Articles Posted in the " History " Category

  • The Twitter Experiment: University of Dallas

    The Twitter Experiment: University of Dallas

    An interesting experiment in using Twitter with a class of 50 history students. The best comment on the YouTube video: “Education isn’t a product/service like milk or car repair. What you are paying for is the opportunity to apprentice with someone who knows a lot more than you. What you get out of it depends [...]


  • Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom

    Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom

    Full Title: Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom: How online social networking will transform your life, work and world Author: Matthew Fraser & Soumitra Dutta Publisher: Wiley Publishing Date: 2009 (corrections) “MySpace. Facebook. YouTube. Wikipedia. Twitter. Social networking sites are a global phenomenon boasting hundreds of millions of members. Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom is the first [...]


  • Worlde: Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

    Worlde: Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

    OK, Tuesday morning, I will be bringing my class to order for “20th Century British History”, and in looking to experiment with some of those ideas for using online tools, and having recently found Wordle (I know, a bit late in the day), I thought this had a great potential for turning some great wordy [...]


  • Visual Image Course (1999-2002)

    I decided to make a basic site available to the students on the Visual Image Course that I teach at King Alfred’s College, Winchester. The site was to cover internet resources, a more general bibliography, duplicate the material available in a handout, and provide example exam answers for those who rarely decided to attend revision sessions! [...]