Tag: Teaching & Learning
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A cohort is a battalion…
“That bad, huh?” the brother said when I slapped down Phil Sabin’s Lost Battles on the table in the campus Starbucks as he joined me for coffee yesterday. Actually, it is not bad at all – far from it. It is a good book, the product of many years of careful scholarship, and a useful…
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Wargame Design Class
I just finished marking the wargame design exercise which I set my War, State & Society class to do as a group exercise for their coursework which was doubly mean because it was (a) not a regular boring old essay so they had to think about it and (b) required them to work in groups…
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Writing Structured Documents
I promised some people yesterday a link to the current version of my handout on writing structured documents, using examples in Microsoft Word. It shows how to use styles rather than simply plastering bold, 24 point on some text – everyone who does not know how to do this already should read it. Â I…
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XML editor for students
I spent this wet morning looking at XML editors for my digital history masters students. XML is essential for managing large collections of historical documents, and is part of a family of markup languages which now run the web, and provide the underlying infrastructure for ‘web services’. Once they understand the principles XML is a…
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November in Cork
Everyone is cold and a bit SAD this week. Many of my 9am class on International Organisations didn’t make it this morning, but I’ve put the class video up on the Moodle LMS for them to download. I’m not sure if this is entirely fair on the people who actually made the effort, but since…
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Everything I know about Astrophysics I learned from gaming…
Gaelcon last weekend gave me a chance to catch up on old friends, play a few games and hear some news – including a new version of an old Sci-Fi game that is being written, which turned my mind to the use of SF Roleplaying games as tools for teaching science. There is quite a…
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Ahmadinajad 1, Pragmatists 2?
I was pleasantly surprised to see an Associated Press photo on the BBC website this morning showing a smiling Ali Larijni, Iran’s pragmatic but now fired nuclear negotiator, chatting to Javier Solana in Rome while his hardline replacemant, Saeed Jalili, stood by looking like something he just ate was disagreed with him. I can’t help…
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Gleanings off the web
Jeremy Black and Francis Fukuyama provide two essential readings for my students on the web this week. Black’s piece on ‘Why teach military history’ is reprinted by Mark Grimsley on his blog – the piece says nothing very new but is a very good start point which covers most of the bases but manages to…
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Slow Night
I finally got the moodle signup screencast uploaded this morning, but it was still very slow. Last night I was only getting upload speeds of 3k/s, which is slower than dialup, and it never got above 10k/s this morning. The video was shot using Camstudio, which is free, and edited down to a reasonable size…
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New Class Videos online
I’ve put up the introductory talk from HI3112, International Organisations, in 3gp format for mobile phones and Quicktime. It is 8mb but is very useful for people considering that option. I’ve also linked in a lecture video in Hi2007 as an example lecture for people thinking about that option for next semester. (also 3gp, 14mb).…
