Jeff McClurken, associate professor of history, wrote “A Report from EduCon 2.4” for the ProfHacker blog on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s website. In the post, he discusses his takeaways from the recent EduCon 2.4 conference and explains the parallels between the issues facing higher education and K-12 education.
Jeff McClurken Presents at National History Conference
Jeff McClurken, associate professor of history, presented his paper “Teaching with Social Media” during the Digital Humanities workshop at the 126th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago.
He also ran a pre-conference workshop, “So, You Want to Teach a Digital History Class?” at the AHA.
Jeff McClurken to Moderate Civil War Program
Jeff McClurken, associate professor of history, will moderate the Years of Anguish Sesquicentennial speakers’ forum on Saturday, Nov. 12. The forum, held in George Washington Hall’s Dodd Auditorium from 1 to 5 p.m., will feature acclaimed historians Gary Gallagher and Peter Carmichael.
The Fredericksburg Area Museum and Cultural Center, the National Park Service and the University of Mary Washington are sponsoring the program, which is free and open to the public. A book signing will follow the presentations in the Dodd Auditorium Foyer.
Gary Gallagher, the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia, will present the lecture, “Devoted to Union.”
Peter Carmichael, director of the Civil War Institute and Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies at Gettysburg College, will explore how the generation of 1861 understood the war and why they fought.
Pre-registration is not required, but is requested. Register on-line at www.famcc.org, or 540-371-3037 ext. 400.
“Years of Anguish” Civil War Program
The second program in the Years of Anguish Sesquicentennial speakers’ forum will take place on Saturday, November 12 from 1 to 5 p.m. The forum, held in George Washington Hall’s Dodd Auditorium, will feature acclaimed historians Gary Gallagher and Peter Carmichael. Jeff McClurken, associate professor of history, will moderate.
Peter Carmichael
The Fredericksburg Area Museum and Cultural Center, the National Park Service and the University of Mary Washington are sponsoring the program, which is free and open to the public. A book signing will follow the presentations in the Dodd Auditorium Foyer.
Gary Gallagher
Gary Gallagher, the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia, will present the lecture, “Devoted to Union.”
Peter Carmichael, director of the Civil War Institute and Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies at Gettysburg College, will explore how the generation of 1861 understood the war and why they fought.
Pre-registration is not required, but is requested. Register on-line at www.famcc.org, or 540-371-3037 ext. 400.
Two UMW Faculty Members Contribute to Online Volume
Jim Groom, instructional technology specialist, and Jeff McClurken, associate professor of history and American studies, contributed chapters to “Hacking the Academy, The Edited Volume.” The volume, published online through an open-access license, will be available in print next year.
Groom co-wrote the chapter, “Voices: Learning Management Systems.”
McClurken co-wrote the chapter, “Digital Literacy and the Undergraduate Curriculum.”
For more information about the project, visit http://www.digitalculture.org/hacking-the-academy/.
Jeffrey McClurken to Discuss Civil War Families on Public Radio Show
University of Mary Washington Associate Professor and Chair of History and American Studies Jeffrey McClurken will discuss how Confederate veteran families adjusted to life in the postwar South during an interview on the “With Good Reason” public radio program beginning Saturday, August 20.
The interview can be heard on August 20 at 4:30 p.m. on WCVE 88.9 FM and on Monday, August 22 at 12:30 a.m. on WAMU 88.5 FM. The segment, “Confederate Outlaw,” is expected to be available online beginning the week of the show at http://withgoodreasonradio.org/2011/08/confederate-outlaw.
Jeffrey McClurken to Discuss Civil War Families on Public Radio Show
University of Mary Washington Associate Professor and Chair of History and American Studies Jeffrey McClurken will discuss how Confederate veteran families adjusted to life in the postwar South during an interview on the “With Good Reason” public radio program beginning Saturday, August 20.
The interview can be heard on August 20 at 4:30 p.m. on WCVE 88.9 FM and on Monday, August 22 at 12:30 a.m. on WAMU 88.5 FM. The segment, “Confederate Outlaw,” is expected to be available online beginning the week of the show at http://withgoodreasonradio.org/2011/08/confederate-outlaw.
Jeffrey W. McClurken
Jeff McClurken, chair and associate professor of history and American studies, had the article “Teaching and Learning with Omeka: Discomfort, Play, and Creating Public, Online, Digital Collections” published in the collection “Learning through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy.”
The essay was released in electronic form at http://learningthroughdigitalmedia.net. In addition, it was issued in published form by The New School as part of Mobility Shifts, a project supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
The article, which discusses the value of discomfort and open-source tools in teaching digital history, features a number of digital history projects by UMW students.
Read the article in its entirety.
Jeffrey McClurken
Jeffrey McClurken, associate professor and chair of history and American studies, co-organized, with the Fredericksburg Area Museum and the National Park Service, and moderated a speakers’ forum on secession—the local kickoff event of the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War. About 600 people attended the November event, which was combined with a tour of historic Brompton’s grounds: http://www.famcc.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&view=details&id=77:years-of-anguish-lecture-series
McClurken co-organized the Archiving Social Media workshop held at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in October. A number of UMW faculty and staff participated. Read about the workshop at http://archivingsocialmedia.org.
McClurken gave the keynote address, “Teaching and Learning with Student-Generated, Online, Creative and Public New Media,” at James Madison University’s Teaching and Learning with Technology conference in October. Visit http://sites.jmu.edu/tlt2010/conference-schedule/keynote-speech/
McClurken continues to write for the ProfHacker column in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Check out his posts at http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/author/jmcclurken.
McClurken and Tim O’Donnell, associate professor of communication, used TED talks in their freshman seminar in fall 2009, and the magazine FAST COMPANY took note in the recent article at http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/148/how-ted-became-the-new-harvard.html?page=0,2