May 3

Topic: New Scholarly Publication Models and Crowdsourcing

Readings:

 

Bates, A.W. Teaching in a Digital Age: Guidelines for Teaching and Learning for a Digital Age.   Read Chapter 2, "The Nature of Knowledge and the Implication for Teaching." BC Open Text Books.   Available on-line at:  http://tinyurl.com/jymq6h2

Cordell, Ryan. "How to Start Tweeting (and Why You Might Want To)" in The Chronicle of Higher Education. August 11, 2010. Available on-line at:   http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/how-to-start-tweeting-and-why-you-might-want-to/26065

Sample, Mark. "A Framework for Teaching with Twitter," in The Chronicle of Higher Education. August 16, 2010.   Available on-line at:   http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/a-framework-for-teaching-with-twitter/26223

Saxton, Martha. "Wikipedia and Women's History," in Writing History in the Digital Age: A Born-Digital, Open-Review Volume. (Web-book Edition) Eds. Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2012). Available on-line at:  http://tinyurl.com/hhm3ez2

Sheets, Kevin B. "Wiki in the History Classroom," in Perspectives on History.  May 2009.   Available on-line at:  http://tinyurl.com/z3y8tp9

Sikarskie, Amanda Grace. "Citizen Scholars: Facebook and the Co creation of Knowledge," in Writing History in the Digital Age: A Born-Digital, Open-Review Volume. (Web-book Edition) Eds. Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2012). Available on-line at: http://tinyurl.com/h766cve

Activities

Instructors: Matt Clare and Giulia Forsyth

Morning (9-12)

Introduction

Seminar: Discussion of Readings

Hands-on Session: Twitter and Office 365

 

Afternoon (1-4)

Hands on Session: Media Wiki, Wikipedia and StoryMap

Resources:

Matt Clare and Giulia Forsythe PowerPoint Slides

•  http://bit.ly/1rYhpMa

 

Further Readings:

Konieczny, Piotr, "Wikis and Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool:  Five years later," at First Monday 17 (9).  September 3, 2012. Available on -line at:  http://firstmonday.org/article/view/3583/3313

Koh, Adeline. "Teaching with Wikipedia? The Wiki Education Foundation Wants to Help!," at The Chronicle of Higher Education.  March 12, 2015.  Available on-line at:  http://tinyurl.com/gpauz6k

• Sample, Mark. "Practical Advice for Teaching with Twitter," at The Chronicle of Higher Education.  August 25, 2010.  Available on-line at:  http://tinyurl.com/4xrfelh

Koh, Adeline, "Livetweeting Classes: Some Suggested Guidelines," at The Chronicle of Higher Education.  January 28, 2014.  Available on-line at: http://tinyurl.com/j5k5v2b

Koh, Adeline, "Live-Tweeting Assignments: To Use or Not to Use?," at The Chronicle of Higher Education.  January 28, 2015.  Available on-line at:  http://tinyurl.com/hu83g5e

"Teaching with Tumblr and StoryMapJS," at HistoryBlogger. December 26, 2014. Available on-line at:   http://historyblogger.net/tag/storymapjs/

Wolff, Robert S. "The Historian's Craft, Popular Memory, and Wikipedia," in Writing History in the Digital Age: A Born-Digital, Open-Review Volume. (Web-book Edition) Eds. Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2012). Available on-line at: http://tinyurl.com/z8pc54l

•  [StoryMap Example] "The French Intervention in Mexico," Available on-line at:  http://tinyurl.com/jaddueq