Online Writing
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Aggregated Work
- 2012 UMW Convocation Keynote
- The Digital Projects
- Part of Our Classroom Re-creation
- Last class editing
- Criteria for Digital History Projects
- Images from the Re-Creation
- Women’s History Class Projects, continued
- An Outline for Re-Creating a 1952 History Class
- Class Re-creation Schedule going forward
- Initial ideas for class re-creation
Author Archives: Jeffrey McClurken
2012 UMW Convocation Keynote
The following is a speech that I was invited to give to graduating seniors at the pre-graduation awards ceremony known as Convocation. If you’re not at UMW, some of the inside jokes will not make as much sense so I’ve included some links or annot… Continue reading
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Women’s History Class Projects, continued
So, a semester’s work of work comes down to tomorrow. As I’ve discussed before, my Women’s History since 1870 course has spent the semester researching and creating a classroom from the mid-20th Century.The students in the class spent the first h… Continue reading
Posted in archives, blogging, class, gender, higher education, History, Pedagogy, Teaching, women
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Visiting Parson Weems’s House
A bit of a break from my normal discussions about teaching and technology:Today, my family and I had the chance to visit a house once owned by Parson (Mason Locke) Weems, famed for writing the first biography of George Washington (and the man responsib… Continue reading
Vote now on the UMW decade sites
The research sites on the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s that my US Women’s History students have created as part of our project to re-create the Mary Washington college classroom experience are now up on the course site.Please check the sites out… Continue reading
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What do we call that "digital" thing that we want to teach?
I’ve been wrestling with the notion of an interdisciplinary academic program for undergraduates that engages students in thoughtful consumption of digital media, in production of scholarly and creative work in various forms of digital media, and in exp… Continue reading
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The Assignment for Recreating the historical MWC Classroom
As I discussed in this post, my US Women’s History since 1870 class will be working on a project in which the ultimate goal is to be able to recreate a class session or two from the middle of the 20th Century.Here is the assignment that I developed for… Continue reading
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Re-Creating the College Classroom of the Past
I just sent the following email to one of my classes for the Spring. Hello all,Thanks for signing up for History 328: US Women’s History since 1870. I wanted to give you a little preview of my plans for our class next semester because the resea… Continue reading
Posted in class, Digital History, gender, higher education, History, interview, Pedagogy, Real_School, Teaching, UMW, women
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Fall 2011 — A new building, a new classroom, a new course
[Picture created using the iPhone app from Microsoft, Photosynth]The class was the History of the Information Age, the building was Monroe Hall, and the classroom is our new flexible space classroom. Look for a post on the latter coming in the ne… Continue reading
Info Age #4 — The Documentaries
[Be sure to check out the earlier installments of my discussion of my History of the Information Age senior seminar as well: here, here, and here, as well as the class timeline and the list of the first se... Continue reading
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Info Age Assignment # 3 — The advertisements
[Though I still need to go back and blog about the first two assignments in my History of the Information Age senior seminar (the creation of our class timeline and the first set of projects to be placed in that timeline), I decided to go ahead and pos... Continue reading
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