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The end of front-row bias
The affordance of the physical classroom dictates that there must be a front row. No matter what type of student you are, on day 1 of class, depending on how early you get there, your place in the...
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How to make 6-figures teaching online
This is the promise of this course on Udemy. The course usually costs $299, it’s on sale until this Friday for $19! That’s a 93% discount for those of you paying attention! I am tempted to take the...
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The Historian’s Workshop is online – enroll now – classes start January 5th!
We are less than 2 months away from the Winter quarter, and enrollments are open at UCR and across the UC campuses for the online version of History 99W. The course is “The Historian’s Workshop”, an...
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D-day minus 6
New Year’s eve Shmew Years eve… Between today and the beginning of the new online class on January 5th I have 1 proposal due, 1 talk to give, 60 conference panels to review, and 2 cross-continental...
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April 2014 redux: an interview, and a sartorial lesson
A while ago I gave a talk in Mexico City. As part of that very engaging day, I was interviewed by my host, Gustavo del Angel, in the library of the CIDE, one of Mexico’s best academic and research...
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Teaching online with Jorge Luis Borges
This week, students in my online class learnt about the fallibility of maps and cartographers, who as one astute student said, contributed to the “zombiefication of history”. The mis-reading of primary...
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Modeling manners online
I have been teaching online over the last couple of years, and the classes are getting bigger. This means – more students, more TAs, more google hangouts, more interaction. In this burgeoning...
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karma is a b_ _ _ h
Allow me to share a cautionary tale, which will be particularly relevant to anyone who has 150+ millennials in an online class. One of the assignments in the first week of class included a (I thought)...
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The agony and the ecstasy of discussion boards
A long time ago, I tried to use the Blackboard discussion board. I quickly decided I would rather push needles into my eyes than do that again. The format was stiff, the threads unwieldy and in the...
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The agony and the ecstasy of discussion boards, redux
My last post was a rant exploration of the highs and lows of using discussion boards like Piazza in a large online class. Much of my frustration interest came from this Spring quarter’s experience, in...
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Why statistics are great – and also heartbreaking
We’ve all heard that statistics lie. But statistics also, and more often than not, reveal the truth behind the talk. In the case explored in the video below (from a few months ago), statistics reveal...
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Syllabus for Hist 19WV: if you don’t have access to the course site yet bc...
Hist19WV: The historian’s workshop – how to tell fact from fiction using the clues of history (also – Zombies!) Prof. Juliette Levy Contact me via email or google hangout, skype twitter...
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posters for a presentation on Piazza I did not give
But if you are new to the Piazza discussion boards, maybe this’ll help and here’s the pdf if you want to print this out: Piazza do’s& piazza dont’s
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Immigration and the American dream – a class assignment using the short film...
Last week I screened the film Ellis in my class. The film was also screened in the Rivera and Orbach libraries on campus for 2 hours – running in a loop in the lobbies of each library. If you have an...
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It’s the end of the term, and we know it: initial results on the latest...
The 163 students in History 19WV submitted their final paper last night. You did it guys! Good luck on finals and enjoy your break! And thanks for filling out the end-of-term survey about the class....
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Doing DH and stuff in Mexico City
Last week I flew to amazing Mexico City to speak about digital archiving and economic history at the Colegio de México. It is always great to reunite with old friends and colleagues like Aurora Gomez...
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DH grad seminar – day 1: on gender bias in games and history
There are 11 of us in the class (including me). We started the class by playing Timeline (because, you know, we are historians). Timeline is a very simple card game in which each player has to organize...
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Moving Matters in the Digital Age
I am moving matters – literally – and starting to publish via Medium. Who knows – that may be where we all end up writing, eventually. So go, have a look. Click on the link below: “Moving Matters in...
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well, actually… DH seminar 10 weeks in.
It’s week 10. So much for weekly updates on the DH seminar. In my defense, it’s been one heck of a hectic quarter. But let me catch you up. 9 students, all women, learnt about data (what it is and what...
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The sexist search engine
Last week I was preparing a talk about instructional technology in the modern university and I wanted to illustrate how IT can make a large lecture hall feel like a small seminar. I wanted to create...
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