Why I Teach
Let’s get something clear from the start: I love teaching. I love teaching history. I love teaching students at a school that prioritizes teaching. I love walking in to a classroom with historical...
View ArticleOn Not Banning Laptops in the Classroom
This post has been percolating for a while as a series of op-ed pieces and studies announcing that handwriting is better for learning or that laptops or other devices are ineffective or that tech...
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Reflecting on Digital History (Pandemic Edition) through Memes
I asked the students in HIST428–Adventures in Digital History to close out the semester with a meme reflecting on the semester in general or the class in particular. From Hunter D. From Dennis G. Two...
View ArticleOn Teaching and Administrating and Grieving and Celebrating
I started this post nearly six weeks ago, and couldn’t finish it. I’ve thought about it a number of times since then. But as we reach the night before what would have been UMW’s commencement...
View ArticleSummertime mantra, or remembering why we do what we do
As we get close to a month away from classes starting again at UMW, I am working (as I often do in this months long in-between space of spring and fall classes) to hold on to those critical...
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