This presentation from THATCamp Florida 2015 discusses a digital re-enactment assignment conducted in my Decade of Decision 1890s course.

1. Digital Flashback
A different take on classroom engagement
2015 THATCamp Florida
Julian C. Chambliss
Department of History
Rollins College

2. Context: Always Connected

3. A
Mediated
Generatio
n

4. Exploring History Using Primary
Sources

5.  Liberal Arts in the 21st
Century
 How can we re-orient
General Education for the
21st Century?
 What is the role for
technology in education?

6. Deeper Engagement
with Digital Pedagogy.

7. EXAMPLE

8. EXAMPLE: COLLOBRATIVE
DIGITAL PEDAGOGICAL
PROJECTS

9. What could we do with Social Media within a framework of collecting
and presenting history in a class project?

10. WINTER PARK’S
HISTORY OFFERS
COMPLEX
NARRATIVES
TO SERVE AS A
FOCAL POINT.

11. THE CASE OF HANNIBAL SQUARE

12. CLASSIC QUESTIONS
OF POST-
RECONSTRUCTION
AMERICA DEFINE
HANNIBAL SQUARE’S
RELATIONSHIP TO
WINTER PARK.

13. Gus C. Hendersen
RE-TELLING THE
HANNIBAL SQUARE
STORY OPENS THE
DOOR TO
FORGOTTEN ACTORS.

14. The assignment ask students
to use social media posts
explore social and political
circumstances linked to the
decision to “detach” Hannibal
Square from the town of Winter
Park in 1892.

15. Assignment

16. Establish the language

17. https://storify.com/jchambliss1/decade-of-decision-1890s-digital-flashback

23. THE STUDENTS
DEMONSTRATED
GREATER
UNDERSTANDING OF
COMMUNITY, STATE, AND
NATIONAL HISTORY.

24. THANK YOU
Dr. Julian C. Chambliss
Email: jchambliss@rollins.edu
Twitter: @JulianChambliss
www.julianchambliss.com