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Building a Digital Portfolio with Art History Graduate Students
For two weeks in July, RRCHNM hosted an enthusiastic group of 20 art history graduate students for an intensive digital humanities training institute funded by the Getty Foundation. Students were selected for Building a Digital Portfolio from a competitive pool of international applicants. The cohor
RRCHNM Goes to Europe for WWII Field Study
Last month, staff from National History Day and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media led 18 middle and high school teachers on a two-week field study of WWII in Northern Europe. This trip is part of Understanding Sacrifice, an 18-month program of study, research, and lesson plan devel
RRCHNM Receives 2 NEH Grants to Offer Summer Institutes in 2016
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded two grants to the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media to fund professional development opportunities next summer. With this generous support, Sharon Leon and Sheila Brennan will organize and host, “Doing Digital History 2016,” an
Applications Open for Understanding Sacrifice WWII Teacher Institute
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media is pleased to announce that applications are open for the 2015-2016 Understanding Sacrifice WWII Teacher Institute held in partnership with National History Day (NHD) and the American Battle Monument Commission (ABMC). Teachers from all disciplines
WWII Teacher Professional Development Website Goes Live
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) is proud to announce the launch of Understanding Sacrifice (abmceducation.org/understandingsacrifice). Sponsored by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC), this website is part of an 18-month professional developmen
Will this be on the Test?
In online courses, as with face-to-face courses, assessing learning is a central issue. In a recently published book chapter, CHNM staff contributed to this discussion based on their experiences developing and teaching online courses for practicing teachers. In “How We Learned to Drop the Quiz: W
Growing the Fields
Last summer, Sharon Leon and I (Sheila Brennan) led a team at RRCHNM with the challenging goal of increasing capacity within the fields of history and art history for doing digital work. We started with novices and invited them to learn with us for two weeks last summer. At the end, those digital no
Teaching Hidden History
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media is developing a new course, Teaching Hidden History, with funding from 4-VA, an initiative dedicated to expanding educational opportunities and increasing collaborative research among Virginia universities. A hybrid course, Teaching Hidden History
Histories of the National Mall Wins Outstanding Public History Award
The National Council on Public History selected Histories of the National Mall as the winner of the 2015 Outstanding Public History Award. The award is presented each year for work that contributes to a broader public reflection and appreciation of the past or that serves as a model of professional
Getty Foundation Funds Institute for Art History Graduate Students at RRCHNM
We are thrilled to announce that the Getty Foundation awarded a second grant to the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media to organize and run another summer institute in digital art history. This year, the Getty Foundation asked us to focus on graduate students in Masters and Doctoral prog