ELI Session: Digital Histories for the Digital Age – How Do We Teach Writing Now?

The digital environment has had an immense effect on American society, learning, and education: we have more sources available at our fingertips than any previous generation. Teaching and learning with these new sources, however, has been a challenging transition. Students are confronted with an ocean of digital objects and need skills to navigate the World Wide Web and numerous proprietary databases. This presentation by William G. Thomas, III, the John and Catherine Angle Professor in the Humanities, Department of History at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, looks at the current digital environment that humanities faculty face in their teaching and explores new tools that might support collaborative writing and digital skills development for students.

This podcast was recorded at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2010 Annual Meeting. Streaming video of this session is also available.