From mryle@richmond.edu Thu Sep 11 11:18:43 1997 Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 19:06:21 -0400 From: Martin Ryle To: CONFERENCE@H-NET.MSU.EDU Subject: Writing Up Rousseau Three colleagues and I, with the help of a talented graduate student webmaster, are completing a project that demonstrates how to annotate a text with marginal notes, to track themes through the text, and to evaluate web-based sources related to the text. The text we have annotated, portions of Rousseau's _Discourse on the Origins of Inequality_, will be assigned to every first year student early in the semester as part of our Core Course syllabus. We expect as many as ten of our Core Course faculty, about a third of the total, to integrate this material into their syllabi in the coming year, and we hope that the majority will do so in future years. The Smart Classroom: Integrating New Technology into Classroom Pedagogy I propose to demonstrate the interactive program, either directly from its website or on CD-FOM and to explain how faculty are using it in their classes. Rousseau appears in the syllabus a full two weeks before the conference, which should allow me to incorporate faculty reactions into the presentation. Martin Ryle Professor of History University of Richmond, VA 23173 mryle@richmond.edu (804)289-8340 From mryle@richmond.edu Thu Sep 11 13:14:24 1997 Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 19:06:21 -0400 From: Martin Ryle To: CONFERENCE@H-NET.MSU.EDU Subject: Writing Up Rousseau Three colleagues and I, with the help of a talented graduate student webmaster, are completing a project that demonstrates how to annotate a text with marginal notes, to track themes through the text, and to evaluate web-based sources related to the text. The text we have annotated, portions of Rousseau's _Discourse on the Origins of Inequality_, will be assigned to every first year student early in the semester as part of our Core Course syllabus. We expect as many as ten of our Core Course faculty, about a third of the total, to integrate this material into their syllabi in the coming year, and we hope that the majority will do so in future years. The Smart Classroom: Integrating New Technology into Classroom Pedagogy I propose to demonstrate the interactive program, either directly from its website or on CD-FOM and to explain how faculty are using it in their classes. Rousseau appears in the syllabus a full two weeks before the conference, which should allow me to incorporate faculty reactions into the presentation. Martin Ryle Professor of History University of Richmond, VA 23173 mryle@richmond.edu (804)289-8340