Two-fer Tuesday.
TFW two pieces you had a hand in get published one the same day.
Get your side hustle off.
I've been streaming a lot of Simpsons with my son lately. Backwards. Since I quit watching the show regularly sometime in the late-90s, this was the best way that we…
More mistakes from my first semester teaching the US History survey online.
My first semester as an online instructor is almost over. Who knows where the time goes? Curating a respectable online survey course experience comes with a lot of responsibility. In…
My favorite mistake.
When I decided to teach online for the first time this semester, I was determined to throw out my old survey class and rebuild a new one from the…
“I don’t need your civil war.”
All us historians let out a loud sigh when we read that story about Republican Senator Ron Johnson wanting to replace us all with Ken Burns videos. It's an incredibly…
Think different.
I've been an Apple user since the early-1980s. I don't think I qualify as a fanatic since I haven't bought anywhere near everything the company ever put out. Heck, I…
Repeat after me: “You are an expert in your own teaching!”
via GIPHY So I have an announcement: Next year I will be the faculty fellow at CSU-Pueblo's Center for Teaching and Learning. First you go for the free food. Next…
How do you build a respectable all-online US History survey class?, Part II.
Part I is here. So I'm well into writing my all-online US History survey course for this fall now. Oddly enough, after having spent so much time planning how I…
History professors and technology: Why can’t we be friends?
A few days ago, blogger and podcaster extraordinaire John Fea artfully summarized an AHA Perspectives piece about why the number of history majors has dropped nationwide: 1. The 2008 recession…
What happens if you’re the asshole?
There 's a Chronicle article from last week that has been stuck in my craw ever since I read it. You may have read it when it was free for…
