- who you are;
- key skills and interests, including questions from prior course(s) in the certificate program;
- learning goals for this course;
- professional role you have/hope to have related to teaching and learning history and how this course can help; and
- a photograph of yourself (for blog post)
I am a second career-seeking student in applied history. My concentration focus is USA history before 1877. I have interests in indigenous history, the impact of colonization, and military conflict. Over the last year, I have expanded into medical history, and my digital projects have been about medical history. I am excited about this class as it is about teaching history. I want to develop a digital project on something that appeals to high school or AP USA History students. My last project was very specialized, and since this is a short semester of nine weeks, I may have to be limited to an expansion of some information I learned in that project about women’s suffrage. After getting this degree, the professional role that I hope is to have anything related to history. I am open to almost any career I can find, so I hope this helps expand my teaching knowledge. Questions I have from prior courses are about network word analysis. Is this a common for these projects? And are they helpful for teaching or just primary source analysis in a different way? My skills, I would say what I have learned so far, are Omeka, Audacity, and Davinci Video Editing and sound mixing. Definitely, feel like I need to go back and do some refresher on making maps and some of the intro skills like with Kepler, as I like interactive maps and would like to include it as a learning goal for this class
