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Category Archives: Medieval
An interview with Charles West – Using Wikipedia to Teach Medieval History and Digital Literacy
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
International Visiting Fellowship in Medieval History at UoL
The University of Lincoln is pleased to offer a non‐stipendiary Visiting Fellowship in Medieval History. Applications are invited from international scholars specializing in medieval history. It is anticipated that the Fellowship will be suitable for scholars who wish to have … Continue reading
Posted in Fellowships, history, Medieval
Tagged fellowship, history, medieval history
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Teaching about identity in the ancient world using YouTube
For more on this see the post I just made on the Changing Romans blog: GOTHS, ANCIENT AND MODERN. Jamie
Posted in Ancient History, Classics, history, Humanities, identity, Late Antiquity, Media, Medieval, Roman History, social media, YouTube
Tagged e-learning, history, late antiquity, Roman Empire, social media, videos, YouTube
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Xerte workshops completed
We (Antonella, I and the student ambassadors) just completed training over 100 first year students on our East meets West module in the use of Xerte. They will be using the tool in group projects for source analysis assignments. It … Continue reading
Posted in digital literacy, E-learning, HEA, Higher Education Academy, history, Humanities, Learning objects, Making Digital History, Medieval, Xerte
Tagged digital literacy, e-learning, East meets West, HEA, Higher Education Academy, history, learning objects, online learning, training, workshops, Xerte
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Getting started with Xerte
Xerte is a pilot tool to create online learning objects to teach others about historical topics. It offers numerous and diverse potentials, which include embedding audio and video tracks; creating interactive maps; zooming in and out an image and linking … Continue reading
