Readings Schedule

Week One (AUG 22) – Introductions

Week Two (AUG 29) – Blogging about the past

Week Three (SEP 5) – The complexity of teaching & learning history: A multidisciplinary & cognitive approach

Week Four (SEP 12)  – DST: An Introduction

  1. Jason Ohler, Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, and Creativity, 2nd Edition, Thousand Oaks (CA): Corwin Press, 2013. [Course Textbook – Read Part I, Chapters 1-4]
  2. “Overcoming Obstacles: Visually Impaired Student Works with Professor to Turn Digital Storytelling Assignment into Podcast,” George Mason University News. Accessed July 25, 2017. https://www2.gmu.edu/news/419301?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=newsdesk&utm_term=research&utm_content=Jamie_Rogers&utm_campaign=FY17_twitter_050417

Week Five (SEP 19) – Copyright, Copywrong, and Copyleft: Understanding media “fair use” in the digital age

  1. “Copyright for Instructors.” UMW DTLT, November 22, 2016. http://umwdtlt.com/copyright-for-instructors/
  2. Lawrence Lessig, “Introduction,” “Piracy,” and “Chapter One: ‘Creators’” in Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity. New York: Penguin, 2005, pp. 1-30. [Course Textbook / Free Online at: http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf]
    • In .PDF, reading starts on page 17 (of 352)
  3. Educause Learning Initiative, “7 Things You Should Know About….Creative Commons” in Educause, March 2007. https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7023.pdf
  4. Hiawatha Bray, “Aaron Swartz and Copyright Wars in the Internet Age,” Boston Globe, January 28, 2016, Online edition, sec. Book Review. https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2016/01/27/tracing-copyright-wars-internet-age/yLRed5946gSmlbpAMpPDeL/story.html

Week Six (SEP 26) – Collecting, researching, and writing history online

  1. T. Mills Kelly, “Finding: Search Engine Dependent Learning” (Chp. 2) in Teaching History in the Digital Age, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013. Free Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.12146032.0001.001.
  2. Bill Wolff, “Teaching Students How to Create Meaningful Tags” in Bill Wolff, May 13, 2009. http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/teaching-students-how-to-create-meaningful-tags/
  3. Jeff W. McClurken, “Teaching with Omeka” in The Chronicle of Higher Education Blogs: ProfHacker, August 9, 2010. http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/teaching-with-omeka/26078
  4. Richard Byrne. “5 Good Google Tools for Social Studies Students.” Free Technology for Teachers, February 9, 2016. http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/02/5-good-google-tools-for-social-studies.htm

Week Seven (Oct 3) – Visualizing the past

  1. Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1997, pp. 27-37. (Scanned)
  2. Martha A. Sandweiss, “Artifacts as Pixels, Pixels as Artifacts: Working with Photographs in the Digital Age” in Perspectives on History, November 2013. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/november-2013/material-culture-in-the-digital-frame/artifacts-as-pixels-pixels-as-artifacts
  3. John Rosinbum, “Exploring the Brutality of Expansion: Tracking Changes in the 19th Century with American Panorama,” AHA Today – American Historical Association, July 24, 2017. http://blog.historians.org/2017/07/19th-century-american-panorama/
  4. Nishith Sharma, “The 14 Best Data Visualization Tools,” The Next Web, April 21, 2015. https://thenextweb.com/dd/2015/04/21/the-14-best-data-visualization-tools/

Week Eight (OCT 10) – Presenting the past

  1. Edward Tufte, Beautiful Evidence, Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 2006, pp. 156-185. (Scanned)
  2. T. Mills Kelly, “Presenting: Capturing, Creating, and Writing the Past” (Chp. 4) in Teaching History in the Digital Age, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013. Free Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.12146032.0001.001.

Week Nine (OCT 17) – Creating a history-based DST project

  1. Jason Ohler, Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, and Creativity, 2nd Edition, Thousand Oaks (CA): Corwin Press, 2013. [Course Textbook – Read Part II, Chapters 5-10 —read the rest of the book as you craft your DST project]

** FALL BREAK – OCT 13-14 **

Week Ten (OCT 18 & 20) – Social media & the historian

  1. David Parry, “Twitter for Academia” in Academhack, January 23, 2008. http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/twitter-for-academia/.
  2. Jennifer Swartz, “Stepping Through the Looking Glass: Twitter for Educators,” Jennifer Swartz, April 8, 2017, https://jenniferswartz.com/2017/04/08/stepping-through-the-looking-glass-twitter-for-educators/
  3. Kayla Delzer, “Three Reasons Students Should Own Your Classroom’s Twitter and Instagram Accounts” in EdSurge, February 3, 2016. https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-02-03-three-reasons-students-should-own-your-classroom-s-twitter-and-instagram-accounts.
  4. Hannah Hudson, “10 Surprising Ways to Use Instagram in the Classroom” in We Are Teachers, August 7, 2014. http://www.weareteachers.com/blogs/post/2014/08/07/10-ways-to-use-instagram-in-the-classroom.
  5. Amanda Grace Sikarskie, “Citizen Scholars: Facebook and the Co-creation of Knowledge” in Writing History in the Digital Age, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013. Free Online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/dh.12230987.0001.001

Week Eleven (OCT 31) – Presentations: Omeka.Net projects

  • None

Week Twelve (NOV 7) – Lab Week: DST

  1. James M. Lang, “The Distracted Classroom,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 13, 2017, http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Distracted-Classroom/239446

Week Thirteen (NOV 14) – Lesson demos: Social Media or Presentations

  • None

Week Fourteen (NOV 21) – Open Lab / Final Exam / Teaching history through games

  1. Kevin Kee and Shawn Graham, “Teaching History in an Age of Pervasive Computing: The Case for Games in the High School and Undergraduate Classroom” in Pastplay: Teaching and Learning History with Technology, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014. Free Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.12544152.0001.001.
  2. Ed Webb, “Learning (Together) with Games – Civilization and Empire” in The Academic Commons, July 23, 2014. http://www.academiccommons.org/2014/07/23/learning-together-with-games-civilization-and-empire/

** THANKSGIVING BREAK – NOV 22-24 **

Week Fifteen (NOV 28) – DST Film Screenings // What is “true” history?

  1. T. Mills Kelly, “True Facts or False Facts —Which Are More Authentic” in Pastplay: Teaching and Learning History with Technology, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014. Free Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.12544152.0001.001.

Week Sixteen (Dec 5) – Final Thoughts: Where do historians go from here?

  1. Leslie Madsen-Brooks, “‘I Nevertheless Am a Historian’: Digital Historical Practice and Malpractice around Black Confederate Soldiers” in Writing History in the Digital Age, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013. Free Online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/dh.12230987.0001.001
  2. Patrick Manning, “Digital World History: An Agenda” in DH Project, April 2007. http://digitalhistory.unl.edu/essays/manningessay.php
  3. T. Mills Kelly, “Conclusion” in Teaching History in the Digital Age, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013. Free Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.12146032.0001.001.
  • READING DAY: DEC 7 // EXAM DAY: DEC 14 (2:00PM-4:30PM)