The facts are simply too overwhelming to ignore. In practically every metric available for measuring quality of life and achievement in the United States, White people fare better than Black people, better than Latinos, better than people of color (POC) generally. A few examples: Black student achievement in secondary education is significantly lower than that […]
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I teach at Slippery Rock University You can’t break the Internet. If you don’t know how, Google it. Messing up is how you learn. If you do something online, no one will (necessarily) notice.
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Thanks to all those who came to my presentation at SRU’s Community Engagement Breakfast Series. Below are some tools to spark your thinking about digital tools for community engagement in your own classes! HistoryPin Assignment materials I would definitely recommend reading through the “Read Me!” file in there, as it contains my comments on lessons
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Today I was playing around with Knight Lab’s Juxtapose tool to illustrate changes over time in East Detroit. This was made using images from Google Maps and the DTE historic aerial photo collection housed at Wayne State University. I’m just dropping it here so I don’t lose it 🙂
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Today I’m offering a workshop through SRU’s Center for Teaching and Learning. Here are the slides for my talk! The Public Professor slides
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This fall, I am teaching a course in Digital History for the first time at Slippery Rock University. At the beginning of the course, I had my students complete a brief survey about their access, use, and familiarity with various forms of computer technology. (This is an idea I stole from several DH pros, including
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In recent days, Republican nominee Donald Trump has been making an effort to reach out to African-American voters, particularly those in major urban areas. The effort has been ham-fisted, at best and involved resurrecting an old argument about Democratic party policies and urban areas: namely, that because the Democratic party maintains a strong presence in
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A very depressing map, but a successfully embedded map nonetheless…this is a small sandbox experiment as part of my work at Doing DH 2016, an NEH Summer Institute at George Mason’s Center for History and New Media. Built with Carto from the Washington Post’s database of police shootings in 2015
This summer I’m fortunate enough to be attending Doing Digital History 2016, a summer institute sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In the first day, participants got a great introduction to the evolution of digital history through early chapters in Daniel Cohen & Roy Rosenzweig’s seminal text Digital History. We discussed the creation
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