Wednesday, May 03, 2006

History and New Media

Slatta's third question: how do we move the history profession away from manifestly unproductive teaching (sage on the stage and homogenized textbooks) and away from defining scholarship only as ink on paper?

Online Teaching and Learning

Slatta's second question: how do we challenge students and retain student interest and engagement both online and in the classroom?

Making our work available

At the recently concluded AAHC online conference, Richard Slatta asked 3 thought-provoking questions. Here is the first: how do we make our work widely available but also stay within the bounds of copyright and canons of professional publication?

Monday, May 01, 2006

Reference librarians and outreach?

Thanks to all for a wonderful conference! I was wondering if anyone had ideas on how librarians could increase outreach to students, in addition to creating web pages for classes. Thanks!
Sue

Saturday, April 29, 2006

Welcome!

Many of the participants in the AAHC's online conference wanted to 1) continue the conversation we began and 2) allow these conversations to be shared with a wider public. This collaborative blog will allow us to do both.