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Category Archives: Student research
Pandemic Pedagogy – Beyond essays and exams: changing the rules of the assessment game
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
Twittering Students – Using Twitter in Teaching Literature
I have been experimenting with using Twitter in my teaching this term at the University of Lincoln, on two separate American studies modules, level one and two respectively. The way this worked was relatively straightforward: I set up individual Twitter … Continue reading
Posted in Humanities, Learning objects, Lincoln, Media, social media, student as producer, Student research, Teacher Education, web2.0
Tagged American Studies, Literature, Twitter
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Dr Mark Horowitz visits the University of Lincoln to talk about Making Digital History
We were lucky enough to have Dr Mark Horowitz from the University of Illinois, Chicago visit us last week (22nd and 23rd October 2013) to give three presentations to History students at the University of Lincoln; partly funded by the … Continue reading
Curate history (and your other interests…) on the web – part 2
In an earlier post I talked about Scoop.it, a site for bringing together content from different websites (blogs, YouTube, regular webpages, RSS feeds) and ‘curating’ it. Over the past few days I’ve been playing around with a similar service called … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, digital literacy, E-learning, feed reader, Feedly, RSS, Student research, web2.0
Tagged collaboration, digital literacy, e-learning, feedly, RSS, social media, web2.0
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Neo-classicism in the HE classroom, 13th June 2013
I attended a really excellent HEA event at the University of Roehampton last week, Neo-classicism in the HE classroom, on the reception of classical culture in eighteenth century England. Dr Alannah Tomkins, of Keele University, ran a really useful workshop … Continue reading
