academic literacy, active learning, Active Online Reading, annotation, assessment, Classics, Collaboration, critical reading, digital literacy, digital reading, Dissemination, E-learning, history, Humanities, Late Antiquity, online reading, pedagogy, primary sources, Publications, QAA, reading, social annotation, students, Talis Elevate | Leave a Comment on Recent publication – Reading Online during Lockdown: Insights from History and Heritage

Recent publication – Reading Online during Lockdown: Insights from History and Heritage

Matt East, Leah Warriner-Wood and myself have recently had a chapter published in the edited book Agile Learning Environments amid Disruption, edited by Golam Jamil and Dawn A Morley. In it, we reflect on the approach that was adopted to teaching students to read primary sources through annotation across three iterations of a research-led undergraduateContinue reading Recent publication – Reading Online during Lockdown: Insights from History and Heritage

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Using YouTube to teach ancient identities

What do modern Goths have to do with ancient and medieval ones? In the Autumn semester last year, the students on my third year module in History at the University of Lincoln, The Goths: Barbarians through History?, took a closer look at this question. In the first half of the module we looked at the GothsContinue reading Using YouTube to teach ancient identities

Ancient History, Classics, history, Humanities, identity, Late Antiquity, Media, Medieval, Roman History, social media, YouTube | Leave a Comment on Teaching about identity in the ancient world using YouTube

Teaching about identity in the ancient world using YouTube

For more on this see the post I just made on the Changing Romans blog: GOTHS, ANCIENT AND MODERN. Jamie

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My first Xerte!

I made my first Xerte learning object in advance of the first meeting out the Making Digital History project team earlier this week. It proved relatively easy to set up and then play around with the Xerte tool, although there were some problems with inserting and displaying images and the exact layout of some slides.Continue reading My first Xerte!