Teaching History

Step by Step: Zotero

February 22, 2011

In this post, I’ll explain to students how to install Zotero on their home computers. As a teaching assistant, I’ve found this to be the most useful technological skill that I’ve taught undergraduates – many have confirmed this by noting how they now use it.

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Making History More Than Your Story

January 26, 2011

A discussion of some ways teachers can keep history relevant for students.

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Laptops in the Classroom

January 17, 2011

Do laptops have a place in the lecture hall? An ongoing debate has raged over whether they do. I believe that we need to reframe our teaching approach as adult education and adapt to the use of technology.

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Echoes and Reflections: A Multimedia Curriculum on the Holocaust

January 12, 2011

Resources for teaching about the Holocaust and genocide.

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Summary of Teaching History in Diverse Venues

December 9, 2010

Thirty-six historians, educators, museum professionals and graduate students from across the country attended the first of what we hope will be an annual workshop offered by THEN/HiER in partnership with ActiveHistory.ca.

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‘All the world’s a stage’: Performance in the Classroom

October 4, 2010

Performance is an important theoretical concept in the history classroom. It has been deployed in various contexts, from a social historian’s concern with the ‘public transcript’ of the theatre of the dominant classes, and its counter-theatre of resistance, to cultural and gender historians’ readings of ‘performativity,’ wherein the cultural fictions of collectively performed gender produce and [...]

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Lessons of the Past: Equity, Equality and Education

August 9, 2010

Some reflections on teaching history, equity and equality in the university classroom.

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Learning about Teaching Canadian Rural History at Black Creek Pioneer Village

June 21, 2010

This post re-caps the inaugural event in the Approaching the Past workshop series, which is co-sponsored by ActiveHistory.ca. It discusses what we did at the workshop, and hopefully helps people learn some teaching tips.

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Active History Announcements: June 13-19

June 12, 2010

The following upcoming events may be of interest to our readers (click on ‘continue reading’ below for full descriptions):

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Active History Announcements June 5 – 12

June 5, 2010

The following upcoming events may be of interest to our readers:NiCHE job posting, News from the CHA, CIHC history and heritage, Approaching the Past, PSAT General Meeting.

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