Social Media and Waterboarding
I couple of weeks ago on this blog, I shared a tweet by Colin Morris, a student at Kent State University in …
Why Use Clickers?
I just had to share this tweet I saw a few weeks ago. @colinmorris: 44% OF MY U.S. HISTORY CLASS THINKS WATERBOARDING …
Cell Phones as Clickers on the World’s Technology Podcast
Note: I’ve had a couple of problems with this blog recently–the RSS feed stopped working and I haven’t had any time to …
More Cryptography Questions
Here are a couple more clicker questions I tried out in my cryptography class recently. “Cryptography was the decisive factor in the …
One-Best-Answer Questions
You may have noticed I haven’t been blogging as frequently this summer. That due, in part, to the fact that I’m teaching …
Why Clickers?
I just discovered a blog post by Ann M. Little, a historian at Colorado State University, expressing a fair amount of skepticism …
Backchannel via Twitter
Monica Rankin has received some attention for her use of Twitter in the introductory history course she taught this spring at the …
Ethical Questions in a History Class
I usually focus on the use of classroom response systems at the university level here on this blog, but I have to …
Crowdsourcing in the Classroom?
A couple of months ago, I shared a few ideas for applying the idea of “crowdsourcing” in the classroom. Last month, Dan …