These links are for my presentation, “Teaching Undergraduates with Blogs” at WordCamp Ed DC on November 22, 2008.

Techist — My personal blog on technology and teaching

Course Blogs — Content/Course Management System

• Digital History
• Historical Methods,
• First-Year Seminar (FSEM): When Americans Came Marching Home 2007/2008
• US History in Film

Various Uses for Student Blogs
Research log – Historical Methods

• Topic Discussion
• Research Problems

Reading reaction journal – FSEM

• Reading reactions and related links by R. Welker
• Student-located additional materials by T. Brann

Continuing class discussion – US History in Film

• Recent discussion of The Long Walk Home
• Scroll down to see post-class discussion of Pocahontas

Individual digital projects – US History in Film —

• Grapes of Wrath
• Bonnie & Clyde
• Wall Street

Project management – Digital History

• See Lisa M’s use of her blog as a log of project updates

Digital History Class Projects

• Historical Markers Project
• James Farmer Project
• James Monroe Papers Project

Student Reflections on Digital Projects/Blogging

Be sure to check out Elle W.’s detailed semester account and the Mud Pit’s wrangling with WordPress Multi-User at UMW (with a little teasing of the professor at the end…), while the post title says it all about this student’s reaction to the end of the semester in the 2007 FSEM course.

Other UMW uses of WordPress (Multi-User) Blogs in Teaching

• Marie McCallister’s 18th-Century Audio Blog
• Claudia Emerson’s Literary Journals (e.g., ECOllective)
• Steve Gallik’s Lablogs
• Krystyn Moon’s Consumerism
• Marjorie Och’s Online Venice Exhibit
• Nina Mikhalevsky’s Banned Art
• Anand Rao’s Visual Rhetoric
• Greg Stull’s Ideas in Performance (eportfolio)
• Sue Fernsebner’s Cultural History of Late 20th C. China
• History Department’s blog as Department Management Site (a DMS?)

And this is only a partial list of UMW course/teaching blogs, though many of this semester’s are catalogued here.   See also this link for a discussion of other ways people at UMW are using blogs.

Acknowledgements/Inspirations (Check them out!)

• Barbara Ganley, Alan Levine, Barbara Sawhill, Laura Blankenship, Gardner Campbell, Steve Greenlaw, Kevin Levin

UMW DTLT

• Jim Groom, Jerry Slezak, Martha Burtis, Andy Rush, Patrick Murrayjohn