Technology & Teaching
The Goldberg Center hosts a number of professional development initiatives, focused especially on pursuing the best strategies for teaching with new media.
Goldberg Teaching Colloquium: The Goldberg Center sponsors a monthly teaching colloquium, open to faculty, graduate students and staff from the Department and across the University, who discuss best practices and share ideas for effective teaching.Too often, teaching is a solitary activity; faculty and graduate students have few opportunities to discuss their teaching, to share ideas and to ask questions about teaching practice with their colleagues.The Goldberg Teaching Colloquium is intended to "make teaching public.The Goldberg Center maintains a wiki (
http://osuhistory.pbwiki.com/) that includes materials produced during the Colloquium - including "tips for teaching" - which makes the activities of the Colloquium public and widespread.
The Instructional Center: The Goldberg Instructional Center, located in Dulles Hall, serves as the nexus of teaching resources in the Department of History, maintaining the latest technological resources for our instructors.The staff of the Instructional Center offer technology tutorials; a "technology graduate assistant" assists students in our undergraduate classes with new media projects assigned by our faculty. The Instructional Center is open Monday through Friday 8:30 to 4:30.
"Technology and Teaching" speaker series: The Goldberg Center invites a notable speaker to Columbus once a quarter to share their ideas about the effective use of technology in the classroom.
The annual Goldberg Lecture: The Goldberg Center invites a distinguished lecturer to present their views on what constitutes "excellence in teaching." The first Goldberg lecturer will be Chancellor Eric Fingerhut, who will reflect on the role of effective teaching and its importance to the health and vigor of Ohio's system of higher education.
Graduate-level course: "History and New Media": The Goldberg Center Director teaches a course which examines how the practice of history is being transformed through the use of new media, offering an introduction to the changes that these new technologies are bringing to how historians research, write, preserve, represent, and teach the past. The course asks: How do we "design history" in new media environments?Digital technology and new media present the historian with new forms of representation beyond the written article/monograph.This course examines how to design historical representations in these new digital environments.
The Goldberg Multimedia Archive: The Multimedia Archive is an instructional resource for History Department faculty and graduate students, currently offering over 11,000 records. We continually add more records and now have the ability to cross-search several other University digital collections.
