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/