One of my very first full-time teaching positions was in New York City, in a high school with a high proportion of first and second generation immigrant students. Some of our favorite class activities were sharing the stories and food of our respective cultures, the things that made us unique and brought us together, so …
If/Then
Like so many Americans, I jumped on the podcast bandwagon with season one of the Serial podcast back in 2014, and I haven’t looked back. While I’m cleaning my apartment or making dinner or walking to class, I can multi-task by listening to a podcast and feel like I’ve gotten more accomplished than the drudgery …
Exploring Texts with Digital Tools
As tomorrow is Halloween, this week's blog is exploring Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the horrifying tale of a woman who slowly goes insane under the “rest cure” prescribed by her doctor and enforced by her husband. As a short story that I love to teach, I wanted to examine if digital …
Mundelein and Loyola Speak Out: Social Activism in Student Publications (1967-2018)
With their Jesuit affiliation, social justice has been at the forefront of the missions of both Loyola University and Mundelein College. With the approach of the 1960s, however, students and faculty felt particularly empowered to make their voices heard— at their home institutions, in their communities, and around the world. In this post, we’ll look …
How Can Virtual Reality Engage with Historical Narrative?
In continuing our discussion of digital storytelling, this week I reviewed two tours currently available as part of the Chicago ØØ Project, a collaborative venture made available to us, in part, through the Chicago History Museum. The first, Chicago ØØ: St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, uses primary source documents and photographs to create an immersive virtual reality …
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Chicago 1981
Curious about how art and consumer culture collide? Missing the "me" era? Then check out my collection of photos highlighting The Windy City in 1981.
Digital Storytelling
Whether it’s Race to the Top or Common Core or Whatever Comes Next, curriculum standards at all levels will continue to require us to use technology in interesting and innovative ways in our classroom environments. But what exactly does that look like? How do we facilitate students’ critical perspectives of both content and process? How …
That’s so meta…
How can we utilize metadata standards in our teaching and learning practice?
Read any good books lately?
Many of us have a love/hate relationship with social media. On the one hand, it allows us to keep in touch with a diaspora of friends and family, network for current and future jobs, and connect with communities that, just 30 years ago, would have been out of reach. On the other hand, it provides …
Teaching and Learning on the History Web
When you think of "history," are your first thoughts of wars and white men and dates you could never remember for Mr. Slack’s midterm? For so many, “history” evokes memories of watching the clock in their high school class or memorizing seemingly disconnected bits of information that they would be tested on later. But what …
