1. Katherine Meyer & Dr. Joseph Cronin

2. Mandatory course in the Masters in Higher Education Administration program Course was designed to introduce the major ideas and higher education innovations from ancient times to the present To find the course website please Google “BU Joe Cronin” What you will learn today is…

3. How by using a website and blog, a series of dynamic guest speakers (not lecturers), and field trips: A history class, with such a dry title as to summon a yawn, became a vibrant learning environment.

4. We met in the summer to plan Katherine learned all about websites and blogs from Mia Bott We cleaned up the site from the previous year We added the new syllabus We recruited students to take notes for the website, which helped other students who traveled for work or got sick stay up to date

5. Syllabus Bibliographies Class notes Class handouts Exemplary papers Newspaper articles Homework assignments PowerPoint presentations by guest speakers

6. Class notes by students uploaded as PDFs News articles students emailed to us Class handouts requested by students to help study for final exam Homework assignments (e.g., watching a video online; reading articles by guest speakers)

7. The blog portion of the class is not as utilized as it could be, which will be remedied in fall 2010. In an effort to integrate the blog more, we will have students post online each week three questions they have after doing the required reading. Then they will respond to at least two questions posed by their classmates. This will help stimulate an online discussion to accompany the in-class discussion. Have students create their own blog as part of the course to document their learning of history through technology.