{"id":527,"date":"2009-07-23T22:03:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T03:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/?p=527"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:59:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:59:14","slug":"online-image-resources-pedagogy-and-geeky-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2009\/07\/online-image-resources-pedagogy-and-geeky-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Image Resources: Pedagogy and Geeky Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my projects this summer has to do with the use of images in history classes: I’m trying to improve my teaching, and perhaps help others, by scanning pictures1<\/a><\/sup> and identifying online sources for good images, as well as trying to figure out ways to do more with the images in the classroom. There’s been some great discussion of powerpoint and images in the classroom at Edge of the American West<\/i> over the last<\/a> week<\/a>, the upshot of which is that images don’t really help all that much, unless you use them well. Not a surprising result, but the fact is that I use images sparingly in the classroom (and have never used powerpoint) because my training — and natural talents, I think — is heavily textual. I love a good map or chart, and I do use art in class both for cultural history and as historical documentation, but not enough. It’s not about “appealing to visual learners” as much as it is my belief that visual and physical materials are going to be increasingly important in historical analysis, both as sources and as forms of presentation. This isn’t cutting edge theory, or at least it shouldn’t be.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that’s by way of preface for some of the stuff I hope to be posting here2<\/a><\/sup> over the next few months: images from my collection, and discussions of what they might mean, historically and pedagogically; other resources for visual materials and commentary on potential uses; links to other discussions of visual analysis<\/a>; that sort of thing.<\/p>\n

So, here’s my first collection of links:
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