Category Archives: Student research

Twittering Students – Using Twitter in Teaching Literature

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Muzna Rahman

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 →

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Dr Mark Horowitz visits the University of Lincoln to talk about Making Digital History

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Diane Ranyard

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 →

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Curate history (and your other interests…) on the web – part 2

Posted on August 4, 2013 by Jamie Wood

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 →

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Neo-classicism in the HE classroom, 13th June 2013

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Jamie Wood

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 →

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