Twitter in the Classroom
This post discusses the potential uses of Twitter in the classroom, from the position of somebody who was once a skeptic.
Tag Archives: Teaching History
Step by Step: Zotero
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.
Making History More Than Your Story
A discussion of some ways teachers can keep history relevant for students.
Laptops in the Classroom
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.
Echoes and Reflections: A Multimedia Curriculum on the Holocaust
Resources for teaching about the Holocaust and genocide.
Summary of Teaching History in Diverse Venues
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.
‘All the world’s a stage’: Performance in the Classroom
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 reinforce prevailing notions of normalcy. … Read more »
Lessons of the Past: Equity, Equality and Education
Some reflections on teaching history, equity and equality in the university classroom.
Learning about Teaching Canadian Rural History at Black Creek Pioneer Village
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.
Active History Announcements: June 13-19
The following upcoming events may be of interest to our readers (click on ‘continue reading’ below for full descriptions):