Author Archives: Jamie Wood

An interview with Katherine Fennelly – Digital Mapping of the 18th and 19th-century British Landscape

Posted on March 11, 2021 by Jamie Wood

Unfortunately, it’s taken me a while to get the second interview in this series written up. In any case, I’m very please to be able to share my discussions with Dr Katherine Fennelly, an historical archaeologist at the University of … Continue reading →

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An interview with Charles West – Using Wikipedia to Teach Medieval History and Digital Literacy

Posted on December 4, 2020 by Jamie Wood

The Making Digital History project is particularly concerned with approaches to teaching history online that involve students in constructing things for themselves (including their own knowledge and understanding via more ‘traditional’ text-based approaches) in digital spaces and sharing the results … Continue reading →

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Pandemic Pedagogy – Beyond essays and exams: changing the rules of the assessment game

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Jamie Wood

This post is part of History UK’s Pandemic Pedagogy project. For more about the initiative, follow HUK’s blog and Twitter feed. Assessment, carrots and sticks ‘Assessment is an integral part of instruction, as it determines whether or not the goals … Continue reading →

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Pandemic Pedagogy – Redesigning for online teaching, or Why learning objectives aren’t a waste of time

Posted on June 24, 2020 by Jamie Wood

This post is part of History UK’s Pandemic Pedagogy project. For more about the initiative, follow HUK’s blog and Twitter feed. In this post I want to spend a little bit of time thinking in quite general terms about the … Continue reading →

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Reflections on a survey of History students’ experiences of lockdown learning

Posted on June 19, 2020 by Jamie Wood

Last month, alongside our survey of staff experiences of teaching during lockdown, we surveyed UG and PGT students in the School of History and Heritage at the University of Lincoln. I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago in History … Continue reading →

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