You have joined H-Teach, an international electronic discussion group run by H-Net, Humanities On-Line, to provide a forum discussing teaching history and related fields at the college level. Subscription is free, and subscribers will automatically receive messages in their computer mailboxes. Messages can be saved, discarded, copied, printed out, or relayed to someone else. It is like a daily newsletter or an ongoing, moderated "roundtable" discussion.
The primary purpose of H-Teach is to enable communication about teaching approaches, methods, problems, and resources. H-Teach facilitates discussion on the wide range of policy issues involved in teaching history. H-Teach is particularly interested in methods of teaching history to graduate and undergraduate students in diverse settings. Special attention is paid to use of new technologies in and outside of the classroom. H-Teach also provides a forum for exchange of information about specific teaching tools including texts, videos, exams, and assignments.
H-Teach is co-edited by Professor Sara Tucker of Washburn University or Professor Bob Wheeler of Cleveland State University and Professor Kelly A. Woestman of Pittsburg State. H-Teach has an editorial board broadly representative of the state of scholarship.
1. H-TEACH FEATURES DIALOGUES IN THE DISCIPLINE:
H-Teach publishes syllabi, outlines, handouts, bibliographies, guides to term papers, listings of new sources, library catalogs and archives, and reports on new software, data sets and cd-roms. H-Teach also posts announcements of conferences, fellowships, and jobs. Subscribers write in with questions, comments, and reports. H-Teach carries announcements from publishers of new books, and commissions book reviews. H-Teach actively seeks participation by textbook publishers, whose editors can join with text authors to shape the next edition of the textbook teachers will be using.
2. CONTRIBUTIONS TO H-TEACH:
Contributions can be short questions or long documents. Please
sign your name and email address to each contribution (we will
add the name/address otherwise.) To send them, use one of the
following:
If you use a word processor like Word Perfect or Microsoft
Word, save the document as a plain ASCII (or "text" or
"dos") file. Upload it to your mainframe (your departmental
guru will explain how) and use your e-mail system to send
it to H-Teach. Please do NOT send binary files or uunencoded
Macintosh files.
3. A MODERATED LIST
H-Teach is moderated to filter out extraneous messages
(like requests for subscription) and items that do not belong
on H-Teach. They may belong somewhere else, or in the judgment
of the moderators they do not aid the scholarly dialogue. The
editor will not alter the meaning of a message, but will, if
necessary, add name and e-address, break very long paragraphs into smaller
units, correct typos, and modify the subject line of a post.
The mailing addresses of the moderators are:
Sara Tucker
Bob Wheeler
Kelly A. Woestman
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6. H-TEACH EDITORIAL BOARD
H-Net is a an international initiative
to assist humanists to go on-line, using their personal computers. H-Net
is operated on a voluntary basis by hundreds of
scholars, principally in the United States, but also in many
other countries. H-Net has financial support from the National
Endowment for the Humanities of the U.S., and is hosted by Michigan State University.
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Department of History
Washburn University
Topeka, Kansas 66621
FAX: 913-231-1084
PHONE: 913-231-1010 x1319
Department of History
CB2050
Cleveland State University
Euclid and 24th
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
FAX: 216-687-9201
PHONE: 216-687-3513
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