses changed and how have they changed with the increasing availability of digital resources?
These are just a few questions to get the ball rolling – please contribute your thoughts and ideas here! I look forward to hearing from those able to attend the workshop in person and those who will be using this blog and/or twitter to follow the Digital History Workshop.
Digital Frontiers: A WHA Digital History Blog 