Digital Flashback A different take on classroom engagement

2015 THATCamp Florida

Julian C. Chambliss

Department of History

Rollins College

Context: Always Connected

A

Mediated

Generatio

n

Exploring History Using Primary

Sources

Liberal Arts in the 21st

Century

How can we re-orient

General Education for the

21st Century?

What is the role for

technology in education?

Deeper Engagement

with Digital Pedagogy.

EXAMPLE

EXAMPLE: COLLOBRATIVE

DIGITAL PEDAGOGICAL

PROJECTS

What could we do with Social Media within a framework of collecting

and presenting history in a class project?

WINTER PARK’S

HISTORY OFFERS

COMPLEX

NARRATIVES

TO SERVE AS A

FOCAL POINT.

THE CASE OF HANNIBAL SQUARE

CLASSIC QUESTIONS

OF POST-

RECONSTRUCTION

AMERICA DEFINE

HANNIBAL SQUARE’S

RELATIONSHIP TO

WINTER PARK.

Gus C. Hendersen

RE-TELLING THE

HANNIBAL SQUARE

STORY OPENS THE

DOOR TO

FORGOTTEN ACTORS.

The assignment ask students

to use social media posts

explore social and political

circumstances linked to the

decision to “detach” Hannibal

Square from the town of Winter

Park in 1892.

Assignment

Establish the language

https://storify.com/jchambliss1/decade-of-decision-1890s-digital-flashback

THE STUDENTS

DEMONSTRATED

GREATER

UNDERSTANDING OF

COMMUNITY, STATE, AND

NATIONAL HISTORY.

THANK YOU

Dr. Julian C. Chambliss

Email: jchambliss@rollins.edu

Twitter: @JulianChambliss

www.julianchambliss.com