by Dylan Ruediger | Nov 9, 2014 | digital humanities, SIF Projects
This weekend, the South Atlantic Modern Language Association is coming to Buckhead, and the Hoccleve Archive team will be there. The last couple of weeks have been spent getting ready for what, for us at least, is the first public roll-out of our work. For me, this...
by Dylan Ruediger | Nov 3, 2014 | instructional videos, pedagogy, SIF Projects
With a lot of help from Ameer, I am finally reaching the point where I can make videos more or less on my own. As I have been making them, I have been thinking about how educationally useful the experience of making the videos is. The countless decisions about what...
by Dylan Ruediger | Oct 26, 2014 | pedagogy
This afternoon I went to a very interesting talk by Rich Halverson of the University of Wisconsin, which raised two major issues, one about the SIF program in general, and the other about one of my SIF projects, the American History Video project. To keep the post to...
by Dylan Ruediger | Oct 20, 2014 | digital humanities, SIF Projects
There has been a lot of activity over the Hoccleve Archives projects over the last few weeks, mostly relating to a series of computer files known as the HOCCLEX files. These files, which date from the 1980’s, were originally developed by a team of researchers,...
by Dylan Ruediger | Oct 12, 2014 | instructional videos, pedagogy
Late last week, I observed a session, devoted to the topic of secession, of the hybrid U.S. history survey. It made me more than a little nostalgic for the classroom, in all its gritty and chaotic glory. And, it reminded me of the madness that is the one-semester U.S....
