Category: Teaching

• Respect in the digital age

  “I think it demonstrates a real lack of respect for students…How can students trust that someone is going to have their best interests in mind and be trying to help them in that course if they are making fun of them behind their back?” — Hans Rollman, graduate student at York University While perhaps not…

  Brian Sarnacki

  April 11, 2011

  Academia, Digital Humanities, Teaching

  grad school, Social Networks, teaching

• The Branded Professor

  Insidehigered.com: As a relatively new tenure-track professor in journalism and media, I teach students skills and critical thinking for a profession that is in a state of redefinition. One of the ways journalism educators are trying to increase their students’ job opportunities is by encouraging them to develop a “personal brand,” through which they establish…

  Brian Sarnacki

  April 10, 2011

  Teaching

  academia, blogging, facebook, grad school, Social Networks, twitter

• A Few of My Favorite Things

  With some fudging on how many items can be in a “top five”, here are my top six “top five” lists (in no particular order): 1. Top Five History Books (Listed in the order in which I read them) 1. Rats, Lice & History: The book that really made historical thinking click for me in…

  Brian Sarnacki

  March 7, 2011

  Academia, Digital Humanities, Teaching

  dh projects, digital history, digital humanities, history, macro, microhistory, teaching

• Flash Seminars

  Washington Post: [Laura] Nelson and her friends would seek out their favorite professors. Faculty would choose topics, assign any readings and set enrollment limits. Students would find teaching space. She thought about approaching university leaders for approval, but she couldn’t think of anything in her plan that required approval. “It’s so simple, and I think…

  Brian Sarnacki

  February 21, 2011

  Teaching

  learning, teaching