“UCR in the archives”
Undergraduate history research seminar in the archive with Storymaps as final projects
VR and humanities – a 5 minute talk
Last week at the Digital Media & Learning conference at UC Irvine – my first Ignite talk, and the perfect format in which my high-speed delivery…
DH grad seminar – day 1: on gender bias in games and history
There are 11 of us in the class (including me). We started the class by playing Timeline (because, you know, we are historians). Timeline is a…
Doing DH and stuff in Mexico City
Last week I flew to amazing Mexico City to speak about digital archiving and economic history at the Colegio de México. It is always great…
It’s the end of the term, and we know it: initial results on the latest iteration of an online class (+ a holiday wish list)
The 163 students in History 19WV submitted their final paper last night. You did it guys! Good luck on finals and enjoy your break! And thanks for filling…
The agony and the ecstasy of discussion boards
A long time ago, I tried to use the Blackboard discussion board. I quickly decided I would rather push needles into my eyes than do that…
Modeling manners online
I have been teaching online over the last couple of years, and the classes are getting bigger. This means – more students, more TAs, more google hangouts,…
Teaching online with Jorge Luis Borges
This week, students in my online class learnt about the fallibility of maps and cartographers, who as one astute student said, contributed to the “zombiefication of history”.…
The end of front-row bias
The affordance of the physical classroom dictates that there must be a front row. No matter what type of student you are, on day 1 of class,…
Technology and the future of the University of California : a one-day summit
On October 24th I will be speaking, with a host of other awesome people here: http://ucengage2014.ucop.edu/. I am quite excited to share a day with, among…
Juliette Levy 