East Asian History at 'Berg
Planning ahead And that was the last day of classes for me for this semester. There is still the usual cleaning up: shepherding students through some projects, feedback/grading, managing extension on deadlines and a lot of incompletes (both of which Continue Reading …
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT LAST DAY to request a W (withdrawal) or I (incomplete) is TODAY (April 30) I’m happy to grant you either, and work out a plan with you for an Incomplete. For an Incomplete, you are asked to Continue Reading …
Sneak peek for the second edition of China’s Magical Creatures! The first edition has been openly available for a couple of months now, but the students have been working really hard and I will soon be able to release the Continue Reading …
Good morning, historians of East Asia! Writing tip! I hope the writing is going smoothly! If it isn’t, here is an important task you should check in your assignments for my courses (and for other courses, too), that will get Continue Reading …
Sneak peek: Korean history OER In two of my courses, students are working on Pressbooks chapters for an Open Education Resource. For Korean history, we could have ended up with something different, but the pandemic meant I felt I had Continue Reading …
Good morning, historians of East Asia! You should all be well on your way with final projects and sprucing up blogposts and what not. I also know you have a ton of other assignments for other classes, so I am Continue Reading …
Broken promises, choices made (That sounds more dramatic than it is, I know!) I know I promised yesterday you’d get to hear more about the student projects that will make their way into the Pressbooks we’re creating, but I made Continue Reading …
via GIPHY Last week of the semester! HST107: Check if the chapters are available for peer review, and check if everything you need for your portfolio is available on your blog. Make a plan to ride out the rest of Continue Reading …
Ssssst! The opera has started! Go and watch on the Met Opera website Rossini’s Cenerentola while you can (until Monday 6.30PM EST). It’s fabulous. I find it so easy to lose myself in the funny operas these days. Nothing quite Continue Reading …
無 (nothing?) I have nothing much to write about today. Nothing often has negative connotations in English, but it needn’t be. Like its close cousin “empty”, nothing isn’t necessarily a bad thing: “nothing on the calendar” means space to fill Continue Reading …