American Historical Association

The AHA Guide to Teaching and Learning with New Media

by John McClymer

 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

From Scarcity to Abundance: A Frame for the Profession’s Conversation about Teaching and Learning with Online Resources

• Introduction
• Scarcity
• Pedagogies of Scarcity vs. the History Student’s Need for Cognitive Flexibility
• Inauthentic Assignments and Student Coping
  
  

Abundance

• Using the Web to Change the Way Students Read
  
  

Multiple Points of Entry

Cognitive Flexibility

Making Mental Links across Time and among Diverse Materials

Conclusion

Western Civ. Examples

Some Very Detailed Examples

• Renaissance Humanism: Machiavelli and More
• Renaissance Art: Vasari's Lives of the Artists
• Conquest of Mexico
• Life at Versailles in the Reign of Louis XIV
• Age of Reason
• The Five Points Neighborhood and the New York City Draft Riots
• The Crisis at Fort Sumter
  
• Dramas of Haymarket
• World War I
  
• The Seattle General Strike and the “Great Red Scare”
• Living through the Great Depression
• A New Domesticity and a New Feminism
  
  

Some Quick Starts into Some Crucial Questions

• How Do I Find the Good Stuff?
  
• Helping Students Use Bibliographic Tools
• Using E-Mail, Blogs, Bulletin Boards
  
  

Some Macro-Level Issues Concerning Teaching

• A Conversation with Richard E. Bond

 

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