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What challenges do we face as history educators presenting the past in the digital world? The modern day digital landscape has undoubtedly created more teaching and learning opportunities for a wider global audience, as well as having democratized who has access to scholarly historical information and research. Without this very digital landscape, our job as…

This week for my final project I have begun to work on entering the information about the events I am going to include in my timeline into a google spreadsheet so that it can be integrated into the timeline software I am using. I have chosen to use timeline JS for my project software since…

At this point, I have a clear picture of what I want my final project to include, how I want it to function, and what I want the finished project to look like. So far, I have gathered most of the examples that I want to use in my timeline, and now I am mostly…

Metadata: Title- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Year- 2003 Producer/Director- Peter Weir Accessed via Amazon Prime Video Themes One of the major themes which this film addresses is the harsh and brutal reality which sailors of the napoleonic era often faced while at sea, and the ways they justified their own…

As someone who considers themselves both an ultimate history and film buff, there is no doubt in my mind that cinema would contribute to how I might teach history to others. Historians often get a bad rap for being poor movie watching companions because of our tendency to point out inaccuracies or anachronisms, especially when…

For my final project I have begun looking into some books I have read about the history of First World War origins, as well as discovering some new works on the subject I have not yet read. Since I have changed my focus slightly towards the personal conflicts between European leaders in the early 19th…

There are many elements of historical thinking which have been taught in our school’s curriculum throughout the past century and remain there to this day, however, not all of these are actually beneficial when it comes to students understanding of, or their ability to learn about the past. For instance, a far greater emphasis has…

for my final project, I want to attempt to demystify the origins of the First World War, an event of the utmost significance but one which has been largely overlooked by most school curriculums. The primary audience of this project is high school students, and My goal would be to have them walk away from…

Historical thinking is a way of assessing historical information and questioning the past in order to uncover the unseen forces and hidden influences that exist within essentially every historical narrative we are familiar with today. One of the key concepts of this idea are the different parts of historical knowledge. The first is substantive knowledge,…

This course has not only introduced me to a number of valuable digital history projects and resources covering a wide variety of topics, but has also given me invaluable technological skills that I will no doubt be taking with me into my own career. I have learned that the ability to create a website is…