43 Things is a social networking site where users list their goals and record their progress towards meeting these goals, earning symbolic rewards and applause for success. The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published some amusing faculty to-do lists to illustrate “The 24/7 Professor: What to do when home is just another word for the [...]
Archive for February, 2008
23 (or 43) Things: Zotero
Posted in 23 (or 43) Things, Education, National History Day, history, tagged 43 Things, Center for History and New Media, Foxfire, students, zotero on February 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Reading History: Dayton Teachers History Book Club
Posted in Dayton, Education, history, reading, tagged book club, Center for the Book, Dayton, Dayton Public Schools, historical fiction, Library of Congress, Montaillou, Newberry Medal, podcasts, The Assassins Gallery on February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As we wrapped up the Dayton Teaching American History grant project, history teachers and I organized the Dayton Teachers History Book Club. Participants teach in elementary, middle, and secondary schools and in language arts, social studies, computer technology, nursing as well as women’s studies, and African American history. We have been meeting for [...]
Early Modern Notes: Alternatives to Execution
Posted in history, popular history, tagged British history, crime, Early Modern Notes, execution, Sharon Howard on February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sharon Howard included Tellhistory on her Blogroll so I’ve been reading her blog, Early Modern Notes. From what I’ve read about blogging it is a great way to share the discoveries or random ideas that may not yet be ready for publication but that you just want to tell others about. Sharon works [...]
“We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For”
Posted in Dayton, Education, civic engagement, narrative, oral history, scholarship, tagged civic engagement, civil rights, democratic citizenship, Harry Boyte, June Jordan, Kettering Foundation, Obama, peer-review, scholarship of service, service learning on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Harry Boyte, from the University of Minnesota, shared with us the history of the Obama campaign phrase, “we are the ones we have been waiting for.” In a column for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, he took Maureen Dowd to task for suggesting Maria Shriver was the source of the quote. Instead, Boyte recalls the [...]
CFP: Oral History Association Digital Showcase
Posted in history, oral history, tagged cfp, conference, digital showcase, oral history association on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Call for Presentations: Oral History Digital Showcase
2008 OHA Annual Meeting
A Convergence of Interests: Oral History in the Digital Age
October 15 – 19, 2008
Sheraton Station Square Hotel , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania
In the spirit of this year’s theme, “A Convergence of Interests: Oral History in the Digital Age,” the 2008 Annual Meeting will focus special attention [...]
Deliberative Democracy and Higher Education
Posted in Education, civic engagement, history, scholarship, tagged civic engagement, democratic citizenship, Harry Boyte, Kettering Foundation on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In preparation for the plenary session, the Kettering Foundation sent the following texts along with the framing statement and the David Mathews’ essay discussed earlier:
Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy and John Puckett, Dewey’s Dream: Universities and Democracies in an Age of Education Reform (Temple University Press, 2007)–this publication addresses a theme that would be repeated [...]
Civic Learning
Posted in Cityfolk, Education, civic engagement, history, narrative, oral history, tagged "Uprising of '34", civic engagement, civic learning, Judith Helfand, Kettering Foundation, NERCHE on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The film “Uprising of ‘34” tells the story of the General Strike that impacted textile mills and mill towns across the American South. Defiant mill workers confronted the control of mill owners. The Uprising brings into relief relationships of class, race, gender, power, and autonomy. The filmmakers entered communities and stirred up the painful [...]
The Past Discussed Quarterly
Posted in history, scholarship, tagged archaeology, blog, Cliopatria, Creative Commons, peer-review, scholarship, The Past Discussed Quarterly on February 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Ancient World Bloggers Group has announced the publication of a new journal. The Past Discussed Quarterly (PDQ) is a serious answer to those who have been uncomfortable recognizing digital scholarship in the absence of peer review. The quarterly will “provide a bridge between bloggers in the broadest sense and non-blogging academics.” The publication does [...]
One Laptop in Archaeology
Posted in history, tagged archaeology, OLPC on February 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A number of archaeology blogs have raised the possibility of using the One Laptop Per Child “XO” computer for field archaeology. See “One Laptop Per Archaeologist” on Pastxting.
