Lecture Collection and Digital Repository

History Lectures

These are lectures, with images, text and audio, that I have created for my online classes.

• On Doing History (all with audio)
  • Mini-Lecture: Our Learning Scheme -- Being a Historian
  • What is a Historical Thesis? Tutorials for History 103, 104, 105, 111
  • Historical Themes Tutorial
• Class Organization and Navigation
  • Lisa's Online History Class (YouTube)
  • Lisa's Guide to Historical Thinking (with audio)
  • Navigation of Lisa's Online Class (with audio)
  • Moodle Tutorial: How to Use My Online Class Website [screencast.com]
  • Moodle Tutorial (Summer 2011) [screencast.com]
  • Class FAQ

Online lectures (2014)

• Studying Western Civ
• Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras
• Mesopotamia and Egypt
• Ancient Peoples
• Ancient Greece
• Hellenistic World
• Roman Republic and Empire
• Late Antiquity
• Early Middle Ages
• High Medieval Expansion: Church, Economy, Technology
• High Medieval Society, Philosophy and Culture
• The Late Middle Ages
• The Renaissance
• Age of Discovery
• The Reformations
• Age of Religious Wars

8-week combinations

• Week 1: Doing History/Paleollithic and Neolithic Eras
  Week 2: Mesopotamia and Egypt/ Ancient Peoples
  Week 3: Ancient Greece/Hellenistic Empire
  Week 4: Roman Republic & Empire/Late Antiquity
  Week 5: The Early Middle Ages/ Medieval Politics, Economics and Technology
  Week 6: Medieval Society, Philosophy and Culture/Late Middle Ages
  Week 7: Renaissance/Exploration and Global Trade
  Week 8: The Reformations/ Religious Wars 

• Egypt and Mespotamia (2008)
• Ancient Greece (2008)
• Hellenistic Empire (2008)
• Roman Empire (2008)
• Roman Empire and Barbarians (2010)
• Four Rivals of Late Antiquity (2010)
• Barbarian Europe (2008)
• Early Middle Ages (2008)
• High Medieval Church and Culture (2008)
• High Medieval Topics: Scholasticism, Architecture, Chivalry (2010)
• High Medieval Economics and Politics (2008)
• Late Middle Ages (2008)
• The Renaissance (2008)
• Age of Discovery (2008)
• The Reformations (2008)

Classroom slide sets (2017)

• Studying Western Civ
• Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras
• Mesopotamia and Egypt
• Ancient Peoples
• Ancient Greece
• Hellenistic Empire
• Roman Empire
• Late Antiquity
• Early Middle Ages
• High Medieval Expansion: Politics, Economy, Technology
• High Medieval Church, Society, Philosophy and Culture
• The Late Middle Ages
• The Renaissance
• Age of Discovery
• The Reformations
• Age of Religious Wars

History 104 Online: Western Civilization since 1648

• The Story So Far (complete)
• 17th century Politics and Culture (complete)
• Science and Sentiment (The Enlightenment) (complete)
• 18th century Economy and Society (complete)
• Political Revolutions (complete)
• Industrialization (complete)
• Socialist and Romantic Response (complete)
• Nineteenth-Century Society (complete)
• Origins of Modern Nationalism (complete)
• Great War and Russian Revolution (complete)
• Twenties and Thirties (complete)
• World War II (complete)
• Cold War (complete)
• Social Revolution (complete)
• Contemporary West (complete)

8-week combinations complete

• Week 1: Story So Far & 17th c. Politics and Culture
• Week 2: Science and the Enlightenment
• Week 3: Political and Industrial Revolutions
• Week 4: Nineteenth-Century Thought and Society
• Week 5: Nationalism, the Great War, and Russian Revolution
• Week 6: Interwar Era and World War II
• Week 7: Cold War and Social Revolution
• Week 8: Contemporary West complete

History 104 on campus

• Science and Sentiment
• World War II (Spring 2010)
• Vimeo: French Rev lecture (February 2010) Lecture from my San Elijo class. Presentation was created using Prezi recorded by ScreenToaster, audio using Phillips mp3 player/recorder, put together with QuickTime Pro and converted to mp4 using VisualHub.

History 105: History of England

• History of England: An Introduction
• Pre-history and Celtic Britain
• Roman and Anglo-Saxon Britain
• Norman England
• The High Middle Ages
• Late Medieval Crisis
• Reformations and Elizabethan England
• Civil War and Revolution
• Science and Enlightenment
• The Eighteenth Century
• Industrialization and Romanticism
• Victorianism and the New Imperialism
• The Great War, 1920s, and Depression
• World War II
• Post-war and Cold War Britain
• 1960s to now

History 110: U.S. History to Reconstruction

8-week (F17) - YouTube (all captioned) and Vimeo Videos

• The Big Picture: History, Global Colonies, Native Americans (YouTube) The Big Picture: History, Global Colonies, Native Americans (Vimeo w captions)
• Salem Witch Trials (YouTube) 2 Salem Witch Trials (Vimeo)
• 3 Colonial America (YouTube) 3 Colonial America (Vimeo w captions)
• 4 American Revolution (YouTube) 4 American Revolution (Vimeo)
• 5 Early Republic (YouTube) 5 Early Republic (Vimeo)
• 6 Era of Expansion(YouTube) 6 Age of Expansion (Vimeo w captions)
• 7 19th century American Culture (Vimeo w captions)
• 8 Civil War and Reconstruction (YouTube) 8 Civil War and Reconstruction (Vimeo w captions)
  

History 111: U.S. History since 1865

• US to 1865
• Reconstruction 1865-1877
• The West to 1900
• Incorporation and Immigration
• Empire
• Progressivism
• The Great War
• The Twenties
• The Depression
• World War II
• Cold War
• The Fifties
• War and Activism
• Inclusion and Exclusion (1974-92)
• The New Millenium (1992-2008)
• Contemporary America (2008-2018)

8-week

• 1 US to 1865/Reconstruction or just start with Reconstruction
• 2 The West and the East: Incorp and Immigration to 1900
• 3 American Empire and Progressivism
• 4 World War I and the 1920s
• 5 Great Depression and World War II
• 6 Early Cold War and the 1950s
• 7 Vietnam War, Activism, Inclusion and Exclusion to 1992
• 8 New Millenium and Contemporary America

History 106: History of Technology

• Introduction
• Paleolithic and Neolithic Culture
• Ancient Mespotamia, Egypt and Levant
• Greece and Hellenistic
• Roman, Byzantine and Arab
• Medieval
• Renaissance and Exploration
• Reformations and Scientific Rev
• Enlightenment and Revolutions
• Industrial Revolution
• Victorian Age
• Into the early 20th c
• WWII and Cold War
• Modern Age: 1960s-1990s
• Contemporary issues
   

 

Audio files - primary sources

• Margaret Sanger: The Case for Birth Control (1917)
• Lois Gibbs: Love Canal

For use with classes

• Meet your instructor: Lisa M Lane (2014)
• A Very Brief History of American Women to 1919 (2014)
• The 1920s: A Celebration of Modernism

Digital Repository: Resources for Online Teaching

Presentation materials (was Slideshare)

• Current Trends in Online Teaching (August 2010, Prezi and audio from workshop, QT format)
• The Weekly Discussion Two-Step (2010)
• Building Class Community with Blogging (2008)
• Interactivity and Learning Styles (2008 Online Teaching Excellence Symposium, San Diego City College)
• Introduction to Online Teaching and Learning at MiraCosta College (2008)
• Interactivity and Learning Styles (2007 Online Best Practices Showcase, Miramar College)

Presentations (YouTube and YouTube conversion)

• Instructor Presence in Online Classes (2010, for VCU Teaching and Learning with Technology Institute)
• Cartoons, Etchings and Engravings from Reconstruction
• Voki for weekly greetings (2013)

See also the Program for Online Teaching for videos and more

Digital Repository: Other Projects

* Late 17th century fashion
Mashup of Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract and Bach's Minuet and Badinerie, to show fashion.
* Hollywood Connected (CCK08 final)
* Lisa's Intro for EC&I 831
* Gay Appreciation Mashup for ds106