Category Archives: web2.0

Twittering Students – Using Twitter in Teaching Literature

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Muzna Rahman

I have been experimenting with using Twitter in my teaching this term at the University of Lincoln, on two separate American studies modules, level one and two respectively. The way this worked was relatively straightforward: I set up individual Twitter … Continue reading →

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Making Digital History publications from Lincoln

Posted on May 9, 2015 by Jamie Wood

Over the past few months we have published two articles in edited collections on the digital history teaching that we’ve been doing at Lincoln over the past couple of years: Making Medieval History digitally at the University of Lincoln (J. Wood … Continue reading →

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Project reports submitted to HEA and JISC

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Jamie Wood

I’ve spent a few days writing and revising the final reports for the following e-learning projects which we’ve been involved in over the past year: Making Digital History, funded by the HEA/JISC Digital Literacies in the Disciplines funding programme (report here); T&L: … Continue reading →

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2 case studies submitted to the HEA’s Flexible pedagogies project

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Jamie Wood

We’ve just submitted two case studies to the HEA’s Flexible pedagogies: preparing for the future project, which aims to identify “pedagogies that are going to empower student learning, offering increased choice, and above all, facilitate high quality provision.” We submitted … Continue reading →

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Digital Modelling of the Ancient Roman World

Posted on November 23, 2013 by Jamie Wood

Last week we hosted Dr Matthew Nicholls of the department of Classics at the University of Reading. He came to talk as part of our HEA-funded Making Digital History project to an audience of historians of all periods about digital … Continue reading →

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