I recently led a session at the City of Calgary Teachers’ Convention Association meeting here at Mount Royal University titled “Teaching Digital History Skills”. The purpose of this session was to explore some of the key digital tools and technologies used for history research, analysis, communication, and teaching at the […]
History Tech Tips
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Historians should be control freaks when it comes to data storage. We are data gatherers who scrape archives for any content relevant to our particular research projects. For instance, when I was last at the city archives in Montreal, I asked the archivist for access to the Montreal public market […]
Digital and online-based technologies have changed the historian’s craft. Within the past two decades, these technologies have enhanced our abilities to research, analyze, communicate, and teach history. While the current generation of students is commonly referred to as “digital natives” or the “net generation” the assumption that young people are […]
We’re back to school this week and I’ve started teaching my first classes for the Fall 2010 semester at Mount Royal University. MRU is now the sixth university where I have been an instructor and with each new university comes a new flavour of online course management software. I’ve seen […]
From time to time I find myself gushing over a new digital tool that I’ve recently discovered which helps me with some of the day to day activities of a historian. Rather than quietly enjoying the benefits of these technologies alone I thought I would share and review them here […]