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Students, Tweets, and Virtual Internships, Oh My.

In many ways it is an exciting time to teach African history. Increasingly, students recognize the continent as a potential place for investment, human rights activism, artistic inspiration, or journalistic inquiry. On the other hand, all of my classes fulfill the university’s “global engagement” and “human diversity” curriculum requirements and some students admit they enroll because they have to and… Read more →

The Classroom and the Cloud

  By Peter Alegi   A couple of years ago I took the plunge into online teaching. It changed the way I teach. My classroom in the cloud was a small summer seminar on global soccer for undergraduate history majors. The first challenge was how to deliver content and stimulate discussion without the benefit of physically gathering face to face… Read more →