On Wednesday, I am co-presenting at May Symposium, an annual faculty development event, to help colleagues “get started” with digital technologies in the humanities and social sciences. Our session, organized by Chris Arndt, will feature hands-on opportunities to play with Google Drive, WordPress, and Google Earth. Many people on our campus are dabbling with digital projects, but others doubt the pedagogical effectiveness of certain applications or worry about the investment of time and energy needed. Our goal is to allay some of these concerns by demonstrating and discussing how we have successfully used digital technologies in our own classes. Other presenters are: Chris Arndt, Kevin Hegg, Andrew Witmer, and Kevin Borg.

Here are some links I will be using in my portion of the session:
http://people.jmu.edu/mulroomm/meghome/ (my old antiquated site from the early 2000s) and  http://sites.jmu.edu/mad70s/ (my new class project). Continue reading →