1. Some (possibly) relevant projects
at the University of Lincoln
Jamie Wood
jwood@lincoln.ac.uk
For this presentation see: http://www.slideshare.net/woodjamie/

2. Making Digital History: students as partners
in online learning, teaching and research
• HEA Digital Literacies in the Disciplines project at
Lincoln (2013-14)
• Students will use a tool called Xerte to create online
learning objects to teach others about historical topics
– 4 modules (Y1, Y2, MA)
– Individual/ group
– Knowledge and skills: alongside traditional essays; thinking about
form of presentation/ audience; developing technical skills
– Assessment: product or process (reflection)? Criteria?
For more see: http://makingdigitalhistory.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/ (under construction)

3. Social bookmarking and student research
• Diigo
education
edition
• Private,
separate
logins
• Sharing
• Highlighting
• Sticky-noting
• Discussion
board
Jamie Wood, ‘Helping Students to Become Disciplinary Researchers Using Questioning, Social Bookmarking
and Inquiry-Based Learning’, Practice and Evidence of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher
Education, 6.1 (2011): http://www.pestlhe.org.uk/index.php/pestlhe/article/view/98

4. The Goths: barbarians through history?
• New 3rd
year module at Lincoln, Sept 2013
• 2 halves:
– The Goths of late antiquity
– Gothic receptions:
• Reconquista
• Hapsburgs and the New World
• Napoleonic Spain
• Franco
• Goths on film...
• Neo-Gothicism? Neo-late antiquity?