Teaching
History with Technology: This journal is designed to help history
teachers to integrate technology into their classrooms. It attempts
to fulfill this function by providing teachers with models that document
how others have incorporated technology to enhance their students'
learning experiences. New issues of the journal appear online twice
each year. Past issues of the journal are indexed and archived. In
each of the articles, the reader will find a short account of the
objectives of the activity carried out in class. The underlying philosophy
of this structure is that teachers can make most effective and innovative
use of technology by learning how some of their colleagues have made
good use of technology in their classroom.
Teaching
History Online: Teaching History Online is a free monthly email
journal for anyone interested in using the internet to teach or study
history. The journal includes online news, reviews of websites and
articles on ICT history. Members will also be able to submit information
for inclusion in the newsletter. In this way Spartacus Educational
hopes to bring people together who are involved in using the internet
to teach history. You can subscribe to Teaching History Online by
sending an email to IwantHistory@keepAhead.com.
History
Review is a magazine for history students. Published three times
a year (in September, December and March), History Review covers all
the most popular topics that appear in AS and A-level History, and
in first-year college courses. Coverage begins with the Tudors and
Stuarts, and continues into the Cold War. The latest edition includes
articles such as The English Civil War, Nazism and Stalinism, Napoleon
III, Thomas Wolsey, Martin Luther King, Emmeline Pankhurst and top
tips on how to write an essay under exam conditions. The magazine's
archive includes all the articles that have been published since 1995.
History
News Network: George Mason University's History News Network (HNN)
is the only history website on the Internet wholly devoted to current
events. Created in June 2001, the website features articles by historians
about current events and keeps readers up to date about the latest
controversies. The site, which is updated daily with news of breaking
stories, includes an exciting range of articles by historians on both
the left and the right. The HNN website attempts to expose politicians
who misrepresent history; point out bogus analogies; deflate beguiling
myths; remind readers of the irony of history and to remind us all
of the complexity of history.
Reviews
in History is an electronic publication which reviews and reappraises
significant work in all fields of historical interest, covering the
principal areas of the subject as taught in institutions of higher
education. Reviews covers publications ranging in time from the Middle
Ages to the present date. The reviews are longer than usual (2,000
- 3,000 words) and are sent in the first instance to the author who
is offered a right of reply to be circulated with the review. New
information technology provides an opportunity to raise standards
of reviews for historical scholarship, to draw major works of interpretation
to the attention of historians and to promote scholarly debate as
soon as possible after the publication of a book. The Reviews in History
site also includes Reappraisals in History, Review Articles, and Continuous
Discourse, an on-going debate on the relationship between history
and postmodernism.
History
in Focus is a new occasional series taking a thematic approach
to history. Each issue is designed to provide an introduction to the
chosen topic and to help stimulate interest and debate. The series
will concentrate on highlighting books, reviews, websites and conferences
that relate to the theme, in order to provide a quality assured information
resource for learning and teaching. The current issue concentrates
on medical history and has articles on Mental Health, Suicide, Plagues,
Epidemics and Contagion, Sexual Health and Fertility, Public Health
and Epidemic Disease in London.
History
Reading Room: This BBC website provides a collection of articles
on history. Recent additions include Thomas Paine (John Belchem),
Queen Victoria's Childhood (Lynne Vallone), The Levellers (Tony Benn),
The Lady of the Lamp (Mark Bostridge), The Battle of Britain (Chris
Bellamy), Was the American Revolution Inevitable? (Francis Cogliano),
The Personality of Charles I (Richard Crust) and British Revolution
in the Early 19th Century: How Close? (Eric Evans).
Journal
for Multi-Media History: The website journal is produced by the
history department of the University at Albany. The idea behind the
journal is to present and disseminate historical multimedia projects
as discrete electronic journal articles. It also attempts to provide
a centralized forum where scholars, students, and the public could
read, view, and hear distinguished multimedia research in all fields
of history, or enjoy reviews that offered audio and video samples
from the works reviewed.
ICT
History: This section of Andrew Field's website offers explanations
and articles on use of ICT within history. All have been written by
history teachers in the spirit of sharing good practice and ideas.
It is hoped that this section will continue to develop further, and
submissions for future case studies will be very gratefully received.
Currently the website includes examples of how PowerPoint and Digital
Projectors have been used in the classroom.
Teaching
History is the U.K's leading professional journal for history
teachers and boasts a growing international readership. Trainee teachers
use it extensively on their courses, mentors use it to improve their
practice, heads of history use it to develop the thinking and practice
of the department. Above all, ordinary history teachers use it to
evaluate and extend their own teaching quality. Teaching History doesn't
shirk the big isses and big debate, but it links these to everyday,
practical concerns. You won't find uncritical 'how to do it' pieces,
as though prescriptions received from on high were automatically right,
but you will find plenty of varied and realistic examples from different
types of teachers.
ActiveHistory:
Russell Tarr is one of Britain's leading figures in the area of online
learning. These articles originally appeared in the Times Educational
Supplement and the History Review and have now been made available
via his ActiveHistory website. This includes Playing Devil's Advocate,
Decision Making Games in the History Classroom, Work with the Web,
Straight from the Sources' Mouth, The Past in Pictures, The Rise and
Fall of Cardinal Wolsey, The Radical Reformers and The Italian Wars
(1494-1516).
History
Matters: Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S.
History courses. This site serves as a gateway to web resources and
offers useful materials for teaching US history. The website includes
Many Pasts (primary documents): Making Sense of Evidence (guides for
analyzing primary sources); Past Meets Present (articles and resources
that link the past with current ideas and events); Reference Desk
(links to resources); Digital Blackboard (teaching assignments using
web resources): Students as Historians (examples of student work on
the web) and Secrets of Great Historians (distinguished teachers share
their strategies and techniques).
History
Student Online: Chris Turner (University College London) is the
man behind History Student Online. He aims to promote scholarly discussion
through forums and newsletters. History Student Online also accepts
submissions for its own electronic journal, containing contributions
from outstanding students and professional academics alike. It also
features quizzes, reviews and an event calendar which anybody can
add to, showing seminars, conferences and events happening around
the world.
History
Teacher Education Network: HTEN (The History Teacher Education
Network in the United Kingdom) was established to promote the development
of history teacher education. It also attempts to forge links and
increase communication between history teacher educators in the UK
and internationally and to give history teacher education a focus
and an effective public voice and especially to establish links with
other such associations to monitor, comment on and contribute to developments
in the curriculum in history.
Internet
Archaeology is a not-for-profit academic electronic journal, published
by the Council for British Archaeology and hosted by the Department
of Archaeology at the University of York. Internet Archaeology publishes
an international range of research articles of a high academic standing
which also try to utilise the potential of electronic publication.
Articles regularly contain fully searchable databases to analyse online;
full-colour, interactive images, plans and sections; video footage;
virtual reality models and give access to related digital archive
material.
History
Workshop Journal: Since its launch in 1976, History Workshop Journal
has become one of the world's leading historical journals. Its cutting-edge
scholarship, accessible writing, and lively engagement with contemporary
concerns continues to win it widespread acclaim from both academic
and general audiences. The current edition includes articles such
as Female Soldiers and the Battle of the Sexes in France (David Hopkin),
Cancer Therapy and Military Cold-War Research (Gerald Kutcher), Niall
Ferguson's Imperial Passion (Jon Wilson), Canada: a People's History
(Joe Friesen) and The Gangs of New York: the Mean Streets in History
(Daniel J. Walkowitz).
New
Perspective: This rich, varied and exciting journal is specially
published for today's teachers and students of AS/A Modern History.
Founded by the editor of the first ever A-Level History journal, it
has evolved to meet the present needs of teachers and students At
the core of every issue are six topic articles, high-quality contributions
by distinguished authors specially chosen and prepared for use by
teachers and students at home or in the classroom and ingenuously
structured to foster student progress to top grades. This structure
includes a newspaper-type heading to capture attention, followed by
a concise summary of the article and then ‘questions to consider’.
Articles are split into sections by the use of summative subheadings
and orientation is furthered by a timeline. Words and concepts are
explained in order to make good possible difficulties with English.
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