{"id":8248,"date":"2020-04-23T19:05:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T02:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/?p=8248"},"modified":"2025-08-18T12:58:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:58:58","slug":"perusing-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/perusing-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Perusing pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"

I almost forgot, in all the madness, that I am trying an experiment in my History of Technology class. I detailed the idea in my post from July<\/a>. But I hadn’t implemented it till this semester.<\/p>\n

First a review: in every class I teach online, instead of a traditional discussion board, I assign a set of primary source documents. I put these in Perusall<\/a> (using the LTI in Canvas), uploaded as a pdf. Students then can select parts of the text, and annotate it. They can respond to each others annotations, and add images or video to help each other read the material.<\/p>\n

This semester I’ve tried it with images. I put together two sets of images in Microsoft Word, one for images from the Book of Hours of the Duc de Berry (for the Middle Ages), and one for a collection of postcards<\/a> from the early 20th century imagining the world in 2000 (for the turn of the 20th century). I then saved each collection as a pdf, and uploading them into Perusall.<\/p>\n

I’ve just been reviewing the latter. The History of Technology class is always difficult to get talking. The class attracts a wonderful assortment of students, particularly those in computer science or who already work in information technology. They don’t tend to be much for chit-chat, and some of the written articles on technological history don’t interest them. The pictures, however, have created much more participation.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

You can see here that not only did they comment on the images, but that they also replied a lot to each other (the bubble with the number is replies to the comment showing).<\/p>\n

So I’m calling this one a success, and plan to do more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I almost forgot, in all the madness, that I am trying an experiment in my History of Technology class. I detailed the idea in my post from July. But I hadn’t implemented it till this semester. First a review: in every class I teach online, instead of a traditional discussion board, I assign a set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33,38,10,13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion","category-interactivity","category-online-teaching","category-pedagogy","category-educational-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8251,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions\/8251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}