The Wired West:
Teaching Using Technology
Teaching Using Technology
Some thoughts about teaching with technology:
I. Explaining the technology to students
- A. CSI-CUNY History Department Web Tutorial
- http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/csitutor.html
- B. Guidelines for Evaluating a Website
- http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/csitutor.html#eval
II. Using the technology to serve the ways you are already teaching
- A. Using existing websites as libraries
- 1. Westweb
- http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/
- B. Making your own websites with specific goals in mind
- 1. Making it available at various technology levels
- 2. Storing information for students
- a. The Professor's Homepage
- http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/
- b. The Course Homepage
- http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/502/
III. Some examples of teaching projects:
- A. Using the "Virtual Slideshow"
- 1. The Colonial Family
- www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/colfam.html
- B. Using hypertext to to teach textual analysis
- 1. Liberty Rhetoric
- www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/americanstudies/lavender/liberty.html
- a. Texts and student responsibilities
- www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/americanstudies/lavender/quesorig.html
- b. Textual Analysis
- www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/americanstudies/lavender/2decs.html
- C. Student Collaborative Publishing
- 1. True Women/New Women
- www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/386/